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8869098685?profile=originalLIVE PODCAST: Thursday, JUNE 4, 1 PM ET

Part II: Using Social Media to Sell Art/Etsy

Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and craft supplies founded in 2005. It is a global online marketplace, where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items and supports independent creators. Will it work for you?

Successful Etsy sellers share their information to help you decide whether or not Etsy is the place for you. 

8869200461?profile=originalDavid Klenk is a custom furniture maker who has increased visits to his Etsy page by linking it to my product photo pins on Pinterest. He has not done a craft show or trade show since 2016. My first online sale was in 2006. I sell between $40,000 and $70,000 per year online.

Jackie Kaufman selling on Etsy since 2008 has two shops, a long established jewelry business and a newer shop with prints. She  successfully uses her social media posts on both Facebook and Instagram to bring customers to her Etsy Shops to be able to sell worldwide."

8869199883?profile=originalI realize there are lots of pros and cons about Etsy and I want to know about them. We really would like to hear from you also about your Etsy experiences. Will you leave a comment or question below or call in to the show, starting at 1:30? 800-243-1338

As always, you can listen to this podcast right here: ArtFairRadio.com/Etsy

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Can a Website Contribute to Art Sales?

8869098685?profile=originalLIVE PODCAST: THURS., MAY 21, 1 PM EASTERN TIME

Can a website bring you sales of your fine art or craft? Five artists join in a roundtable talk about their experiences. Their work ranges from small items (hand made soaps and associated products to $5000+ oil paintings.) Your work undoubtedly will fit into this continuum. Some of our guests: 

8869202055?profile=originalWe invite your comments below AND we'll open our phones to your questions also. (805) 243-1338

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Join us on Tuesday, August 14 at 5 pm, ET at ArtFairRadio.com for this useful episode. 8869093076?profile=original

A continuing topic for artists is "what good is a website for me?" "Why should I waste the time and money?" and more positively, "I have a website, how can I make it make it work better for me?"

My guest will be Scott Fox, author of Click Milliionaires: Work Less, Live More With an Internet Business You Love

Listen in as he gets down to the most strategic, smart and inexpensive ways you can:

  • get a website up and running for little money
  • why you need it
  • quick and easy ways to implement it as a marketing tool
  • how to use it to promote yourself
  • ways to make it make money for you
  • using Facebook as a marketing tool

You'll get great tips on how to make your website work for you without a lot of technical background and time involved. Isn't it time all that promise about websites comes true for you?

I'll be doing two shows with Scott, this one dealing with the basics of Internet marketing and a second one in October, a call-in show where you can ask him your specific questions.

P.S. Scott is my son and he is the author of three books about Internet marketing and he taught me everything I know about running websites. He recently even started an online community patterned after ArtFairInsiders.com, ClickMillionaires.com. It's been my turn to teach him a little about community management, though heaven knows that is a whole other topic!

Do you have questions you'd like me to ask him on Tuesday? Please leave them in the comments below.

Catch up on our past podcasts at the "Radio" tab at the top of this page.

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8871864065?profile=original Dear Artists, 


Are you ready for the chance to stay in the studio and do more creating?

Are you really ready to monetize your website?

Would you like to have clients and shops around the country finding you online?
 

Welcome to Chocolate in Peanut Butter*

                                             a boutique site of fine goods "made in the USA"
 
228.pngThe team at Chocolate in Peanut Butter is looking for artists and designers of fine goods to join our community. We offer an extensive background in retail, fashion, media and public relations and are out to leverage our skills to create a one-stop shopping site full of amazing pieces of all handmade goods and items from the USA. The site will be marketed as the "go to" for retail buyers, media and clients to shop all things American.

Chocolate in Peanut Butter is not an Etsy, Big Cartel or Dawanda. CiPB is a meeting place for consumers who do not want to spend hours searching for fine goods online. They know when they visit our site that they can browse with confidence that all pieces were made in the USA. This includes retail buyers shopping for goods for their stores.

I speak from years of buying for my stores, if I had a "go to" like CiPB to purchase beautiful American made products, it would have changed my buying process and saved me a lot of time and money.

So, I reach out to you before we start our media blitz with Chic Exec's.** I promise you our fan base will grow quickly as there is no other website that provides an efficient way for consumers, retail buyers and media to search for products in a beautiful "store front" setting. 

NEXT:
  

    1.    Please go to www.ChocolateinPeanutButter.com

           and "join the crusade". We will then contact you for
           photos and a link to your site. If this email has found
           you, you have already been selected to participate as
           this is an "invite only site", all others must submit
           product for approval.


    2.    We will blitz/market using our 20,000 media contacts
           and facilitate all inquiries


    3.    Interested shoppers will be able to click directly through to your website to shop further

    4.    You will fulfill all purchases

                               No commission, no fees, no special advertising costs 

Please consider joining CiPB. Our media blitz is set to go out March 16th. We are busy putting new companies and products on our site, so please allow us time to do that same for you.

 

We offer an affordable way for you to market your brand or pieces.  
We offer 3 month, 6 month and 1 year representation on the site.
3 months - $60, 6 months - $99, 1 year - $200

We will offer 1 year publication to Art Fair participants for $150 a year.

This promotion will expire on March 18th, 2011.

Right now Diane Sawyer is focusing on companies that offer made in America goods. It is more important then ever that we provide an efficient, shop friendly atmosphere for clients to learn more about you. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MadeInAmerica

Please contact me if you should have any questions,

Michelle Thelen
New Talent Director
cellowoodard@comcast.net
www.ChocolateinPeanutButter.com

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*The site's name is derived from an unmistakable and uniquely American combination-chocolate in peanut butter. We have hand selected designers that offer posh pieces that are only "made in America."
 
**Chic Exec's have been successful with product placement in over 100 mainstream publications just within the last year!  Their clients have been featured in magazines such as Brides, Parenting, "O", People, In Style, Tot Trends, In Style, Pregnancy and Newborn, US Weekly and Glamour - just to name a few!
 

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Do you live in Detroit? Are you serious about learning how to turn your web site into a money machine? Author Scott Fox, a former Detroiter, well aware of the economic devastation of his hometown, believes in reinvesting in deserving communities. Accordingly he has just announced that he is giving six free scholarships to his online marketing community to Detroiters.

The community, www. ClickMillionaires.com, focuses on teaching “regular” folks how to start new e-businesses and how to make more money online. Members share start-up tips, “how to do it” advice, e-commerce information, web-building strategies, the latest online marketing tactics, and have a lot of fun, too. Plus, Scott is there every day to answer questions and coach the members. E-business today offers the kinds of opportunities that anyone can leverage, and unfortunately Detroiters need more help than most.

Scott will be awarding a year's membership in the community (value $379) to six Detroiters. In order to win this scholarship you have to visit his site and leave a "comment". He'll be choosing the best six commenters to join in the action at his site. Click here to learn more: www.ScottFox.com.


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Here is a cool opportunity to get your website and e-business questions by best-selling author Scott Fox, who does happen to be my son. I know, I know, most of you are disappointed in the failure of your website to add $$$s to your coffers. Here is an excellent chance to find out why: Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 1, 2009 -- December 3-18 Scott Fox is hosting a “12 Days of Christmas” Online Tweetathon at www.ScottFox.com. The show is raising money for underprivileged kids, helping small business owners learn the latest social media marketing strategies, and promoting Fox’s new book, e-Riches 2.0: Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies (AMACOM, 2009). Small business owners, online marketers, and web site entrepreneurs will want to tune in to: - Ask their online marketing questions of e-commerce expert, Scott Fox, live via web video - Tweet about the show to trigger Fox’s $1.00 charity donations for every tweet - Automatically be entered to win thousands of dollars worth of prizes including dozens of copies of Fox’s two books (Internet Riches and e-Riches 2.0: Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies), a Flip Mini Camcorder, an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, conference passes, logo design packages, and much more. The 12 day online “Telethon” will air at ScottFox.com on weekdays from 3-4pm ET December 3 -18. The online TV show will be streamed live using Ustream.tv. If you missed it today, tune in tomorrow. You will learn a lot. If you're not into the "tweeting" visit the Telethon anyway to get help with your web questions. I'll see you there today at 3 pm EST. Visit the site now and get ready.
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