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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 .

Finding an authentic Stallholder at the Local Markets 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. Charlie Middleton The Charlie Middleton line is simple, minus the bling decorations of chasing temporary trends, but instead just presenting well designed handmade leather goods. Ben says that using quality materials and processes is what people are looking for. As for getting meaningful feedback and having the opportunity to test new products-- it is as much a demanding task to know who to listen to-- as it is to make it when you have a good thing. Ben oper...

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...

C riticism Is Opportunity Clearly we all have a hard time dealing with negative feedback. To the point everyone around you protects you from it. But criticism is just an opportunity to improve. An opportunity to improve & be better at what you do today than you were yesterday. I look at failure in the same way. If you fail at something, next time you are much more likely to succeed due to the first hand lessons learned. External criticism is exactly the same – except it is other people telling you how to reach further success. This guy does some inspirational work - have a look at http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/tutorials/

Account Creation There are not many variables that can be modified to dramatically increase retention of visitors and convert a visitor into a customer like not requiring account creation. When you force visitors to create an account and verify their email address prior to placing an order, you create an opportunity for the visitor to step out of the buying funnel and leave your site altogether. This means you have lost a potential customer simply by requiring account creation. We have seen dramatic increases in conversion simply by removing the account creation step. People who are ready to buy see email confirmation as unnecessary and will look elsewhere. Limit the steps and clicks between the visitor deciding to buy and actually carrying through with the order and you get an increase in sales. If you must have account creation, make it a natural part of the buying process that occurs simultaneously with placing an order – this way you get the sale and the account created wi...

The Value Of Markets Directory At The Australian Markets Directory, we have collected the attention of a vast group of people with similar interests, beliefs and experiences – that being Local Markets.  And as a focal point for these many businesses, markets organizers and enthusiasts, we are able to offer a unique selling proposition – having the industry as a whole at your fingertips. Now we have the attention and focus of the Australian Markets Community, it is important to channel that value into the best proposition for new and existing member of the directory.  And we do this by offering a direct connection between your individual concern and the wider markets community.  After we have assessed your application and where applicable, edited your submission to meet our strict quality control guidelines, you will be granted a listing in the directory.  This opens up great opportunities for your brand and with the consistent online promotion of the Directory, incr...

How Online Directories help Search Engines Online directories work much like the old telephone directory, except the Australian markets Directory is a niche –specific resource – which means it carries serious weight with the search engines.  When the search engine spider crawls through the directory, it establishes links and paths through the sites listed and with the category specific keywords – so your site is seen as part of the larger whole.  This works great for getting your site seen in the right neighbourhood – alongside your competitors and fellow market stallholders.

"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!”