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Re: ART AND CRAFTS - WAYS TO ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR WORK
3/20/2007 3:41:48 AM

There may be some on this forum that would like to have their own web site but do have have a shopping cart.  My site did not come with a shoppoing cart either.  I use Mals-e.  I have used this cart before and really like it.  It's free and easy to set up.  Check it out at http://www.mals-e.com You can use paypal with it or I have used propay with it also.  Propay is another version of a merchant account without all of the monthly fees of a regular merchant account.  You can accept credit cards, you just have to manually enter the credit card numbers.  It's not automatic.  The lowest costing version is $34.95 a year. http://www.propay.com

If you are really challenged with web sites, there's always Etsy, the place for all things homemade, http://www.etsy.com.  It's free to join and there's a small fee for posting an item, 20 cents.  Then there's a small fee when an item is sold, just like on ebay.

I hope this is useful.

Jenean

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Re: ART AND CRAFTS - WAYS TO ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR WORK
3/20/2007 7:06:53 AM
Hi Jenean,

Thanks for your post on shopping carts.  It is very important for any product seller to have an immediate way for a customer to buy, especially for art and craft items. A lot fo sales can be lost if a potential customer has to do too much work to purchase the item of their choice.

 You have motivated me to install the one that came with my web site - having been a little slow on this! lol I had better take my own advice!

The Etsy site looks good to - it has a very high page ranking on the search engines - which can only help us.

Thanks for these very useful additions to the forum

Saludos
Jenny



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Re: ART AND CRAFTS - WAYS TO ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR WORK
3/20/2007 7:17:51 AM
Hi All Artists, Artisans and Crafters,

Forum participation is another excellent way to advertise arts and crafts work - just the same as any other kind of business.  And is one often overlooked by us creative people.

It is of course important that the content of the posts is original (as opposed to repetitive ads)  - they carry your signature with your business link,  and the serach engines do pick them up and they are a good source of site visits.  Logically, the more relevant the forum, the better quality of visit you receive when the your site is looked at!  Although all visits help your search engine ranking.

So I repeat my suggestion that, in addition to AdlandPro, you can repeat your forum contributions on other forum communities and spread the word..The Etsy site that Jenean recommends also has a forum you can use.

We have a few suggestions in these pages - any more out there to add?

Saludos
Jenny

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Re: ART AND CRAFTS - WAYS TO ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR WORK
3/21/2007 2:28:27 PM

Hello! Art World

I would like to share this great art gallery site with everyone, I've been with them for almost a year coming this August 2007. I absolutely love this Art Gallery site, that I've became addictive to it. most artist works sell really well here, but dont take my word for it, try it for yourself, there is a free trial going on right now.

http://www.yessy.com/1542041904.html  Sell your art on Yessy with a 14-day free trial create your own gallery today.

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Re: ART AND CRAFTS - WAYS TO ADVERTISE AND SELL YOUR WORK
3/22/2007 12:46:41 AM

Great suggestion Jenny, I'd like to add that Google will pick on posts to forums and blogs and send it through Google alerts.  I get Google alerts through my email.  I have it set for beaded jewelry, designsbyjenean, and my web site address www.designsbyjenean.com.  So when someone posts it somewhere or i post to my blog or a forum I get an email on that subject.  Don't have a Google alert set up.  Go to Goggle and type in google alert.  you'll be taken to the page where you can set up alerts and then you'll start receiving email regardng the keywords you choose.

Thanks, Jenean

Designs by Jenean Handmade Beaded Jewelry That Accentuates Your Style. http://www.designsbyjenean.etsy.com http://www.designsbyjenean.etsy.com http://www.designsbyjenean.blogspot.com
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