Free Cake Crafts Product

Hi everyone – for those of you interested in Cake Decorating _ I have a free Cricut Cake thingmy …

OK – LOL – I am not very cake orientated – I am very crafty, and love to eat the cakes that appear all the time in my household, but cake decorating is something that I am a little in the dark about.

So the easiest way to find out what I am talking about  is to click on this link and go and see for yourself.

 

I think it is only for USA residents – so if you are from elsewhere I am sorry.

Ha Ha – I showed this post to my wife, and all she did was to shake her head at me, and left me grinning, because I Googled this Cricut thingmy, and while I now have a good idea as to what it is and does, I am not that sure I would need one.

I want to just eat the cakes and not do such hard work.

But please do not tell my wife that

However if you are one of those that are serious about your cake decorating (Hi Elsie!) then this is great for you.

 

 

Crafting Online

Crafters online, or if you rather, crafters that own websites are a wonderful way for crafters to get acknowledgment or profits from their crafting products and abilities by owning and marketing a craft website online.

I am so passionate about these two words that putting them together makes me all worked up about telling you all the manageable options that there are in relation to crafts online.

An Overview

Blogs websites and forums are online in their millions and this is very good for you. The general trend is for crafters to not be very skilled at marketing and they tend to teach each other which big crafting websites are the ones where they can go to and offer the products that they have designed.

While this is a very solid way for many crafters and artists to earn extra money you will never get extremely affluent using this method.

True there are many ways that a hobbyist that does not want to turn themselves into a big business, and would like to still have time to do their products and run their businesses, can get ahead online with their websites

Serious about business?

If you are not inspired by the likelihood that you could get a great income from your crafting skills then I respect that, I would also prefer to be able to only need to share my efforts with those friends that I have both from home and online and not need to make a living from my crafting items.

If you are happy with the friends and family route, a simple free blog or one of the free Word-press websites would be more than adequate for your happiness, and you could go and join some of the chat rooms and pretty soon you will have all your needs taken care of online.

But if you are planning to have a more serious businesslike internet business, then a few different things that you will need to take care of with your website. However this is rather a lengthy list and I would not have the space to go into all the details here, but needless to say that you would need to be serious about the idea. Enjoy yourself by all means but you will still need to adhere to a step by step plan and then you will then need to stick to for your business organization to reach its potential.

Possible problems

To have any sort of online presence can and in fact will certainly affect your manufacturing time. That is and more than like always be the biggest stumbling block with artists that are also online, a business domain needs a minimum of 2 hours a day for it to develop and flourish online and if you commence to neglect that side of your website then you might fail.

Another problem here is that if you do not have a guru that has extensive marketing knowledge about the internet, you are likely to find yourself chasing education and even worse applying incorrect marketing methods. Beware of this issue.

The good news

Promoting your crafts online is good because it gives you the choice on which direction you would like your website or internet business to proceed in. You could do drop shipping and sell in bulk to different crafting outlets around the world. You could write and promote e books and reports and sell those to beginners that need training.

Finally you could simply take orders on your crafts and trade them direct to people who would like to buy directly from you.

The future

I am a firm believer that the crafting industry will grow stronger and stronger online; It is becoming increasingly easier to do web seminars and other methods of interaction with customers all across the world. I am convinced that there will come a time when we seldom even notice that the world is really becoming smaller and we will be happily ensconced in it and still loving our crafting.

I know that websites that we now call membership sites will have become the norm, and crafters internationally will be co operating with each other on many levels.

Are you going to be there?

Getting the best advice possible

I have extensive flea market experience, and now 26 months of internet marketing, and the combination of these two skills can be a massive advantage to your craft business. If you would like more information or any help at all, I suggest that you contact me, get the free report or simply buy my training course on Flea markets and craft markets

Free crafting report here

Great Flea Market Ideas

Getting great flea market ideas is the first step to a profitable home business

I have put up a short list here on some ways to get your flea market ideas all planned out and then put into action.

Firstly I do need to tell you that I have a full training product that does a comprehensive training system – all designed to get you small home crafter business into a really profitable zone.

At the end of this page I also offer you a free get-started-report

Here are a few tips to get you started.

RESEARCH METHOD ONE

•Go to ALL your local markets and make a list of every type of flea market stall at that market.

•Try to make a note of how busy they looked – did they always have customers?

•Put them into categories on a spread sheet (or in a note book)

RESEARCH STEP TWO

•Take out all the quiet looking products.

•Make up a short list of the 10 busiest product types

•Choose three of those that you think might be a product that you would like to produce and sell

STEP THREE

•Go to your computer – do keyword research on EXACTLY what the most popular terms are for that product

•E Mail me for help here – if you do not know how to do this step

•Now you know exactly what people want.

•Take action!!!

NEXT STEP

•Once you know what is popular, and which part of that product is the most popular – get started.

•I suggest choosing the biggest product in that list. EG – do not make a jewellery box if you could make a jewellery cupboard.

PRODUCT RESEARCH DONE

•Now you need to do the next business steps

•A proper business plan

•Financial research

•How your business will grow

•Step by step start up system

•YOU ARE NOW IN BUSINESS

IMPORTANT STEP

•Get your website built first

•It takes time for a website to grow – so the sooner you start the sooner your site will become busy

•Do your website properly – e mail me for details on that one

GET THE FREE REPORT

Download a copy of my free report. It should give you a head start into the crafter and flea market business.

Thank you

Rob Anderson

Craft keywords Bonus offer

Hi

While I am running the special on my crafter report I though to come here and run a keyword special for free for anyone who is either on my e mailing list or had downloaded my free report on how to start setting up your crafter business online.

Here is the offer

Valid until the end of January 2011

Anyone who is thinking of setting up a profitable website that relates to a crafter website can get a basic keyword research done for them.

I will give you 50 of the better keywords to target for your business – relating to the niche that your business is in.

The better two or three Keywords  I will take to the next level of research and take it to the traffic Travis competition level.

Here is an example…

If you were in the basket business – But were wholesaling at the same time, and also were selling at your local markets, both directly to the public and to the other crafters in a nearby catchment area. I am also going to presume that you are serious about your blog or website and are doing a post and a page a day. On top of that you are doing 1 video a week and 3 articles a week.

EXAMPLE PIC.

Then here are the results for the competition for those keywords.

AND damn if it is not an easy one – WOW, maybe I need to go into the basket wholesaling and supply business LOL

Ok, I guess that you are getting the idea here, there would be a little more, and it would all be a little clearer and laid out properly for you.

Get the report, get onto the list, or the RSS emailing thing, and ask me for your keywords.

OH! yes – the link to the report….

Crafter home business – Free report

Work From Home Business tips

Work From Crafters and Small Business owners all need good ideas

Whenever you are planning to either expand or to start up a new small home business you need to consider every method of marketing that there is out there.

Using traditional marketing methods do work – never write them off completely, and you should even consider mixing old methods with newer ones.
For a great Small Business Tip example

Flier Competition

• Plan a competition with a very popular prize. (I-pad or something)
• Print 5000 fliers.
• Make the competition entrant have to log onto a website and add their e mail address to be able to eligible for the prize.
• Distribute the fliers at an event that has 90% of your target market in one spot.
• Make sure that your website is mobile friendly
• Use a standard Aweber op-tin form – they work very well on mobiles – with very little modification

Once you have optimised your flier campaign – if your prize was enticing enough, you should have received a fairly high opt-in amount, and you are now in a position to send a few intense marketing e mails to those people.

If you do that correctly you should get a fairly high return from your e mails.

Remember an ordinary e mail only gets a .375% sales rate.

If you have managed to get a click through to your sales page you should also only average a 3% sales rate.

There are instances with a 50%  click through rate from an e mail (while up to 25% is the average) and as high as a 20% buy rate from there.

So your best is a possible 100 sales from a great email to 1000 people, BUT you could also only get 4 sales.

Truthfully you should aim at 25% click through and 3% sales, which is 7 or 8 sales from a mailing to 1000 people.

Would you like to get some great free tips on starting up your small home business?

go to Work from home business tips – free Guide

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