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Friday, March 27, 2009
Win some Dual Use Stitch Markers from Birdy's Knits
Interested in winning some of our dual use stitch markers? You can visit the shopbyhand blog and learn how. They have some wonderful contests going on right now to win hand made items, and we are one of them. If you are iterested in trying out some of our stitch markers, here's a great way to try and get a free set. Just head on over to the Shop ByHand blog and follow the directions. We're even paying the shipping, that's right no costs, just a bit of your time, and you could walk away with some of our stitch markers FREE!
Soapdeli of Byhand has been gracious enough to hos this contest and we are very pleased to be a part of it. If you are interested in hosting a contest for items that you have, please conact her, her information is located on the Blog.
Don't forget Birdy has realeased her new pattern Aegis, which is a scarf named after the Greek Goddess Athena's sheild. You can find it in our shop on Birdy's Knits. Please stop by and take a look. We hope to have her patterns up for sale in more locations soon, but for now they are only available at www.birdysknits.com
It's Spring and Here They Come!--Texas ArtFire Guild
It's Spring and the Blue Bonnets are coming out here in Texas! So in honor of these beautiful flowers we have made our first weekly spotlight a tribute to the blue bonnet. This is full of Blue items from some our Texas Artfire Guild Members.
This is the start of a weekly promo we will be doing with other Texas Artfire Guild Members. To feature eachothers items. Each week we will be putting together a spotlight on ByHand.me that features our different members. This week I decided to celebrate the coming of Spring, along with the blooming of the Bluebonnets. I will be going through the list alpabetically and taking nine at a time each week. This way everyone gets a chance to be featured. You will notice the one item is silver, that is because all this artisan had in their shop was silver, there is some blue in the background though!
Hello, this is James here, Birdy's husband, and I had a thought for a blog post. We have had this site live for over a year now. We have had some sales of different items, but we wanted to get our name out there some more, so we started an Etsy Shop. We were surprised to get 2 sales in the first day and another sale within two days of those. But have not had much luck since.
This set off a fury for me, to find all the best places to sell online. I have been searching sites, and joining sites left and right, trying to find the best way to promote our site. Some I have signed up for just to preserve our name, and some we have listed items on. We have them spread through out the land, but have not gotten any sales from any. So what do we do. Well I have been in the forums of many of the sites trying to find out what others do. Many talk about their publicizing their sites on blogs, in the forums and using online advertising. So what do I do, I get in the forums and talk a bit, set up an advertising account with project wonderful, and sign up for more accounts.
Now What?
Well I guess we keep doing it, we did get one sale from our advertising promotion, which is good to see. I have alreayd sent it off, but it is the only one we can attribute to any of these efforts. We still get sales from our regular traffic, but where do we go from here? Well I guess we mention our shops more, but now there are too many to mention. *smirks* I guess that's what you get for being over ambitious. They always say take it slow, and grow at the pace the business takes you. So we will just need to let it flow as we can. I did find a neat site, that has been somewhat helpful for us, it's called ByHand.me it has some neat functions that I have not really focussed on yet, but what I like is that you can link to all your differnt shops in one place. Just the same I thought I would list some of our shop sites here for those that are interested:
Artfire: You have heard us mention them before, and seen their links around our site.
Etsy: The most popular showcase for most people, but it is getting so over crouded that you have to constantly list just to get your items seen.
Shophandmade: It's new and allows you to list for free with sponorship, but has a good look to is and random searching.
MadeItMyself: MIM for short. I really like this site and our items get good views, but no takes yet. Still new but very helpful people.
There are many more out there, but we have not listed in them yet. I would like to see which of these are going to do well before we add more. I barely have enough time to do anything else, much less socialize on each of these sites. Oh well, let's just keep trolling along, and one day everyone will know the name of Birdy's Knits!
Hello everyone, we have opened a shop on Artifire.com now. This is a great place for artist's of all kinds to shop and showcase their items. If you would like to show off your skills, or are interested in what others have to offer, then come on over and check it out at birdysknits.artfire.com Below is a window where you can buy some of our extra beads quickly and easily without leaving this site. Give it a try!
