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Promote Your Craft Site for Free*
Right now I'm pretty busy
helping to get HowTo Universe ready for It's 'official' launch. I'm
really excited about some of the things we have planned for this section
but I'm sworn to secrecy.
I can tell you this... we will
have free craft patterns. My background is in pattern making and
designing. Soft toys, dolls and soft sculpture are my specialties. If
you can give me a photo or drawing of something I can usually create a
pattern for it. (or something pretty close.) I will be offering some of
the patterns I've created in the past for free at HowTo Universe.
We are planning a very large
library of free patterns. This is where You come in. You
can submit a free pattern to our Arts & Crafts library and get a
link (or links) to your site.
Ideally you would submit a
pattern {or patterns) instructions and a picture of an item that best
represents your particular style. You will end up with several links to
your site in this fashion and the visitors will more easily be able to
find the craft sites they are most interested in.
When you submit complete
instructions pattern and picture you can include a list of other
patterns, kits, services etc. that they will find on your site. In other
words plugging your site is okay, I think this is an excellent way for
us to build our content, for you to really promote your site and for
others to find what they need.
Suggestions and comments are
most welcome. If you are interested in volunteering to review
submissions, test out instructions and patterns we'd appreciate it very
much.
The goal is Everybody
wins!
E-mail Edna at HowTo Universe
HowTo Promote your offline Craft Business.
Read
the above then just substitute your snail mail or other offline contact
information i.e. location and phone number of your small business.
If you don't want a website you
might think about a simple web presence page. This would be like a
one page ad. The page can be maintained by a company that specializes in
this sort of thing for a fee. They design the page and give you a web
address that can be used in your advertising or added to your business
cards etc.
Another (and free) option would be
to link to your HowTo Universe Article or HowTo Instruction page from
any online advertising you do. The page address or URL would be way too
long for print advertising until next year when we go to our own
servers.
For more details e-mail
us.
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