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Lettuce Craft Featured Project
~ One of my projects, Nature-Inspired Scrabble Tile Necklaces,
is featured at Lettuce Craft, a wonderful, busy craft forum. I'm going
to write a post about the site soon. I'm still new and learning my way
around. ~
Payhip Upgrades Their Memberships Selling Feature
It’s been entirely rebuilt from scratch to help you sell any type of membership to your customers. With memberships you can now add “Posts” which let you share content with your members in a flexible & interactive way. Of course you’ll also be able to upload any files you’d like with each membership post. You can also allow your members to comment on posts, building up a community around your membership...
This link leads to their announcement about their upgraded system for selling memberships.
Payhip is a great place to sell your memberships, courses, music, digitals, physical products, subscriptions, etc. You can join for free and open a free shop or use their selling links feature to sell your products from your website or blog. When are you going to take advantage of this remarkable selling venue?
Payhip was started by 2 brothers, Abs and Kahin Farah, who live in England. Payhip is a profitable company that is doing very well. I'm happy to say that I don't expect them to fold like so many selling venues have done over the past several years. Check out this site, which if full of features for sellers and totally free to join and open a shop or use their selling links.
Why Are Etsy Sellers On Strike Yet Again?
Etsy sellers launch a week-long strike over increased fees was written by Jaclyn Diaz and reported today at NPR.org. Many sellers have launched a week-long protest by closing their shops and other actions. This is in response to the recent in a long line of fee increases announced by CEO Josh Silverman. Seems like 59,000+ shop owners have signed the petition. A quick web search will show results for strikes during each of the past few years.
I don't feel that Etsy morale will improve for disenchanted handmades sellers. Somewhere along the way, during the past 12-15 years, Etsy management felt that to stay afloat they had to expand away from pure handmade support. They added a complicated fee system and have raised prices so often and by such a high percentage that it has crushed not only the bottom lines but the spirits of many handmade sellers. I closed my shops at Etsy a couple of years ago but not because of changes at the site. Sometimes I miss being there. It's at times like this that I'm glad I left though, which makes me feel sad. It was exciting to be a part of Etsy, back then.
Dwanda,
Artfire and others folded and it seems like Etsy is having to take drastic steps
every year to remain viable. These decisions have invited in questionable resellers and consistently driven away Etsy creatives. I was at Zibbet when years ago there was a mass exodus of
Etsy sellers to that selling venue in response to insufferable changes.
Most of them returned to Etsy when Zibbet did not deliver what they were
expecting. Sellers need to seriously ask themselves if any selling website will fulfill their expectations. If not, what is the best course of action for their brands?
While
the popularity of Etsy seems bleak for many, others are
realizing what I had begun to feel some time ago. The best business
practice for the future of creating and making is to learn how to market
and sell from your own web spaces. There are still a few venues left
where the income of the creative is not gouged. One of them is Payhip. Another is Meylah. Find Meylah store setup info here.
Learning
to self-promote and sell from our own blogs and online shops will
provide peace of mind to start, which will go a long way in generating
income. It is difficult to focus on creating good products and
effectively marketing them when there is misery about the selling
platform and constant fear of what will come next. It can be bad for the creative psyche to be in an atmosphere that has become increasingly riddled with controversy.
New Resources Section At PCL
A new section has been added to RESOURCES: Forums/Groups/Social. The first entry added is the crafting website GetCrafty. What they say about themselves:
Welcome to the Arts & Crafts Forum at GetCrafty.com. Our site is a friendly community dedicated to all things Arts & Crafts related, just some of the subjects we cover here are: Crafts, Paper Craft, Crafting, Kids Crafts, Craft Ideas, Christmas Crafts, Crafts for Kids, Craft Supplies, Craft Shows, Halloween Craft, Easy Crafts and more.
This website is active. I counted 23 posts made today and at least 7 yesterday. As with most social sites today, spam proliferates. Bypass the posts on egg donation, cryptocurrency and sports betting and pick out the creative threads that inspire you.
Instagram On Desktop Now
Did you know you can now use Instagram from your desktop/laptop? Even to create posts? I had left a few yrs ago and went back with a new acct this week and found out. So, we're no longer restricted to our smartphones. Here's my link. If you're on Insta, consider following me if you like my shop, Printaphoria, and I'll return the favor. https://www.instagram.com/artsycrafterystudio/
New Page At Printaphoria & Creative Living
You can now find links to Amazon-published paperbacks and upcoming ebooks at the new page Amazon Books. The publications are good for gift-giving as well as personal use. Thanks for visiting!
News: Baroqoo
I have just been in contact with the team at Baroqoo today after noticing that my monthly payment was not removed by PayPal. I was told that while Baroqoo is closing at the end of June, they did not feel comfortable taking payments for June. They said they did not have the success they had hoped for and that having public venues to get the Baroqoo name know came to a halt with Covid-19.
No new handmades selling sites seem to be able to make it anymore. While money can be a major issue and COVID threw a monkey wrench into the mix, I wonder if it's something else? I remember more failures before the virus hit. Many massively-successful enterprises in other industries made it through the most astounding odds. There just seems to have been a slump in handmades selling support during the past 10 yrs from which the cottage industry never recovered.
What do you think is the most significant cause(s) for the failure of new handmades selling venues?