Bead Craft Thoughts - The Importance Of Marketing: Check Both Community And Global Market

The information in this article is predicated on 2 guesses: That you have one or more beading projects you would like to make profitable, and that you've some level of inventory at the ready for when sales begin coming in. If that's you, then this article will outline a few avenues open to you for "passively marketing" bead craft ideas .

Note that passive marketing doesn't mean "no work necessary," or "you don't have to talk to anyone." Rather, it means that the bigger bulk of the work occurs on the "front end" and that once the work is concluded, your passive promoting efforts will continue more or less on their own, indefinitely, with only minimal added effort on your part.

This is important for you as a bead crafter because it frees up more of your time, which you can dedicate to your present beading projects, or, if you feel you're ready for it, develop wholly new beading projects to expand your line.

We will cover two examples of passive marketing. One, promoting your completed beading projects locally, and the other, advertising them globally.

One of the very finest methods to market your bead craft ideas locally is via consignment. Here, your aim is to show your line to people with an established business and ask if they'll display and sell your products in exchange for a portion of the profits. This works to your benefit on a number of levels. First, the established business already has regular customers you can make sales from. Furthermore, most will let you to display your business cards next to your wares, so if a purchaser likes what you produce, their next order may be made direct from you. Also, once you have an existing relationship of this sort, it is generally easy to introduce new products to your display as you expand the number of beading projects in your line.

The key here is not to limit yourself to only one or two such relationships, but to try to engage as many sources as you can keep supplied. Not only does this increase your publicity, but it also allows you to see how several shops handle your merchandise, and you can use this information to see where your products sell the best, then attempt to gain a similar in-store position at other stores carrying your line. If your beading projects are focused on necklaces/bracelets, you could obviously be drawn to locally owned jewelry stores in your town, but I recommend you to think outside the box here! Hospital gift stores, gift stores in retirement homes and old fashioned country stores are all great pleases to inquire, as are general gift stores and specialty shops like Hallmark, and any place that caters to local artists!

Considering the international market, the very best thing you can do to advertise your projects is niche online marketing. There are dozens of books on this topic, and it is beyond the scope of this article to fully explore the process, but in broad strokes, what you need to do in order to market your beading projects in this manner are:

1) Identify keywords describing your beading projects that get a few daily searches (10-30 per day) and have minimum competition (under 50k).

2) Design a niche site around these keywords to drive traffic to your page

3) Describe what you are offering. These descriptions should be mixed in with original content on your website

4) Offer would be customers a means of contacting you

5) Offer them a means to buy from you online

Again, the beauty of passive marketing is that once the primary work is done, your bead craft ideas get publicity day in, and day out with very little effort on your part.

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