The summer hasn’t been great so far, let’s face it! But with the weather improving and a late summer on the cards is it now time to make your own Christmas decorations ready to sell during the festive season?

For many crafters now is the time to be getting out the glitter and tinsel, well perhaps at least christmas style supplies that are a little more subtle. If you are part of the Craft Fair circuit then you will definately already be thinking about what Christmas decorations to make.

We have noticed at www.craftshapes.co.uk that sales of wooden christmas shapes have increased. Wooden Christmas trees, stockings, snowflakes, snowmen and so on are all selling well at the moment.

Which is what reminded me to post here to then remind you that if you are a crafter don’t wait until mid November to start your Christmas crafting, it’s too late. Start building up your stock now at a steady pace then when Christmas sales really kick in you won’t get caught out and find yourself runnig aroud like a headless turnkey!

Also, as a side note if you pop over to the excellent ‘ebay pulse’ tool (just search for it on Google) you might be surprised to know that pretty much day after day the most searched term in the crafts catagory is Christmas. So if you are a crafter who has Christmas stock don’t take it off your site, promote it all year as there are lots of potential customers searching for Christmas items all year round.

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It’s a great headline! It’s not mine, it belongs to John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2.0.

If you are an online crafter you will like to keep up to speed on what is happening in the internet marketing world, which I recommend you do. I am sure you subscribe to  a few lists of your favourite gurus. If you do I am also sure that you have been bombarded with emails containing affiliate links to John’s TS2. I know I have. I bet I have received at least a dozen different emails from Internet Marketers I follow.

Is it annoying? Not really, at the end of the day these people are looking to earn their commission by getting the people on their lists to use their affiliate link to buy what is no doubt a fantastic product. So I can’t blame them. It’s amazing to see what a huge range different free bonuses each one is offering. There are some great deals!

And this brings me on to Traffic Secrets 2.0 itself. I haven’t had a sneak preview so I don’t know how good it is. But what I do know is that John Reese is on a mission to raise the bar when it comes to Internet Marketing products. He always aims to over deliver and this time I think he is looking to blow all the competition out of the water.

We can lean a lot from this. Ok, we can’t all spend a year of our lives dedicated to developing one product but the principle is still the same. Aim to over deliver! There are so many terrible e-books, digital online courses, reports, membership sites and so on all promising to get you rich by using their methods. So many times these miracle cures fail to deliver.

It is no surprise to me that the king of them all is the person who works the hardest to offer genuine quality and value. And that’s John Reese.

I haven’t decided whether to buy John’s programme yet, I’d like to for sure. But one thing I will take away from it is that I will try harder to offer the best quality products I can. This is one technique that I am convinced does work to help drive traffic to your website.

Until next time.

Steve

P.S If you want to have a look at John’s sales letter for Traffic Secrets 2.0 you can see it here.

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/

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If you are selling your crafts online then I am sure you are already taking and active interest in Internet Marketing? If you’re not, then you absolutely should be.

Look at this way, you are a crafter, you are skilled in your field and no doubt create fantastic unique craft items. But once you have created your crafts the rest is about the sales. It sounds blunt but without sales you’re craft business is dead!

Now for lots of people the word sales is a frightening or suspicious word, they think of door to door sales representatives trying to push you into buying something you don’t want like double glazing.

Of course getting sales is nothing like this in reality, and as an online crafter sales are what you need.

So where does Internet Marketing fit it?

The key here is to accept that you need to spend a big chunk of your time marketing your crafts online. Now the Internet is a big place so where do you start?

Well, the best way to start is by looking at what others are doing and how they do it. And there is no-one better in the field of internet marketing that John Reese.

John Reese has pioneered many, many developments in Internet Marketing and pretty much invented the product launch method online. He showed the power of this spectacularly by carrying out his Million Dollar Day on August 17 2004. He made one million dollars with one product in one day!!!!

How did he do it?

MARKETING!

So, like I say the best way to progress with your own marketing is to study the marketing of others. John is launching his updated product Traffic Secrets 2.0. As part of the launch he is giving away free videos about how to promote your web business and get traffic online. These videos are full of great content that you can learn from and apply to selling your crafts online.

Here is the link to the first video.

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/

You need to sign up to John’s mailing list to get the second and third video but I recommend doing so, you will get the extra videos but also any other information John provides to his subscriber s is well worth a look.

So have a loko at the videos and think about how you can utilise the online marketing techniques and methods John provides to sell your crafts online.

Until next time.

Steve

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How do you succeed in crafting? It hard to know what to do first, but just make a start! Think about the following scenarios.

Do you feel time just flies by and there goes another day when you haven’t produced any of your crafting ideas. Do you have a friend who never seems to run out of time and energy? They have three kids, a job and a truck load of other commitments but they make the most amazing crafts?!!

How do they do it? How do they find the time? I am sure you have heard the saying “if you want a job doing give it to a busy man/woman”. Often when people are busy and up against it they are much more organised, they work faster and smarter. They have to.

Well the same is true about being creative and crafting. You have to find the time, get organised, plan to actually implement your crafting ideas. Don’t just admire your friend who seems to achieve everything they need to each day, and then on top of that produces a fantastic set of birthday cards in the evening. Do it yourself!

Get busy. Take action.

Get hold of the materials you need and make a start. Just make a start. The best step towards finishing a task is to start it!

So go on, give it a go. Choose what you want to do, plan when you want to do it and organise yourself and your day around it. See just how productive you can be and watch those crafting ideas turn into amazing craft projects.

Steve

P.S. If you currently sell your crafts online and want to increase your sales and craft income or you’d like learn how to begin selling your crafts online I highly recommend www.howtosellcrafts.com

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