Craft fairs, selling online and making a go of it

18 replies since 21st June 2011 • Last reply 21st June 2011

Reply #16:

Competitions/giveaways are a great way to promote yourself. I ran one on facebook a couple of months ago and got over 200 entries. Make sure you make one of your conditions of your giveaway/competition that people need to visit your shop and tell you their favourite item or something that drives people to look/like/follow your shop.

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Reply #17:

Im following this thread too Tongue
I recently just started to try & sell my crafts/jewelries. I do it mostly through fb but it's so hard to stay organized & keep track of who's ordering what, so I made a notebook tracking the name, date, description of the item, price & whether or not they paid it & if they received it yet.

Then I put finished items in a little box.

What Dragoness posted about the competition - we just did one recently with a popular fashion blogger here & the winner got some necklaces & hand harnesses from me HappyI got so many new likes and orders from it with more than 100 entries :]

It's hard though since I'm not always confident about all of my products and I tend to underprice them :/

I wish you the best!!!

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Reply #18:

This was a great thread! I have sold jewelry by word of mouth only. I just opened an Etsy store and haven't got anything up yet.This had so much good info! Thanks!

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Reply #19:

i recently started my own small busness doing the same thing
1:know your audence
2:dont short change yourself i was charging only a few dollars for my stuff and i wasnt making any money. people will always pay ATLEAST $3 more than a factory made retail version
3: never pay for a craft/sales show that yo wont make back the cost for a booth by selling atleast 2 of your items
4: get to know artists in your area. split the cost of booths, feed off of eachother
5: spend the money on nice busness cards
6: dont be afraid to traid merchandice wich other people at the show. more than once have i hade someone say they saw my stuff on someone at anothe booth. and your name will get out
7:FACEBOOK !!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you need more help or want to buy unique hand made beeds message me on my site http://www.facebook.com/GnotJustGnomes

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