Earlier on today I was doing a spot of online shopping for some sewing machine needles and I happened to notice that this particular online store was selling a hard-to-find product (which I’ll call item X) which I also sell in my own shop.  So in the name of research I went to check out [...]

One of the things that I really enjoy in my craft business is hunting around for different products to sell in my shop. Well, it’s not always as enjoyable as shopping in the shopping centre/mall as suppliers can be unreliable, and hard to find, and sometimes not very reasonable, but most of the time [...]

One thing that Wendy (the founder of eMoms) and I noticed very quickly from your responses to CraftBoom! is that there is a huge crafting business community out there that isn’t being supported on the internet as well as it could be. Your response to this blog has been wonderful and I want thank all [...]

Switch on the news and read any newspaper and you’ll hear about fears of an economic downturn/slow down, at least I know this to be the case in both the US and the UK. My crafts e-commerce business is my sole source of income so I’m particularly mindful of what’s going on [...]

I’m so happy! My sister has decided to join in the Craft Business fun and open up her own etsy shop. Just before Christmas my sister finally treated herself to a proper badge making machine. She’s a busy full-time teacher who isn’t always that great at treating herself. So [...]

The best way to get your name out there is to market yourself, and one of of the best ways to market yourself on the internet costs NOTHING! NADA! Ta dah! That’s right folks using social sites like Flickr costs a big fat ZERO. I am speaking from personal experience and Carrie Sommer, [...]