Craft Seller Resources – Yaami Handmade

When HandmadeMarketing.org heard about Yaami Handmade, we were interested in learning more about the site’s web resources for handmade sells such as sales graphs, top sellers, and Etsy.com Front Page archive.

The Yaami team thinks the biggest challenge facing handmade sellers online is finding effective ways to promote handmade items.  “Promoting handmade at a reasonable price  is one of the most lacking. There are solutions out there but you have to be aware of them,” they said.

The team says that selling handmade online isn’t easy, and that Yaami aims to make it easier with tools, statistics, and promotional solutions.  “If you sell handmade items online, Yaami can help,” they said.

“We’re always trying to add more ways to help out Etsy sellers,” Yaami’s team told us.  “Yaami Handmade is a community of buyers and sellers of handmade creations. We provide ways to help sellers promote their shops as well as tools to help in the running of their shop.”

“Yaami’s primary goal is to help shops get the word out about their handmade items and to make it easier for buyers to find neat handmade items,” they said.  “We realized there was a need for more promotional solutions and more support tools for sellers of handmade items – and so Yaami.com was born.”

Currently, the team told HandmadeMarketing.org the site’s focus is on providing promotional solutions and helpful tools to sellers.  “However, we want to target handmade buyers too.  We’re currently creating exciting new features that will have a buyer focus,” they said.

The Yaami.com teams is always thinking of new ideas to help promote handmade items online.  “With new site features currently in development and more ideas to come, we hope that we can make a big difference to the handmade community, supporting all shops – big and small,” the Yaami team told HandmadeMarketing.org.

The work in progress that made our HandmadeMarketing.org editors most excited was the virtual handmade market.  “We’re currently working on a virtual handmade market that will be very different to any other virtual market on the web. It will be virtual but with more of a “real world” view,” they said.

We were also happy to hear that Yaami.com strives to provide helpful tools and promotional solutions for all handmade sellers.  “Right now we provide tools for Etsy sellers, but we plan to offer tools for sellers at other sites too – such as ArtFire,” the team told us.

Yaami.com is centered around promotional solutions for sellers.  “This is the area we would like to focus on the most,” they explained.  “Getting the word out about your items can be extremely difficult.  We would like to make it easier – and more cost effective.”

Yaami’s Shop Directory is one way to promote handmade sellers.  The directory lists handmade shops from all over the web.   “Adding your shop to the directory is free and you get a “handmade profile” for your shop where you can display a bio, tags and a list of links such as your Etsy shop, Artfire studio, website, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.” the Yaami team explained.

Another great feature offered to sells at Yaami.com are the “Free Plugs“.  “Submit an item and we’ll plug it for you, free, on Yaami.com (and soon – other sites too!),” they explain.  “It’s as easy as pasting the link to your Etsy or Artfire item and clicking submit.”

You can also promote using Yaami’s “Shoutbox” feature.  “Similar to a plug but you “shout” anything handmade related via Twitter,” they told HandmadeMarketing.org.  “Create a Tweet referencing @YaamiHandmade and we’ll display it on our home and Shoutbox pages.”

Yaami also provides exciting and useful tools for Etsy.com sellers.  By utilizing the shop statistics feature, Etsy sellers can check out their Etsy shop stats.  These statistics include day-to-day sales graphs, who hearts your shop/items, and an overall summary of your Etsy shop.

Sellers can show-off their Etsy stats (such as total hearts, total items, sold items) on their website or blog simply by pasting a small piece of HTML code into their page.  This is Yaami’s gadgets and badges feature.  There are a number of colors and designs available to choose from, allowing for a customized look.

Yaami also reports a list of top sellers from Etsy.com.  “This list is great way to become inspired by some of Etsy’s most successful sellers,” the team said.

Yaami offers an archive of Etsy’s Front Page Treasury items.  “Currently you can only go back-in-time as far as the last 24 hours but we’ll soon allow you to go further back in time,” they said.  “We’ll also soon offer email notifications – so if your items appear on Etsy’s FrontPpage, we can let you know.”

The team suggests sellers remain educated regarding all the different ways to promote craft and handmade items.  “HandmadeMarketing.org is a great way to keep up-to-date,” they said.  “Try out all the different promotional solutions, track the results with web stats (such as Google Analytics) and focus on the solutions that work for you.“

Have you used Yaami.com to help you sell handmade?  What do you think of the site?  What other web resources help you promote your Etsy shop?

Tell us your tips for promoting crafts online!   If our editors publish you ideas, we’ll link to your shop, website, or blog as the source of the wonderful information.  Submit  your ideas under our “Join” tab.