RSVP to the Webinar: Optimize Your Etsy Shop with Sarah Sewell
Anne LaFollette shares her expertise licensing your work in the surface design industry. Anne covers five key steps before you sign your first contract.
Monetizing Your Blog: A Guide to the Basics
Have you considered monetizing your blog? In this quick start guide, you’ll learn about all of the different options for making money as a blogger.
Why Etsy’s New Free Shipping Policy is Good for Your Business
Etsy announced today that free shipping will soon become a core part of the shopping experience. “By making free shipping the norm on Etsy, rather than the exception, we’ll connect more people with items that they love,” CEO Josh Silverman stated in a press release. Here’s why this policy might be a good thing for your business.
Ecommerce Platform Fees Calculator
With all of the ecommerce choices out there, it can be difficult to know which option is best for you. We’ve built this calculator the will help you compare all of the most common platforms.
What You Need to Know to Sell Baked Goods and Other Homemade Food on Etsy
Though Etsy allows the sale of edible products online, it’s on the seller to make sure they are conducting a legal and safe business.
How to Protect Your Social Media Accounts from Hackers
How much time have you spent growing your social media audience? What would you do if it all disappeared tomorrow? And what can you do to protect yourself? Over the past few weeks, a few prominent craft business owners have had their Instagram and Facebook accounts hacked and deleted. Take these steps to fend off similar attacks.
Recorded Webinar: How to Use Squarespace to Create a Unique and Effective Website for Your Craft Business
In this webinar you’ll learn expert tips and tricks to create a Squarespace website for your craft business from expert Paige Brunton.
Getting Set Up On Shopify: A Quick Start Guide
Shopify is a premier ecommerce platform and one that I recommend to many small businesses. Here are reasons I think you should set your shop up on Shopify, as well as some quick-start steps you can take right now.
Recorded Webinar: Optimize Your Etsy Shop with Sarah Sewell
Anne LaFollette shares her expertise licensing your work in the surface design industry. Anne covers five key steps before you sign your first contract.
30-Point Blog Critique Checklist
Once you have completed our 30-point checklist, you’ll not only have looked into your blog’s overall performance, you’ll have discovered some easy tweaks that will get you more attention from your audience.
Ecommerce Checklist: Make Sure Your Site Isn’t Missing Anything
Use our Ecommerce Checklist to make sure your site isn’t missing anything! Let us help you use all the tools available to bring and retain customers.
How to Integrate Shopify with MailChimp After the Breakup
Last week MailChimp threw the ecommerce world into a panic by announcing that they would no longer integrate with Shopify. The two companies were apparently unable to resolve a disagreement overcome to an agreement over a data privacy issue. Here’s how we recommend you proceed.
Landing Page Builders Round-Up
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A well-designed landing page has a single call to action; visitors are asked to do one thing, such as enter their email address, in order to get what they want.
10 Artists Who Are Doing an Awesome Job with Video on Instagram
The Instagram algorithm makes it tricky to consistently connect with your audience. In an attempt to create more engaging posts, many brands are developing video content to use on social media. Video gives you the opportunity to tell more in-depth stories than a single image, and customers love to see it: 87% of consumers say they’d like to see more video from brands in 2019. Here are ten artists and makers who use video on Instagram to boost engagement from their audience. Check them out!
Strategies for Encouraging More Reviews
Whether you choose to collect reviews organically or take a more active role in tracking customer feedback, here are some honest and helpful strategies for reminding people to take the time and write a review.
Mobile Payment Processing Cost Comparison
We’ve compared some of the most popular mobile processing services so you can choose wisely. See the table for an explanation of each field.
Ethical Dilemmas of Providing Free Content
In the race to gain blog readers and newsletter subscribers, the craft industry has adopted the motto of “free.” They hope offering free patterns as lead magnets will lead to future sales. Many in the industry aren’t buying it. Others still feel that approach works.
Finding the Right Host on the Internet
When you are choosing your home, there is a lot to consider. Your answers to some fundamental questions about your website and what you want it to be will lead you in the right direction for finding your web host, your address online.
SEO Tips and Tricks to Optimize Your Website
earch Engine Optimization is the steps you can take to increase organic traffic to your website through search engine results. Here are 20 SEO tips and tricks to optimize your website.
Password Managers: Main Features and Price Comparison
Fortunately, there is a better option than constantly sending yourself reminders or reset links: password managers. These apps allow you to generate, store, and authenticate your passwords on your computer or mobile devices. Most companies have a low monthly fee and similar features.