Day 4 What Happened?

[Brilliant Beads]

Mountaindreamers, good job, and nice to have some time to create and replenish.

I retook a bunch of photos yesterday, and listed several lampwork beads and some jewellery on youcraft.  I like it there.

I have some more photos to take, and listings to write...my unfavourite part of the process.  I'd love some tips on more creative, interesting listing text.

Have a great Sunday everyone!

[mountaindreamers]

thanks  for the encouragement, I am as I speak hooking up youcraft, waiting on an email to confirm. As for descriptions , I like to link my creations to places I been, feelings, and textures. ; ) Laura

[Fairy Cardmaker]

Wow.  That's all I have to say. And I'm sorry that it happened to you.

I've received this advice about phishy phone calls and I suppose the same goes for links.  If someone purports to be from some place, DO NOT believe them.  Hang up and phone the place yourself from their known 1-800 number (example: someone phones you from the credit card company or bank and tries to tell you their's been suspicious activity on your account and they want to "verify" some things with you and then proceed to ask for your account number, etc.)

So, same for emails.  If they say such and such site, try Googling for the site yourself.  Although, if it is a true, malicious site (and not just a redirect fake link), then you'll still get messed.  So, not sure if it's really great advice afterall.

Abstinence is the best insurance!  Don't click! heh.

[PillowThrowDecor]

Wow I am so sorry to hear everyone is having a problem with Craigslist. I guess I have just been lucky???

I am still catching up!    I tried setting up a website and am stuck already. But I am going to plug away at it for a little while longer.

Donated some pillows to a Rotary club Wine Festival.  i don't know how much money the pillows raised but I know I am getting a few more customers out of it.  I saw lots of business cards were picked up.  

Got some cute little store tags designed and made up.
Have designed a postcard and will see about taking it to the printers next week.  500 at 35 cents each...or 1000 at 25 cents.  How does that sound?

Took a break this weekend from everything else.  But it is back at it.

Christine  

[kimbuktu]

My husband and I took a four day Anniversary weekend to visit family, stay in B&B's, and do some fun stuff.  So I haven't been keeping up totally with all the assignments.  

But, I did pass out my card to all three B&B owners as well as some of the guests staying there.  And they ASKED for them, I didn't even have to be pushy.  Who knows, something may come of it.

[GalleriaLinda]

PillowThrowDecor - you can get better pricing with the online printers because they have such huge volume.

http://www.overnightprints.com is used a lot by online sellers and I have read in forums that they are highly recommended. I am going to try them.

Great place to get your business cards and other printing too. They have design templates but you can upload your own art graphics as well.

POSTCARDS - single sided or double sided:
Qty  Single  Double  
100  $29.95  $39.95  
250  $69.95  $79.95  
500  $74.95  $89.95  
1000  $89.95  $114.95

[PillowThrowDecor]

Good prices for small runs!

I'll have to check them out.

These are awesome to hand out, mail out, stuff mailboxes, put in orders, make book marks out of.

Thanks so much.

Christine

[GalleriaLinda]

I have not done postcards but was really thinking all those uses like you said - really kind of using them like business cards. You have peaked my interest - I am going to do it!

[PillowThrowDecor]

I am going to ask polkadot if she can fix me up with a template that has a "gallery" on the front with say 8 or 9 pillow pics so that or I may do my sewing fairy on the front (people love the fairy and it gets attention) and this gallery on the back.  If I were to mail that out 4 times a year it will keep clients in touch with my new product and hopefully there will be something that causes them to come to https://icraftgifts.com/pillowthrowdecor  to check it out.

By the way if we keep putting our links in our forum posts does that help with SEO?

Christine

[PillowThrowDecor]

The postcard place is just awesome... Just played with it a bit but I will have to do my layout first and then up load the layout as one jpeg. Too cool!

And the price is just so reasonable.  I think I may try a small run first at 9.95 and then dive in.  

[GalleriaLinda]

Let us know how your postcards go - if you order, post to us your impression of the quality.

I am not sure if links in the forum are indexed. iCraft techs would need to answer that as many forums do not come up in searches.

[iCraft Admin]

Sorry about your computer trouble, Linda!
I admire how, despite everything, you've managed to turn this incident into a "teachable moment" for all of us. That's a great attitude!

Just wanted to share this link with those who tweet “Hundreds duped by Twitter phishing attacks” http://tinyurl.com/qpurow

And yes, links on Forum will be indexed by Google, as any other link on different sections of the site.

[GalleriaLinda]

Wow - another phishing attack on Twitter and Facebook? Twitter is so fun because followers share so many great links. But how are you to know if one is bad when you do not personally know your 2000 followers?

I don't have the answer. I had trouble with one Twitter link with malware in the past.

I guess be careful and prepared to handle issues with strong computer antivirus and antimalware programs.

On another note, it is great that links on the forum are indexed by search engines - one step closer to being found!