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There are tons of places to market crafts online! But what are the quick, affordable and effective places you can market your handmade and get it noticed. Well here are two quick and simple places!

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Advertising crafts online is a great way to reach a larger audience of shoppers that you might other wise miss if you only advertise your crafts offline. Many handmade artists overlook the benefit of marketing crafts online or they don’t believe it is worth their while. But with more and more people shopping online everyday, advertising crafts online is definitely a smart way to go.

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When selling handmade crafts online, most people instantly think of etsy.com or artfire.com. Both are absolutely great places to set up an online handmade craft shop. But simply creating a shop won’t get your handmade crafts noticed by shoppers or the sales you want.

You must use effective marketing techniques that will drive targeted traffic to your shop. Sounds easy right! Well online marketing isn’t as easy as it may sounds. There are a variety of techniques, search engine optimization, link building, pay-per-click campaigns, social networking, email campaigns and the list goes on and on.

Some handmade artists believe that simply having a blog where they blog about their handmade crafts will get them noticed. And unfortunately blogging doesn’t always get you noticed either.

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