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Places To Sell Handmade Crafts

When selling handmade crafts online, most people instantly think of etsy.com or artfire.com. Both are absolutely great places to set up an online handmade craft shop. But simply creating a shop won't get your handmade crafts noticed by shoppers or the sales you want.

You must use effective marketing techniques that will drive targeted traffic to your shop. Sounds easy right! Well online marketing isn't as easy as it may sounds. There are a variety of techniques, search engine optimization, link building, pay-per-click campaigns, social networking, email campaigns and the list goes on and on.

Some handmade artists believe that simply having a blog where they blog about their handmade crafts will get them noticed. And unfortunately blogging doesn't always get you noticed either.

I actually takes a combination of all of the online marketing techniques above to get your online handmade craft shop noticed. These techniques also require a lot of time and some require a good deal of money. I know this because I manage the online marketing campaign for HandmadeCraftShow.com, an online virtual craft show that markets handmade artists and their online shops.

Using a variety of online marketing techniques we have been able to launch a very aggressive marketing campaign that has taken us to 0 to 17,000 unique visitors per month. As the popularity of our site grows we are expecting that number to soon double and then triple.

HandmadeCraftShow.com has one main focus and that is to market handmade crafts.  Our unique setup is different from other virtual craft shows and handmade artists and buyers have taken noticed. New handmade artists are always adding their online shops because they understand that this is the easiest and most affordable way to market their online shops.

If you are needing visitors to your online shop then I encourage you to join our virtual craft show and let us do the marketing for you. This way you can stay focus on your day job or adding more handmade craft items to your shop.

Top Places To Sell Handmade Crafts Online

• Etsy.com
• Artfire.com

Two Great Online Venues To Market Handmade

• HandmadeCraftShow.com – http://handmadecraftshow.com
• WorldOfHandmade.com – http://worldofhandmade.com

Top Places To Network With Other Handmade Artists

• The Jewelry Artist Network – http://jewelryartistnetwork.ning.com
• The Handmade Artist Hangout – http://handmadecraftshow.ning.com

About the Author

HandmadeCraftShow.com is an online virtual craft show. We understand that selling crafts online can be a very daunting task. That is why HandmadeCraftShow.com works very hard marketing our craft show and increasing the online exposure of our handmade craft artists.

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