How to promote your madeit store
Below are 10 tips to promote your madeit store as well as some great tips from one
of our sellers.
   
1

Talk the talk. Tell friends & family about your craft, word of mouth is the best form of advertising.
• send your family and friends an email with a short description of your label, a couple of low resolution pics and a link to your madeit store. Kindly ask them to forward this onto family and friends and so on. 
   
2

Small cards go a long way. Order or print out business cards with your logo/label name and your madeit shop url. Hand them out to potential customers, friends or strangers.

   
3

Include daily. Add your madeit shop url to your email signature. Simple but effective. Your direct shop url is www.madeit.com.au/username

   
4

Share your craft. Start a blog - blogs are a great way of promoting your work & store. For more information on blogging visit whip up. Become regular visitors of other blogs and post comments. Add your madeit url to your blog so buyers can click straight to your shop. Madeit web badges can also be found here.
   
5 Be Social Part 1. start a facebook page for your business and post updates. When you post updates ask your friends to post it on their page. Add your facebook page link to your website, blog & madeit profile.
   
6 Be Social Part 2. Join twitter & post updates. You can use the "share" feature on your listing and store front. Add your twitter link to your website, blog & madeit profile. Become a friend of madeit www.twitter.com/madeit as we love to forward sellers tweets.
   
7 Spread the news. Start a newsletter for your existing customers, keep an email list of your customers. If you go to the markets then have an email list form where visitors can register for your newsletter. An example of an email company is mad mini, it's a free service for up to 100 contacts.
   
8 Be descriptive. Use as many descriptive words as possible in your listings. You can simply list words that refer to your listing at the bottom this way you'll appear in as many searches as possible. Don't forget to add plenty of details about your product in your listing.
   
9

Take great photos. Having clear photos will help you sell your product.

• Try photographing them on a plain background, this way your product stands out and the background isn't distracting from your wonderful handmade product.

• Take a few pictures from different angles or a detailed shot.

• Try not to use a flash, natural light is best to show off your products & wares.

• Set up a dedicated photography area and test what works best for your product, take note of the time of day this way you'll get the same result every time.

   
10

Gillian from eclectic moi has some great tips on promoting your store.

• I find listing often really helps.

• Having a FULL SHOP gives the customer confidence in you as a seller.

• I've purchased a few front page spots and that also is a great way to attract people to your shop and achieve sales.

• I use twitter, and that brings loads of views.

• My blog gets a reasonable amount of traffic (i've been blogging since 2006) so having the Madeit badges on there helps also.

• My girlfriends always carry some of my cards around in there wallets and hand them out to other people, your girlfriends are often very proud of you, and can be quite bold in giving cards out (gotta love your girlfriends)

• Support other Madeit Sellers - this will give you some feedback if you don't already have any, it will show you how other sellers work their shops so you can get an understanding how you would like to be treated as a customer, and in turn give your customers the best service you are able.

and Most importantly
Be Proud & enthusiastic about your shop and your creations 
   
 

If you have any suggestions on how sellers can promote their store please email hello@madeit.com.auYou can also read our designer spotlight sections for helful tips on promoting your store.