Sell Handmade Online for Less

Selling handmade online can be expensive, with all the listing fees, commissions and monthly fees some sites charge their is no room for profit. The Handmade Artists’ Shop is trying to change this as we only charge $5.00 a month with no listing fees and no commissions. That is less than 17 cents a day to have the ability to have a shop online. The Handmade Artists’ Shop also does a tremendous amount of promotion for each individual item listed. We have our little secrets about how we accomplish this, in short, we work hard!

We have recently relaunched the HAFshop almost 2 months ago and are growing in leaps and bounds. Traffic has been steadily increasing and new vendors are joining everyday. We are approaching the 200 vendor mark as we currently have 178 vendors online. The exposure you receive from having a shop with us is incredible for the price. We also are offering an annual plan of $50.00 a year which is less than 14 cents a day. The other day I was checking out another handmade marketplace who was running an annual plan, they said only xxx amount of annual spots open before we raise the price. This isn’t the first venue I’ve seen do this, it is sort of very disturbing to know that these venues really just want your money. I’ve been approached by several people asking, when are you raising the price? Our answer is never. Please note that this was put in writing!

The Handmade Artists’ Shop is keeping it’s fees down so that artists can actually make a couple of bucks for their efforts. Some fees are so high the artist has no chance. I had someone say they pay %50 commission fee on a well known tutorial site. So they sell a tutorial for $10 and get $5.00, I personally think that sticks. That is one reason why we do not charge commissions or listing fees, your items only expire when they sell or run out of quantity. Plus we offer automatic downloads for our tutorials as well.

I believe the Handmade Artists’ Shop will become the new standard for selling handmade online, for a few specific reasons. One, it is affordable. Two, we are only allowing handmade, no resellers, no unaltered vintage, and no non-handmade supplies. Three, we are planning on cutting off open registration between 10-20 thousand vendors. May sound like a lot of vendors, but honestly this does not even make a dent on the number of vendors some of the larger online marketplaces have, not even close. Our thought is that if we limit the number of vendors and move the site to a juried site we will be able to only allow high quality vendors in categories that have a little room for growth.

Tags: art, artisan, artist, Creative Handmade Artisans, Handmade, handmade marketplace

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