Sell Your Crafts Online [Kindle Edition]

James Dillehay (Author)

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Product Description

"Sell Your Crafts Online" provides a roadmap to the best Internet places for makers of handmade crafts to sell and promote from. Discover over 500 online marketing ideas.

Get ways to inspire trust on your site pages so more shoppers buy. Learn how to boost your craft site's search engine traffic with 24 top Search Engine Optimization tips. Are your crafts for sale on Etsy and eBay but lost in the crowd? Find more than 80 other places to sell handmade crafts from. And learn where to sell your crafts to stores online from 10 wholesale sites.

Promote your indie designed art and crafts from more than 40 online communities. Get reviews of your craft products on 51 shopping community and blog sites that seek unique products to write about. Syndicate your handmade crafts images, blogs, videos, and articles from 36 networks and discover 16 ideas for getting free publicity in magazines and on TV.

Thought about starting your own t-shirt business? "Sell Crafts Online" reveals 16 sites like Cafepress that let you sell your art and designs via on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, caps and hundreds of other products.

Save yourself weeks of research. Get ahead by accessing undiscovered but popular places for selling crafts online from.

Author and craft artist, James Dillehay has written nine books and operates more than fifty Web sites. "James was a guest speaker on our Guerrilla Marketing conference call and he blew me away with what he knows about selling on the Internet," said Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series, over 15 million copies sold.

"Sell Crafts Online" is a completely updated edition of Dillehay's book "The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet," of which Lapidary Journal said "An astonishing amount of usable information, crammed into so few pages! James Dillehay has an amazing talent for getting right to the point, with a minimum of "geekese." Of the entire list of computer instructional manuals I have read, this one would top the list. I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . even to my mom."

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 202 KB
• Publisher: Warm Snow Publishers; 2 edition (December 19, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004GUS7TQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,515 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Arts & Entertainment > Art > Instruction & Reference > Business of Art
  • #17 in Books > Arts & Photography > Business of Art
  • #32 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Home Based

More About the Author

James Dillehay is a Certified Guerilla Marketing Coach and nationally recognized author of nine books. He has more than 25 years experience as a successful entrepreneur, artisan, publisher and coach.

He has been interviewed and featured in media like The Wall Street Journal, Bottom Line Personal, The Chicago Tribune, Entrepreneur Radio, HGTV and more. See media list.


James Dillehay is co-author of "Guerrilla Multilevel Marketing", "Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines" and "Best of Guerrilla Marketing, the Remix."

He lives next to a national forest near Torreon, New Mexico.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Path to an Online Success, February 14, 2012

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K. Hedges "hertstore" (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sell Your Crafts Online (Kindle Edition)

This book helped me expand my girlfriend's small business into an enterprise where she is truly getting excited about making a lot of money now. She sells necklaces - one of each sign of the zodiac - and having lovingly made them all by herself she plugged them on etsy and eBay but in reality it was hard work getting the message out there.

Since I showed her this book she has been able to fine tune and expand her business and the rewards are already flying in. We have even got her listed up as high as page three on Google thanks to the SEO tips.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Last Word on Internet Selling, May 22, 2011

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Chinmay Hota (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sell Your Crafts Online (Kindle Edition)

Anyone selling products or services online knows how complex the job is. It is a crowded market out there, with rules and tools of the game changing very fast. There is no guarantee for success, unless one masters the tricks of the trade and catches up with the latest trends in the web world. There is no chance here for the uninitiated.

James Dillehay has undergone all these since he joined the bandwagon in 1984. He has continued to hone his skills in the area as a researcher, guerrilla marketing guru and author, while weaving his handcrafted items and selling them online very successfully. He has more than fifty websites showcasing his crafts. A potential seller of artifacts online is bound to feel secure in the hands of such an experienced and practical trainer.

Dillehay has organized his book very scientifically into parts. While one part offers a comprehensive list of places to promote and sell crafts online, the other part shows how to organize all the possible marketing venues into a manageable system. There is a storehouse of information and guidance on both the fronts, in fact more than 500 killer ideas.

One thing I specially liked about the book is the inclusion of a very innovative `Marketing Calendar' which provides a semblance of order in the chaotic world for the of internet marketing. It also gives a roadmap for future for the seller.

The discussion on the practical uses of popular social marketing is an eye opener for the new entrant in the trade. The use of social marketing in ecommerce can only be ignored at one's peril. The book also delves deep into the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) skills which are now sure tools of success in internet selling.

The book contains comprehensive guidelines on internet marketing in general and info on crafts marketing in particular. The utmost care the author has taken in reminding about small but essential facets of business such as business etiquettes, free publicity, and offline advertisement are praiseworthy.

I found the book as the last word on online selling of handicrafts, and a very useful guide for any type of e-commerce at the present times.

Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas for my crafing business, May 22, 2011

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Judith M "Judith M" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sell Your Crafts Online (Kindle Edition)

I've been selling my own crafts online (and at shows) for years, but I learned so much from this book that I couldn't wait to get started. I was selling on etsy (of course) and I knew about some of the other sites that I could sell on, but I had no idea that there were so many. This book lists 70+ sites that you can put your stuff on to sell, and even better, how to make it into on giant presence, instead of 70 little ones. The book also shows new ways to promote, advertise, and get more people viewing your stuff -- and what to do with those people who look but don't buy on their first visit. I'm already using many of the tips in the book, and will be rolling out many more over the summer!