Comments on: Beat a Boring Blog – Blog Tips http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/ You can sell handmade, here's how. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:24:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Crafty Connections- August 10th « creativeapples fine art prints and photo greeting cards http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2372 Crafty Connections- August 10th « creativeapples fine art prints and photo greeting cards Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:03:57 +0000 http://handmademarketing.org/?p=1529#comment-2372 [...] a boring blog http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/ Ideas to spice up your [...] [...] a boring blog http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/ Ideas to spice up your [...]

]]> By: tegan http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1153 tegan Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:27:21 +0000 http://handmademarketing.org/?p=1529#comment-1153 i came across this blogger a while back when she contacted me for a feature. Talk about a blog focus! Her blog is called Resewater http://resweater.blogspot.com/ and she focuses solely on recycled wool. She buys and resells wool sweaters from thrifting, and offers a regular day to show off her latest finds (Sweater Sunday). Then, all week she finds and features different handmade crafters that work with recycled wool. Genius!!! i came across this blogger a while back when she contacted me for a feature. Talk about a blog focus! Her blog is called Resewater http://resweater.blogspot.com/
and she focuses solely on recycled wool. She buys and resells wool sweaters from thrifting, and offers a regular day to show off her latest finds (Sweater Sunday). Then, all week she finds and features different handmade crafters that work with recycled wool. Genius!!!

]]> By: Michelle http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Michelle Thu, 28 May 2009 00:28:47 +0000 http://handmademarketing.org/?p=1529#comment-926 I have often pondered this topic and have already integrated some of the ideas you suggested, one being giveaways. I shopped around and found some of my favorite handmade shops and asked if they would like to offer a giveaway on my blog. The 2nd Wednesday of every month a new shop owner is featured. I also have created 2 buttons titled "We Likey" and "Handy's." The We Likey button keeps stock of places my husband and I love and that we hope others will try and the Handy's button categorizes posts from other bloggers that I know I will need or want to come back to in the future. I hope that these buttons will be just as useful to others as they are to me. I then sporadically write to other bloggers, shop owners, or artists that inspire me and ask if they would like to answer a panel of questions. I post the interview on my blog for others to learn from and become inspired by as well. Lastly I took the step of helping spread shop love further by collecting a large list of shop owners (with their permission of course) and emailed the list out to all of my contacts and then emailed the list to all of the shop owners who joined in on the endeavor so that they could email it out to all of their contacts. We all helped each other spread word about our blogs and shops. Thanks for posting a much needed article. We're all looking for ways to improve our blogs and extend our readership! I have often pondered this topic and have already integrated some of the ideas you suggested, one being giveaways. I shopped around and found some of my favorite handmade shops and asked if they would like to offer a giveaway on my blog. The 2nd Wednesday of every month a new shop owner is featured.
I also have created 2 buttons titled “We Likey” and “Handy’s.” The We Likey button keeps stock of places my husband and I love and that we hope others will try and the Handy’s button categorizes posts from other bloggers that I know I will need or want to come back to in the future. I hope that these buttons will be just as useful to others as they are to me.
I then sporadically write to other bloggers, shop owners, or artists that inspire me and ask if they would like to answer a panel of questions. I post the interview on my blog for others to learn from and become inspired by as well.
Lastly I took the step of helping spread shop love further by collecting a large list of shop owners (with their permission of course) and emailed the list out to all of my contacts and then emailed the list to all of the shop owners who joined in on the endeavor so that they could email it out to all of their contacts. We all helped each other spread word about our blogs and shops.
Thanks for posting a much needed article. We’re all looking for ways to improve our blogs and extend our readership!

]]> By: Susana http://handmademarketing.org/what-makes-a-good-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-808 Susana Tue, 05 May 2009 17:17:20 +0000 http://handmademarketing.org/?p=1529#comment-808 Great article, I definitely will be doing some of these things, I am a newvy at blogging and anything is of great help just like this great post! Thanks, Great article, I definitely will be doing some of these things, I am a newvy at blogging and anything is of great help just like this great post!

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