Crafter's Business Resources

Craft Products to Sell & Home Business Ideas
Build a Business Website
Advertise Your Website
Affiliate Marketing
Advertising on your Website
Marketing Your Crafts

Craft Products to Sell & Home Business Ideas
Flower Pressing for Fun and Profit!	Personalized Baby Newspaper Business
The Sweet Smell of Success	Tune Wind Chimes
Crochet for Profit	Gel Candles Recipes 101
How to Start Your Own Quilt Shop	Start Your Own Machine Quilting Business
Crafts Wanted! Over 200 different places to sell your crafts	Easy Face Painting
Soy Candle Scentsations - Unique Home Based Business Home based business for at-home moms and women. Full support & training, Work your own hours - free information!
National Scrapbooking Association Serving all segments of the scrapbooking industry, the NSA provides the tools to strengthen and unify the scrapbooking community and is dedicated to expanding the passion of scrapbooking.
Learn to make Wire Jewelry at Home If you love jewelry, this is a great opportunity. The course is very complete, with all tools and supplies. Great support, too. They also sell Wholesale Beads.

Build a Business Website

Site Build It! Here's a great way to create, maintain and promote your website, even if you do not know anything about web design. SiteSell has a section customized to work at home moms. You will be inspired! SiteSell has many, many features - creating your site, advertising, mailing list, and more -plus a supportive and helpful community, to boot! Want to read more? This is their step-by-step guide to having a complete online business.
FireFox Browser
	The Firefox web browser is gaining in popularity. We highly recommend it. Most importantly, download it for free to check how your website looks for your visitors.
Accept Credit Cards with PayPal Set-up a free PayPal shopping cart in just a few minutes, and you can sell your products from your website. You pay a fee only when a buyer pays with PayPal.
Bravenet Free website tools and more:
Blog Calendar Forums Polls Guestbook Chat E-Cards Guestmap	Templates Site Search Mailing List Counter Stats Photo Center Headline News Website Hosting

Advertise Your Website Text ads are very effective for advertising your website. AllCrafts.net Be sure to check out advertising here at AllCrafts.net. We offer text ads at the top and side of almost the entire site. We also offer free reciprocal links to relevant websites. Yahoo! Sponsored Search List your site with Yahoo! Sponsored Search and appear on the top of search results of leading sites like Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista and CNN.com. Sign up and get a $25 credit. Google Google also offers a text advertising service, AdWords
Affiliate Marketing Earn commissions by referring website visitors to other sites. If you sell your products online, consider starting an affiliate program yourself. Joining these programs is free and takes just a few minutes. Commission Junction Join the Commission Junction Network as a publisher today. Many advertisers in lots of categories. LinkShare Free LinkShare Membership! Enjoy the benefits of partnering with 400 top online merchants. Freeze.com Offer free screensavers on your website. Earn revenue for each download.
Advertising on your Website
Google AdSense
	Google AdSense displays targeted text ads automatically on your website. The ads pay per click.
Adbrite AllCrafts.net uses Adbrite to sell text ads for our site. We recommend them highly. Ads are sold for a specific period of time - 1 day to 1 month. The price is based on supply and demand.
Chitika Chitika is a pay per click advertiser. They display products automatically based on keywords that you select for each ad. Spend time choosing relevant keywords.

Marketing Your Crafts

Craft Show Success

Looking to turn your crafts into a business? Considering the craft shows? I've just read an e-book for you! "Craft Show Success" is full of advice from the trenches of the local craft show up to juried fine art shows. Excellent for the beginner to novice craftsperson.

First, the book covers the basics of going into business with your crafts and many of the issues involved. The author goes into detail about how to design products, as she advises that your inventory should change about 30% per year.

Other chapters cover:

Setting your business up for success
Keys to selecting the right crafts shows
Tips and ideas for a better booth
Using a marketing plan to expand your business

This book is excellent for those starting to sell at craft shows and great for those wanting to be more successful at shows, too.

This is an e-book that you can buy online and download immediately.

Sell Crafts Online
Attention crafters! Sell your crafts online with an easy to use point-and-click interface. You can be up and running within minutes. CraftMall.com offers a safe and secure craft mall for all arts and crafts enthusiasts.
Click here for more information

ECrafter.com
Sell your crafts online at eCrafter.com! Lots of features for one monthly price.

Stamps.com
Sign up for a 4 week trial and receive a $25 free postage offer, a free digital scale, and a free supplies kit (in all - an $80 value). Print postage right from your PC and send First Class, Express Mail, Priority Mail and more without ever going to the Post Office.