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Make Your Mark podcasts #2, 3 and 4 are focused on Etsy.com, a marketplace where artists and photographers can sell their original art, art and photography prints, plus anyone that creates anything handmade. This first one is an overview of how Etsy works and how to get started in a general introduction.
Your host Deborah Carney is joined on this series of podcasts by Esty seller Karen Helmrich, Unkamen Gifts. Follow along as Deborah gets started at Etsy setting up Cool Clay Jewelry, an Etsy shop to sell her own canvas, fabric, and prints on clay pendants and jewelry. Not much to see yet! But will be building over the next several weeks.
Some urls mentioned in the show:
Etsy’s Blog
Karen’s Twitter
Deborah’s Twitter
Karen’s Blog
Our Handmade Gifts Blog and Community
Be sure to leave questions or comments here, follow Make Your Mark on Twitter or email us any questions to makeyourmark at teamloxly.com
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Welcome to the first edition of Make Your Mark. Today we talk about why you should have your own website to showcase your art and photography, even if you are selling online already through other companies, venues or websites.
This is a very basic podcast, if you already have a site that focuses on your art branding you might not want to listen, but if you are new and need direction, you are involved in sites like CafePress, Imagekind, Etsy or eBay, you will want to hear this.
After you listen to this podcast, I recommend you listen to:
Affiliate ABCs – Website Basics. This podcast talks about basic pages every website needs, whether you are an affiliate or an artist/photographer starting a website.
For those of you just joining us here is the intro podcast. And be sure to follow us on Twitter!
What would you like our next topic to be? Drop us a comment. Let us know if this podcast was helpful and what you need to know next. We have several planned topics, but we are flexible and want to hear what *you* have to say.
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Make Your Mark is a new podcast where we will be talking about how to market your art and photography online using your own website, a variety of POD (Print On Demand) companies, places where you list originals for sale and many other means. This will include using online exposure to help you sell offline and the other way around.
Your host for Make Your Mark is Deborah Carney, former Affiliate Manager for POD (Print on Demand) companies CafePress and Imagekind, that currently has her own startup POD that specializes in art and photography prints.
To kick off we are going to be starting with the basics, like building a website and using that as a base for all your marketing. If you have questions you would like answered, if you would like to be interviewed for the show, either as a provider of a service for artists/photographers or as an artist/photographer that would like to learn more, send an email to makeyourmark at teamloxly.com.
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