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The Best Blogs from 2014 at the  Australian Markets Directory 1 - Stallholder and Markets Australia Finding the best local handmade arts and crafts in #Australia for online shopping is always a challenge - often the best local artisans are not easily found in search.  For sure you can visit the markets yourself and make the face to face connection, but what if you are looking for a particular gift idea online? Here's our suggestions for local handmade crafters who are growth hacking their way to the top with some really inspired designs and marketing. A really insightful post covering a few detailed interviews with markets and artisan #handmade artists. 2 - Blogs for Handmade Australia Just featured a local Market I visited over the weekend and noted how it has a popular, regularly updated blog - but none of the stallholders have taken the time to comment or join in the conversation online.  This is a big missed opportunity and is room for growth - each exhibit...

Building your Handmade business website is one of the most rewarding and inspirational things you can undertake for your business. This Spring Offer is ideally suited to those with a handmade product range looking to make the most fro online shopping or those in need of a website rescue. Find Handmade I have just launched a new promotion at Find Handmade offering three select spots for a strictly limited release in time for the Christmas rush period. You can take advantage of this offer by joining the handmade community at Find handmade .

With a gorgeous handmade range like this! The products at Milly Molly Mandy are all designed, cut and handmade by Shannon and you can sense the real innocence in the eyes of the soft toys – something that engages with customers instantly. The stall layout is relaxed and inviting, with soft tones and products displayed like they are arranged in a child’s bedroom.  I could feel the quality of the fabric and the balance of the stuffing – and it is no accident that these toys are sold as heirloom quality. Every stallholder I meet at the markets has her own story, and Shannon Marshall shares her personal journey touching on her creative evolution as a #handmade #artisan to balancing motherhood and a thriving home business. Read the full story at Australia's Home of Handmade.

Blogs for Handmade Markets Just featured a local Market I visited over the weekend and noted how it has a popular, regularly updated blog - but none of the stallholders have taken the time to comment or join in the conversation online.  This is a big missed opportunity and is room for growth - each exhibitor at the market could take a few minutes and post their updates and social media profiles to the blog. Handmade is all about making connections and fostering relationships Keeping in touch is so important in the #handmade community and neglecting perfect opportunities like this are not helping your stall get found.  If you need help or advice on blog commenting , you can read an informative article at #findhandmade.com.au - it's really not as hard as you might imagine.   Australia's Stallholder Database Sharing the #Stallholder guide to the markets in Australia so you can take control of your own seo and make an impact in converting people searching o...

Fabric and Fibre Crafts Markets Australia has a proud tradition of self reliance, ingenuity and getting things done - and this is what makes our local handmade scene so unique - even the most humble backyard enthusiast has the tenacity to keep producing handmade products of such amazing quality and creativity. Basically we are doing super good - woot! With such a deep pool of talented independent and emerging artists, designers and crafters, it is no wonder people are looking increasingly online for access to a reputable, trusted authority to share what the community offers.  And there is such a mish mash of sometimes questionable content out there, which is where the demand for a trusted and relevant directory sprang from. Just have a look at some of the handmade blogs out there, with detailed step by step instructions and amazing visual aids to assist you in getting your handmade design just right. "Handmade Designs feature the best of local - people, places a...

Does your landing page convert visitors into customers? Getting your landing page right can be a great way to funnel potential buyers into your sales channel. The landing page acts as a gateway to the rest of your website, and customers who click through expect similar content and offers as was promised if they did indeed follow the link.  So always under promise and over deliver - people are shrewd and impatient with their time, so meaningful follow through is what is expected. * A strong call to action is essential to prompt the visitor into committing to the sale and following through with an order. *  Surround your sales pitch with quality relevant content that is freely available for the customer to access and hence gain some instant "value" or return on investment just by visiting your website. *  Capturing the buyers email address at any point in the buying cycle is worthwhile in that visitors who have previously shown an interest in your products wil...

Search Engine Optimization is improving the visibility and exposure of a website through careful attention to the website itself and the websites that link to it.  At The Australian Markets Directory, we have sustained success optimizing local sites for high traffic and exposure to buying customers – and we can do it for your site as well.  This means in real terms you can expect more calls, more traffic and hopefully more paying clients for your market stall . Most people use Google or Yahoo or Bing and type in a few words to search for some results.  And the results displayed are the closest match the search engine can find to give the correct, most accurate answer.  The search engine finds these results from the literally billions of pages of information online by giving each page a rating, or ranking, based on what the page is about (the content) and how trustworthy, reliable and authoritative the information is.

"Research is such an important part of starting a new Market Stall at your local markets. There is nothing worse than starting your market stall without knowing what the competition is. Some categories are basically overfull with stallholders and the competition is brutal! I wish that I had started off by thoroughly researching my niche and knowing at the bare minimum what the best five competitors were up to. There is nothing worse than finding out that you are just one of many sellers offering a similar product. Be yourself and most of all be honest about your products, the you will get repeat sales ” Abby, market stall with gift hampers and organics.

"If You Want To Create your own thriving market stall business and you are willing and able to put the time and energy into it, the possibilities literally are endless.  We get an amazing amount of feedback direct from our customers face to face – and honestly – there is nothing quite like that.  Being a market stall brings such immediate results from such a broad cross section of people.  With minimal investment of money, you have the potential to reach so many customers – but with an online listing in the Australian Artisan Markets Directory – we get the best of both worlds. The best advice I can give is to treat every customer like you would like to be treated – simple as that.  I know it sounds old school, but the saying still holds true – the customer is always right!”