Sunday, January 4, 2009

Share Your Favorite Crafts to Make Money Online

By Nicole Dean

An online blog may be the perfect place for you to start sharing your love of crafting. How would you also like to make money while you blog? Journaling online, called blogging, allows you to share your beautiful crafts and your talent with other crafty people. With simple to learn, free applications like Blogger.com or Wordpress, you can choose templates to suit your style. Your craft blog can be personally designed to illustrate:

Pictures: Post plenty of clear pictures of the items you made to show others what you can do. You may want to include before and after pictures if you are using common household items or if you are re-purposing other items to make your crafts. Take photos of each stage during the crafting process, and you'll get regular blog readers very quickly. Use a high quality digital camera to capture the true beauty of your crafts.

Describe the materials: When your readers look at the pictures of your crafts, they want to know exactly what materials they are looking at and where they can buy them. Be specific, using familiar names, even brand names, of the materials, specific colors, sizes, and shapes. The reader can then find the exact items they are looking for at their local craft stores or online. Detailed descriptions of materials used also helps by telling the internet search engines which items you're discussing on your blog. Google.com (tm) will then begin to send people to your blog when people search for items using words you mentioned in your description.

How To: It's always a wonderful idea to include a How To for some of your more popular or intricate crafts. This allows others to learn how they can make their own version of the crafts you have on display, for personal enjoyment or gift-giving. If you have a craft that's uniquely yours, you can even patent it and sell the instructions at a small cost to the reader.

Materials: A list of materials should be simple, but concise. Your readers will want to know what was used to make your craft and where to find the materials. Describe the materials in as much detail as possible, including the amounts and sizes. Include any substitutions if possible. Your reader will want to have a thorough list when they shop for the items needed for your craft. When your readers re-create your project at home, and it turns out perfectly (just like yours) they'll be sure to tell their friends and family members all about your blog, which turns into free advertising for you.

Selling ideas and crafts: Some of the best money-making opportunities for you could be selling your own crafts directly from your blog. You will see a quicker return on your investment if you can turn your own crafts and ideas into sales. By personalizing gifts during high gift-giving seasons like the Holidays and birthdays, you will quickly benefit from your growing crafter's blog. You may wish to set up a storefront on a site such as Etsy.com or eBay.com. You may also consider selling the patterns you've developed for your crafts, the templates for designs, or even selling advertising space.

You know how much time crafting takes, and how much talent, and patience. But, what you need to learn is how a blog about your own unique crafting can take your interest in crafting to a whole new level. If you let other crafters know about your abilities, a whole new world will await you... a world with a paycheck! - 16928

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