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How to Use a Business Blog to Promote your Craft Business
Having your own craft business blog can be an important part of running your craft business. Keeping a craft blog is a good way to network with other crafters, communicate with customers and to provide visitors with an insight into your world.
Blogging can be a powerful promotional tool for the craft craft business owner and setting up a craft blog is surprisingly easy to do. With free blogging applications, free blog templates and a wide variety of other widgets and gizmos, you can have a great looking craft business blog up and running quickly.
In this section we focus on the tools available to help both experienced and novice bloggers to gain maximum benefit from an arts and craft business blog.
One simple trick is to remember that your focus shouldn't just be on you own blog. Building a community is important, therefore visiting other related blogs and leaving relevant comments can help drive traffic back to your own craft business blog and is useful for networking.
Don't forget to check out our Build a Website pages if you are looking for more information about running your own site. If you know of an interesting blog related page that we've missed, please let us know.
Don't forget to check out our Marketing category for more information about promoting your craft business.
Tutorial - How to embed a PDF into your blog +tab
Useful if you want to offer downloads or printables from your blog
3 tips for better tutorial writing on your craft blog +tab
Tips for writing good tutorials on your blog
3 essential craft blog extras +tab
Three things to add to your blog to help better blogging
How to Add Social Bookmarks to Blogger +tab
You've seen the social bookmaking buttons on blogs - this explains how to get one on yours!
Artist Blogging Advice +tab
Information on using a blog platform to promote a handmade craft or art business
Naughty Secretary Club: The Business of Creative Blogging +tab
Tips for keeping a good and interesting blog
How to Start a Business Blog - Free Ebook from Remarkablogger +tab
Free 12-step guide for any business on how to start a business blog, from conception to execution to blogging policies. Benefits and pitfalls covered.
Artist Blogging 101 from Remarkablogger +tab
'Process, Not Product' - How to live your art via your art without selling your soul - very interesting for craft bloggers.
How To Put A Button In Your Sidebar from Bella Dia +tab
How to add buttons and badges to your blog
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress +tab
Otherwise known as YARPP - keeps people on your blog by giving them related posts at the bottom of each page.
The Cutest Blog on the Block - Free Blog Backgrounds, layouts and more! +tab
All Free blog backgrounds and layouts.
LinkWithin - Related Posts with Thumbnails +tab
Posts related posts at the bottom of each blog
FriendOrFollow.com +tab
Tool for Twitter. Who's not following you back? Who aren't you following?
