A blog about crafts, art, selling both and other things that strike my fancy.
As I talked about in one of my first blog posts – Free Patterns Lead to Sales, it’s a fairly common practice for crafters to offer free patterns on their blogs and websites. Freebies can lead to a multitude of free links and advertising for your site. And it’s not a technique for garnering links […]
I’ve been visiting more blogs in the past few weeks than I think I did all of last year. I don’t know if this is someone’s misguided “good idea” or some sort of coding mistake but how could anyone think it’s a good idea to not include a link at the bottom of their blog […]
I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. Spend enough time and effort on something that you publish online and sooner or later someone, somewhere is going to help themselves to your hard work. Granted, many bloggers do not understand that taking something they found online and posting it on their own site […]
The transaction started much like any other. He wanted to hire me and agreed to pay a 50% deposit through Paypal. Like I’ve done countless times before, I sent him an invoice. For three days my client tried and tried and tried to make payment. And for three days he was told “This payment can […]
A recent complaint by someone on a directory forum got me to thinking, how long do websites typically last and are directories more likely than average websites to disappear quickly? What sort of ROI can someone expect from directory submissions over the long term? Is it really 0% as one forum member reported? Website Life […]
Many of us spend a great deal of time seeking ways to advertise our websites and businesses to stand out from the crowd. How much time is spent actively reacting to what others are saying about us? Some time ago I was subcontracted to do some marketing research for a company. Their products sold in […]