Using the web-- especially for crafters and DiYers. Sell your stuff online!
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You make cool stuff. People want to buy it. We want to help you make those sales. Crafters, get online!
You're a visonary. You slave away solo creating masterpieces. Guess what? The get famous fairy isn't going to knock on your door.
You've got to knock down their door.
We're 4Emphasis, a teensy Seattle-based web development/design firm that specializes in building pages for artists, writers, musicians, and other creatives, as well as small business owners.
Creative people are often the most reluctant to toot their horns. Let us help you to not only tune that horn, but bring in the whole orchestra.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobilina/245677119/
You've got to knock down their door.
We're 4Emphasis, a teensy Seattle-based web development/design firm that specializes in building pages for artists, writers, musicians, and other creatives, as well as small business owners.
Creative people are often the most reluctant to toot their horns. Let us help you to not only tune that horn, but bring in the whole orchestra.
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobilina/245677119/
Why you need the web
You crafty thing, you
Indie crafters, you've sold at local farmers markets and holiday fairs, but you are ready to take your inventory nationwide...or even international.
This is a call to all makers--wake up and smell the web, darlings. You've got to get savvy about pushing yourself into cyberspace. A polished website with personality and functionality and a marketing plan with savoir-faire are no longer optional. But getting on target--on a budget--and without it cutting into your creative time can be overwhelming (to say the least).
We'd love to help you navigate the cyberjungle, but in case you want to brave it alone, you indie spirit you--we've tried to gather here what we consider the best of the breed for you to begin with. Cut through the baloney and crap--below are what we tell our family and friends when they ask us.
This is a call to all makers--wake up and smell the web, darlings. You've got to get savvy about pushing yourself into cyberspace. A polished website with personality and functionality and a marketing plan with savoir-faire are no longer optional. But getting on target--on a budget--and without it cutting into your creative time can be overwhelming (to say the least).
We'd love to help you navigate the cyberjungle, but in case you want to brave it alone, you indie spirit you--we've tried to gather here what we consider the best of the breed for you to begin with. Cut through the baloney and crap--below are what we tell our family and friends when they ask us.
We're on Etsy
Web that makes you w00t
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Resources you've got to know about...
...sell your wares and sing your praises
- Etsy
- Etsy is *the* online marketplace for buying & selling all things handmade.
- Craft Revolution
- Craft Revolution is restoring the awareness and appreciation of crafts in today's world by promoting them, and the talented people who create them, as high-value, desirable alternatives to the mundane. Check out their PR listings
- Craftster
- Craftster.org is one of the most active crafting communities. Check out their forums
- Shana Logic
- This slick boutique sells crafted items from hand-picked vendors
- I shop indie
- Get you work seen by more buyers in this all-indie marketplace
- LunaCraft
- Promote your craft products, craft business, craft store, craft website or blog
- Modish blog
- Great tip on marketing and bringing in customers
More contacts to help you on the way
- The switchboards
- Forum for creative independent business women to talk shop, with discussion board, articles gallery, and frequently asked questions
- The buy handmade pledge
- Sign the pledge to buy handmade and encourage others to do so
- Indie craft shows
- A directory of places to sell your wares f2f
- PayPal
- The number one way to accept payments for your goods
- Authorize
- Accept credit card and electronic check payments quickly and affordably
- Project Wonderful
- It really is a wonderful project, indeed--Project Wonderful is an online advertising broker with an innovative model that brings fairness, transparency, and profitability to the advertising process.
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