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15 Minute Craft Website Tips  

My name is Nicolette Tallmadge, I currently run my own hand crafted jewelry design business. I’ve been designing and selling jewelry for over 11 years. I got the idea about The Crafted Webmaster when I was working as a full time and freelance web designer. I created my first site in 1996 by learning HTML in a magazine and used that experience to get a job designing web sites for a living. While designing sites full time and on a freelance basis, I was also designing and selling my own handmade jewelry and used my web experience to promote myself online. During that time I helped many of my fellow artisans with setting up their own web sites and with advice on how to promote their business on the web. I now run my jewelry business full time and I’ve built The Crafted Webmaster so I can provide information to other fellow artists and craftsmen so they can learn how to promote their work on the Internet.

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    5 Reasons Why Blogging is Good for Artists [Show Notes]

    Unless you've been under a rock for the past couple years, you would have heard of blogs and blogging. You might be thinking "What's the big deal? Why should I bother with blogging?". If you're an artist promoting or selling your art online, blogging can be a powerful tool in your marketing arsenal. In this show, I'll give you 5 reasons why blogging is good for artists.


    1. Blogs can drive traffic to an existing website

    • • blogs tend to have fresher content than static sites
    • • blogs attract more search engine traffic
    • • you can funnel that traffic to your website

    2. Links to your blog can travel far and wide

    • • bloggers like to link to each other
    • • readers like to share good information
    • • reporters are using blog to find story ideas
    • • more incoming links mean more traffic and new visitors

    3. Blogs can allow you to connect with your customers

    • • art collectors and buyers of handmade items love to meet the artist
    • • use your blog to talk about your art, inspiration, your art process
    • • use your blog to establish your expertise, customer service, or news

    4. Blogs can help you pre-sell your art

    • • use your blog to talk about new work and products
    • • use your blog to announce sales and special
    • • use your blog to document new works in progress

    5. Blogging doesn't require technical expertise

    • • you can set up a blog for free
    • • you don't need to know HTML or web design
    • • you can set up a blog within 5 minutes or less

    If you're thinking about starting a blog or if you already have a blog and you want to be more effective, sign up for my FREE e-course "50 Blogging Tips for Artists". Get a free tip in your email every day that will help make your blogging life easier. Sign up now!

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    5 Reasons Why Blogging is Good for Artists

    Unless you've been under a rock for the past couple years, you would have heard of blogs and blogging. You might be thinking "What's the big deal? Why should I bother with blogging?". If you're an artist promoting or selling your art online, blogging can be a powerful tool in your marketing arsenal. In this show, I'll give you 5 reasons why blogging is good for artists.

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    How to Find and Work with a Web Designer [Show Notes]

    Whether you're building your website for the first time or you're redesigning a current site, one of the things you might consider doing is to hire a web designer to help you out. But how do you find a good web designer and how do you make sure that everything goes smoothly once you do? Here's a few tips on how to find a web designer and how to work with them once you do:


    1. Know what you want before you get a designer

    • • Figure out why you you need and website and what you need it for
    • • Look at other websites to get ideas for yours
    • • Know how much you can spend for your website


    2. Places to find a web designer

    • • Get recommendations from family, friends, and colleagues
    • • Get recommendations from associations and chambers of commerce
    • • Look through Craigslist, Elance, and Guru.com


    3. Research your web designer before you hire them

    • • Check previous work
    • • Interview past customers
    • • Ask for a quote
    • • Get terms in writing


    4. Working with your web designer

    • • Keep the lines of communication open
    • • Learn to be flexible
    • • Participate in the process
    • • Address problems as soon as they start

    If you need more information on how to hire and work with a great web designer, as well as information on how to interview a web designer, how to avoid a bad designer, and how save money and time managing your web project, you get more information at www.howtohireawebdesigner.com

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    How to Find and Work with a Web Designer

    Whether you're building your website for the first time or you're redesigning a current site, one of the things you might consider doing is to hire a web designer to help you out. But how do you find a good web designer and how do you make sure that everything goes smoothly once you do? On today's show, I'll give you a few tips on how to find a web designer and how to work with them once you do.

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    How to Market Your Website Off the Web [Show Notes]

    We all know that there's lots of ways you can market your website online...but don't forget that there are plenty of opportunities to market your website offline too! Here's how:

    1. Put your website address on all your marketing materials

    • • Business cards
    • • Brochures
    • • Letterhead
    • •Postcards

    2. Put your website address on your product packaging

    • • Hangtags
    • • Product cards
    • • Gift Wrapping

    * If you sell through galleries, check with them to make sure that they don't have any objections to you putting your web address your product packaging


    3. Put your website address in all of your outgoing mail

    • • Bills
    • • Shipping inserts in outgoing shipments
    • • Regular correspondence


    4. Talk about your website in your phone messages

    • • Announce your website address in your "on hold" messages
    • • Add your website address on your voicemail messages


    5. Tips on marketing offline

    • • Don't dump people off on your homepage, give them a special page to land on.

    • • Make your "landing pages" trackable. Use services like Google Analytics to see how many people you're getting through your offline methods

    • • Give people a reason to go to your website. Make special offers on your business cards, phone numbers, product packaging, etc. Be sure to capture their information on your mailing list. If you don't have a email list but would like to learn how to build one, you can get a FREE copy of my article series "How to Plan and Start a Great Email Newsletter ".

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    How to Marketing Your Website Off the Web

    We all know that there's lots of ways you can market your website online...but don't forget that there are plenty of opportunities to market your website offline too! I'll tell you how on today's show.

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