Today, please welcome guest contributor Daniela, Wanelo’s Community Manager. Located in sunny San Francisco, California, Daniela interacts with users and sellers daily and brings to us today some great tips for how to get started using Wanelo to promote the great variety of products you find as you browse the internet.
Back in December, I posted an article about Pinterest, a new ‘pin board’ site that was quickly gaining in popularity and becoming all the rage. In case you’ve not noticed yet, Zibbet has added a ‘Pin It’ button to your item listings page. That’s right, if you have a Pinterest account you can ‘pin’ items straight from Zibbet with just a click or two of your mouse!
Promoting our work online can seem like a daunting task. There’s so much great competition out there and being seen sometimes looks impossible. But don’t despair! Everyday new websites seem to be popping up offering opportunities for promotion. Wanelo is one of those sites. Wanelo, which is a combination of the words ‘want’, ‘need’ and ‘love’, is a fun place to post links to your own items as well as (more…)
We’re all in this business to sell the items that we’ve skillfully and lovingly created. I would venture to say that our least favorite task is promoting our art or craft. We would much rather be in our studios transforming our visions into tangible realities. However, as I said in the first article in this series, “If you’re serious about selling you need to get serious about selling…” I believe that you are up for the challenge so let’s review some key (more…)
Promoting your products comes with the territory. I believe that the popular line from the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, he (they) will come” only applies to baseball diamonds built in the middle of cornfields! When it comes to selling, after you build it you have to promote it. Finding what works requires a lot of trial and error testing which also takes a lot of time. Selling, both online and off, is hard work. (more…)
