Selling Handmade Stallholder

I’m at the markets somewhere, most weekends

I travel to markets each weekend to meet and interview emerging and established stallholders and keep abreast of the ‘word on the street’ so I know what you’re going through and where you want to be. 

Plus, I pay my mortgage and support my wife and three kids solely through my own websites – so I know what it takes to get an online up and running and busy with customers and web traffic.

In our travels working our own online businesses and as web creatives we have met plenty of enthusiastic passionate people with emerging artisan businesses who are perhaps not quite where they want to be when it comes to selling online.

Yes, it is hard work, but getting your handmade products and services out there so you can easily found online in search engines is as simple as a $10 listing in the handmadebyme.info directory.  Meeting like-minded passionate people who share your vision and appreciate the freedom and flexibility on offer of working from home is something to treasure.

Just imagine, setting yourself free from exhausting commuting hours, of sitting through mindless team meetings, of sitting surrounded by beige cubicles with staff eating noodles from styrofoam cups.  Yes, it is possible and yes, you are almost there simply by having a realistic dream and some honest talent.

Learning to be assertive and setting your own limits and goals is all a part of being in command of your own business.  Once your handmade enterprise escalates beyond word of mouth and attending weekend markets, you will appreciate how dynamically you will value your time.  It is literally like achieving a lifelong goal to finally gain some work life balance to appreciate the simple freedom of choosing when you work and which job offers you choose to act upon.  Join handmadebyme.info now for $10.

Split Testing

Split testing is a measurable way of keeping tabs on your website and proving whether certain approaches to marketing and promotions are effective.  At Newcastle Digital, we like to test your site so it does not become a “Billboard in the Desert” with a single lost traveller stumbling by each week – which is nice and pretty but not much use in raking in extra turnover.  You want visitors, converted into customers so each morning when you check your email you have a few nice paypal payments and some orders to ship.

Weekend Markets Guide

Markets Farmers Expansion

Like all markets, growing your production is a steady process.
Seasonal Conditions alone each year impacts heavily on both amount produced as well as overall vintage, that affects horticulture, aquaculture, across all farmers markets and local weekend business.  No matter how good your practices and procedures, a poor quality harvest will severly limit your product potential.

Promoting Internal Pages

Promoting Internal Pages and Deep Links

A well designed home page of your website should intuitively lead visitors towards where they want to go within the site.  Over time, visitors will prefer certain internal pages to others, with the dominant deep links becoming search result worthy standalone.  This is where the internal pages of your site also become destinations in their own right. 

Give Visitors what they expect - to drill down into the content to find sub-niches, topics of interest and other relevant content that is worth investigating – including outbound links to authority sites.

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By spending your limited online marketing budget reaching out to like minded individuals who value the content you have surrounded your website with (like blogs, social media, domain name match sites). 

Capturing the attention of the online reader is important when too many articles are awash with meaningless drivel.  This means there is a genuine opportunity for fresh content-driven copy writing for niche specific articles.  Newcastle Digital offers a comprehensive hand written article service.

The effort saved by targeting your search engine optimisation efforts to three or twelve key article topics, and then promoting them across the web as stand alone pages of interest, will generate a handsome legacy of linkjuice for your primary site.  SEO can be done in two week campaigns for $1000 – this gets you one the front page for your keywords.

For many enthused creatives, SEO starts a lifelong journey of research, entrepreneurship and personal development.  For others it is a drudge.  I love it and will deliver on what I offer.