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In my alternate life or parallel life or whatever, I am/was/will be, etc a Web developer, web marketer, web professional. Apart from the arduous work of making crafts for a living, you have to fulfill all these other roles. Accountant, publicist, self-psychology and motivation and much more. In web marketing there is a latest or maybe not so latest fad, Classified Ads. But many of our more web savvy crafters have added not just forums to their sites to attract relevant traffic but also classified ads to their websites. They get increased traffic but you alsoget to advertise your site and/or products in there for free. Crafter's buzz is just one of the ones I found, also Mary's Craft Classifieds and many more you can find by searching through the major Search engines. As much as we would love to spend all our time crafting, marketing is a necessary evil, and besides if no one advertised how would we have found so many of the wonderful ideas that drove us to create in the first place? |
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 During the past artisans fair I spent some time making things. I did not make the beaded flowers because they can hurt my hands after a bit, so I decided to do some old fashioned beading. I used a pattern from the book Jewels in Peyote Stitch called Iris but I wanted to do the background in white. Turns out I did not bring my white thread to the show so I ended up doing them in black. They look lovely, and actually every beaded earring (in peyote stitch) I took to that fair was sold as soon as I showed the earrings.
My only complaint is that the one earring took me 4 hours to make, completely dashing my hopes in a career in beading jewelry. How much could I sell the earrings for? 10$ is what the Panamanian Market would bear, the rest of the world might bear a bit more. But it would have to be anything from 25$ to 35$ to actually earn what was put into the work. |
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