16th October 2009
So you've written your book - or you've got a great idea together - and you're looking for a craft book publisher, right? That's what you need, isn't it? Someone to print and distribute it? It might take you months or even years of searching to find one w...
16th October 2009
There's a lot of hype about working from home and making money on the internet but one of the true "make money while you sleep" opportunities is to write a craft book. If you've got an idea, or some crafting experience, then other crafters will pay you ha...
12th October 2009
If you want to sell crafts online then it stands to reason that you're going to have a much easier time of it, and be much more successful, if you can put your crafts in front of as many people as possible. Without a doubt doing well in the search engines...
12th October 2009
Many people look at an online crafts business as their escape from the rat-race, the chance to ditch the tedious nine to five (or often eight to six). It's a way of going from hobby crafter to full-time crafts person. The opportunity to give yourself and ...
12th October 2009
Anyone serious about wanting to sell crafts online should be running a blog. As either a standalone (which would be the way to start if you have no website at the moment) or as an addition to an existing website, there is no more powerful craft marketing ...
12th October 2009
Your hand-made crafts are unique to you, which is what makes them special, but selling crafts is to some extent like selling anything else and when you're setting up a craft business, making sure things are OK at the beginning is a lot easier than correct...
12th October 2009
How to sell crafts online? Well I wish I could give you the one simple answer but sadly it doesn't exist. Selling crafts on the internet is a series of steps, like any other business, each an important part of the whole. Let's start by looking at somethin...
30th September 2009
If you're serious about selling your crafts on the internet you probably have to go into areas that you're maybe not to familiar with just yet. Thinks with unfathomable three letter acronyms like SEO. Well let's de-mistify (and simplify) SEO right now!
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22nd September 2009
If you go back a few years and you wanted to write and publish a craft book you were in the unenviable position of needing to find craft publishers. A quick search would turn up several, but finding them wasn't the end of the story, in fact it was just th...
31st March 2009
OK you've got your nice shiny new blog and you're all ready to make some money on the internet. All you're missing now is some people. No people, no cash, simple as that. Assuming you'd like to be as profitable as possible we'd like that to be free blog t...
31st March 2009
Blogging is fun, easy and profitable. Leading software like Wordpress is "open source" so anybody can write bits for it and there's a whole army of people writing superb add-ons (plug-ins and themes) to make you blog do all kinds of useful things. Unfortu...
10th March 2009
If you want to get ahead in this business having a great body will do you no harm at all! Now before you think I'm getting all sexist, this is the second article marketing tip in a set of three, and the "body" I'm talking about is the main bulk of your ar...
10th March 2009
This is the first article marketing tip of three. If you want to beat the competition and bank the big bucks from writing articles you need to look at three areas: headline, body and resource box (or call-to-action).
So let's get going with your articl...
25th February 2009
When you're looking at making money online, one area that's easy to break into and produces excellent results is professional blogging. But why that particular choice? Given the many choices, why make money with blogging?
Well for a start it's really, ...
25th February 2009
It doesn't matter what your background is or where you come from, running your own blog can make a serious difference to your income!
Complete beginner? The only thing easier than making money with blogging is winning the lottery!
Store owner? Wheth...
