Cross promotions – a wonderful opportunity to bring more attention to your crafts and work together with another crafter or business. Cross promotion is where two companies with complimentary items work together to increase exposure and sales for both. Traditionally, cross promoting involves two different companies; but anyone who makes multiple items can also do [...]

How to write a how to? After years of technical support and suffering with poorly written technical documents, I began my second career as a technical writer. Now, in what I guess is my third career as a writer and business consultant, I am offering some advice to crafters who wish to add some free [...]

Freebies lead to sales! Period, end of story. Offering free and well-done patterns and project ideas on your commercial site will lead to increased sales. On my other crafting site, Crafty Tips, the sites that get the most traffic have been those offering something for free. Being able to convert those looking for free patterns [...]

Finally, we found an event with enough parking for the turnout. Granted we had to go round and round the lots a few times; but, we did actually get to see something this weekend! I’ve never been to a “fiber” event. Mom wanted to see the animals. The newspaper had this beautiful picture of a [...]

How exciting, my first comments and human visitors, other than from the Serendipity forum, came today! How dreadfully boring that they left a spam-filled comment about nothing. Oh well. The irony is that both this site and my Craft Site Directory are designed to promote other websites. I’m not surprised, but, I would be lying [...]

Wow, 3 for 3! Such a disappointment. For three different weekends now we had planned, scheduled and drove several hours to attend Craft Fairs, Fall Celebrations and the like. None of the events were being held for the first time. Yet, oh what a mess. Newsflash … if you are having a large event and [...]