Hiya
I'm just wondering how and where people sell most of their items? I've got a website and haven't had a single sale through it since it went live in December. I update it on a regular basis and am on page 1 of Google under the search terms Hand Stitched Pictures, Needle Felted Accessories, Stitchery Kits. I get over 100 hits a week on the website, but not a single sale !!
I tried selling through both ebay and etsy, but with no luck, although I did sell a couple of the felt brooches I make through ebay.
There are quite a few people I'm in touch with through various blogs and forums, all of whom seem to have regular orders to either retail customers or wholesale orderr. A friend of mind does knitted food and is completely inundated with orders, as is another friend who makes felt bits and bobs.
I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.
I've got a number of my pictures displayed in a local village teashop and have sold one picture through them since February - I change the pictures there on a monthly basis. I also sell through Not on the High Street, and again have only had one sale since February.
I'm doing a craft fair next Monday and am hoping that this will generate some sales, but don't know whether I'll then get returning customers from it - I need to try and find a reasonably steady source of income (no matter how small) so that I don't feel like I'm completely wasting my time - which is how I'm feeling at the moment.
Any ideas and comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm just wondering how and where people sell most of their items? I've got a website and haven't had a single sale through it since it went live in December. I update it on a regular basis and am on page 1 of Google under the search terms Hand Stitched Pictures, Needle Felted Accessories, Stitchery Kits. I get over 100 hits a week on the website, but not a single sale !!
I tried selling through both ebay and etsy, but with no luck, although I did sell a couple of the felt brooches I make through ebay.
There are quite a few people I'm in touch with through various blogs and forums, all of whom seem to have regular orders to either retail customers or wholesale orderr. A friend of mind does knitted food and is completely inundated with orders, as is another friend who makes felt bits and bobs.
I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.
I've got a number of my pictures displayed in a local village teashop and have sold one picture through them since February - I change the pictures there on a monthly basis. I also sell through Not on the High Street, and again have only had one sale since February.
I'm doing a craft fair next Monday and am hoping that this will generate some sales, but don't know whether I'll then get returning customers from it - I need to try and find a reasonably steady source of income (no matter how small) so that I don't feel like I'm completely wasting my time - which is how I'm feeling at the moment.
Any ideas and comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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