The date for the SweepIn broom maker’s gathering is approaching, and the event continues to grow! I have to say that when this idea first came up, I thought, sure, why not… it’s be fun to get a a small group together and talk about brooms. Small group? No! At present more than 45 people have expressed an interest in attending and the information has only been listed here on my website, the broom makers list, and there’s been a bit of word of mouth traffic.
I also thought it’s...
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There are a bare handful of online selling venues that offer something for nothing. This services goes one better and offers even more for nothing. Let’s take a look at the offerings and enticements and see if it’s worth the proverbial plunge!
Here, the seller chooses what to pay. If you choose to pay nothing, nada, zip and zero your listing will have to be sponsored – that means an add will appear alongside your product....
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In cruising through my stats last night I noted a couple people searching for a review of WinkElf… here it is!
Let’s start with the good!
Listing fees between $0 and $.40. The 40 cents is broken down like so: $.05 for a bold title, $.10 for Category Feature, and $.25 for Main Page Plus Feature. When an item sells, there’s a mere 2.5% commission. A basic store is free and that includes unlimited listings and the...
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Depending on what you list, how you list, when you list and where you list, listing fees can vary wildly. One item can cost as little as $.03 or as much (est.) as $3. Personally, I think it’s far too confusing. I grant that there is a fee calculator and a lot of 3rd party services that offer to lower listing fees and make listing easier, but still, ebay, by itself, is convoluted and hard to navigate...
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This is the kind of article you’d expect to find at the end of a series such as this… the catch all just before the conclusion. When I’m reading a piece such as this, though, I find it annoys me to get to the second to last line to find that the information I was looking for all along wasn’t even considered. Wasn’t covered, wasn’t research, wasn’t written.
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In all fairness, this site has the look and feel of a startup and it might be worth looking at again in a couple months… or years. At this point in time, though, and this is just an opinion, mind you, but I don’t think this is the pace for an artisan crafter.
We start with a dizzying series of listing fees and options and store fees and options… enough to make ebay look rather simple.
We...
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There are some serious benefits to keeping it all at home. There are also some serious drawbacks. After all, if it was easy and worked well, everyone would be doing it and services like Etsy and ebay would never have made it off the ground.
The primary benefit is, of course, the freedom. There’s no one besides law enforcement telling me what I can and can’t write about. Put an obvious link...
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In checking my site stats I saw that several people were looking for HandmadeCatalog.com reviews. That, I thought, gives me a place to start the Online Sales Showdown! Remember, I’m taking a look at Cost, Ease of use, Fit, Integration and Traffic.
And what a rough start it is…
From what I could find, this site has been around for a couple years. In...
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For the past several years, we’ve been selling at local shows, on this website and on Ebay. However, I’ve always thought that there had to be an alternative. I had heard of Etsy, and there have been vague rumors about other sites and services starting with the intention of competing with ebay and Etsy.
It turns out that the rumors are true. There are more then 20 alternatives to Etsy and ebay. But I find that, short of signing...
As you may have read earlier, we’re planning a broom-makers get together in April at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR. The response has been much larger than I had ever imagined! To streamline things, I’ve put together an information packet and a registration form. You can download it here:
MS Word .DOC File
or
Acrobat Reader .PDF File
If I missed something or you have an additional question, please feel free to email me.
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