resources for selling successfully online
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Resources for running your business
- Etsy Storque
- Fabulous resources from the folks who know best.
- Modish Biz Tips
- Great new blog from Modish with lots of handmade business tips.
- Modish Biz Tips: Submitting your Work to Blogs
- Modish has compiled an amazing list of blogs you can submit your work to, along with tips on how to approach bloggers about your work.
- BAKERY blog
- Wonderful resource for tips and tutorials on running and promoting your business.
- design*sponge :: biz ladies column
- Great business advice column, updated every Tuesday afternoon.
- Try Handmade :: Promote Your Handmade Products
- An incredible list of links to venues and resources for crafters, much of which was used as an inspiration for this page.
- Hello Craft
- Hosts of the East Coast Crafting Conference, The Summit of Awesome.
social networks just for crafters
tips & tutorials
- Handmadeology
- Great tips and articles about selling online.
- Craft Boom
- A blog about marketing an art & craft business online.
- Indie5Collective
- Video tutorials!
- Handmade Marketing
- Amazing articles about selling online!
- Etsy Seller Handbook
- The ins and outs of selling on Etsy.
- Starting a Shop
- A beginner's guide to starting a shop on Etsy.
- Feature-Friendly Photos
- Great advice on shooting product photos from Etsy.
- Pimp Your Shop
- This is a great article from Etsy. The title says it all.
sell your craft: venues
These sites specialize in handmade items and allow you to list your items and sell using their shopping cart and check-out features. Each site has a different fee structure, often some combination of a monthly rate, listing fee and sales commission. For a breakdown of all the fees on these sites, check out Try Handmade.
- Etsy
- Etsy is the biggest of the handmade marketplaces, meaning lots of traffic but lots of competition.
- 1000 Markets
- 1000 markets is still in Beta. You can join different smaller "markets" within the site related to the goods you make, making it easier for shoppers to find you.
- Supermarket
- Supermarket is a very clean, modern, curated marketplace.
- ArtFire
- Artfire is one of the newer handmade marketplaces, with a very active community.
- Dawanda
- Dawanda is a European handmade marketplace, with multiple options for language and currency for listings.
- Art Garage Sale
- Art Garage sale is very new to the scene, just having launched in early 2009.
- Folksy
- Folksy is a UK-based handmade marketplace.
- FuzzB
- iCraft
- Made It Myself
- Pink Doodle
- Ruby Lane
- Shop Handmade
- Smashing Darling
- WiNKELF
- Zibbet
- Big Cartel
- Shopify
- eBay
- Silk Fair
These are customizable e-commerce sites that look like your very own shop, but don't have the handmade community or browsing tools of the other sites above.
These marketplace sites are not specific to handmade items.
promote your craft: showcases
These sites allow you to showcase your work on a smaller or more targeted site, often for a monthly fee. Sales are not completed through the site itself, rather shoppers are often linked to one of the venues above to complete their purchases.
- cosa verde
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- Poppytalk
- Trunkt
- Paper N Stitch
Resources compiled by cosa verde, with amazing help from Danielle from Etsy, and inspired by the awesome resource list at Try Handmade.
If you have suggestions for other resources, please contact us so we can add them to the list!
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