Websites or ecommerce sites to sell crafts online

Posted on August 11, 2011 by admin

Selling online is a great way to increase sales and get exposure.

The choice for craft sellers is whether to use a standard website or to use an eCommerce site.

Making that choice may be the difference between the success and failure of the craft venture.

Some crafters and artisans go down the road of individual websites.

Now individual websites can be very effective in showing off your crafts and showing yourself to your potential buyers.

The advantages of the individual website are that it is owned and managed by the crafts person.

This allows them to the freedom to design and layout the website to suit their tastes.

There are many successful and excellent craft websites which sell crafts very effectively.

The disadvantage of websites are also very obvious.

The major problems with individual websites aside from the cost are the difficulty in generating traffic.

Traffic is the lifeblood of any website. You can have the best looking website in the world but without traffic the site is useless.

Now ecommerce websites in the past have been restrictive in both the content and layout of their sites.

However modern ecommerce sites are now full of features never found in individual sites

And of course ecommerce sites develop and create traffic lots of traffic

The modern ecommerce websites allow craft persons to not only set up their stall but to avail of a whole host of features that individual website cannot compete with.

Craftgo offer more than most.

With Craftgo craft persons can set up craft stalls in their own domains and indeed in multiple domains.

So how does it work?

Craftgo.com is the generic website for Craftgo but within that overall site Craftgo supports

domains in most countries.

If you are an irish craft person you can set up in the .ie domain and your stall will be featured on the .ie and .com domains.

The flag symbols on the top of each website indicates all the countries selling crafts on Craftgo.

The use of individual and linked domains has many advantages for craft sellers.

You can choose your currency and sell and get paid in that currency.

The .ie domain has a Euro default so you can sell in Euros

The .co.uk is in pounds and the .us is in US dollars and so on.

This simplifies the currency settings and makes buying and selling simpler.

The default currency is the US dollar and it is shown in all sales.

The use of individual domains allows craft sellers use their locality to market and sell their crafts.

The flag emblems allow buyers to look at crafts from different countries as well as different categories.

This allows craft stalls to stand out and not get lost as in other craft ecommerce sites.

You also get as standard very simple and intuititive set up of your stall.

In fact a stall can be set up in less than an hour.

And Craftgo offers sellers gift coupon vouchers to sell online.

This opens up all occasional and seasonal shopping to craft sellers.

Craftgo has a large social media with blogs and forums which are very useful for both interacting with other craft people but also a way of promoting your craft stall.

Craftgo uses a seller corner to promote sellers on their sites.

So if you are serious about selling crafts online look at what Craftgo has to offer you won’t be disappointed.