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“How To Get Your Knitting And Crochet Online!” Teleseminar
Monday, September 21st, 2009
The next Free "Knitting For Profit" Teleseminar will be on Thursday 24th or Friday 25th September depending on where you live. This time we’ll be covering questions about getting your knitting or crochet business online including:
• How to set up your website or blog
• The different ways you can make money or take payments for your products or services
• How to advertise your website
• How to get free traffic!
• How social media like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can get you more traffic
Remember! You must REGISTER to get access to the call and to the recording later! So CLICK HERE to register for the call and enter the questions you would like to have answered. I’ll look forward to having you on the call!
Learn How To Make Money From Home
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
After my last post, I had a lot of emails asking for more information about what steps you need to take to get a website or blog making good money online.
There is so much information available about internet marketing and making money online that it can get a bit confusing and very hard to know where to start.
But it is certainly a skill worth learning - I absolutely love working from home and making a living by providing people with great information. There is a huge amount of money spent online every day, and with the right knowledge and a willingness to have a go, you can start bringing some of it into your life and your bank account too!
Through my experiences in starting up blogs and websites and writing my books, I have realised that there is just one simple key to succeeding in making money online – and that is to take things one a step at a time.
If you bombard yourself with all the information available all at once, it just gets overwhelming and a bit stressful (I know because I did that too…). I learned a lot from an amazing Australian couple who run workshops here teaching the basics of internet marketing, if you are from Australia drop me an email and I can get you into one of their workshops as my guest (the tickets are usually around $2,000) – but this won’t help if you are living anywhere else in the world!
So I thought I would also let you know about another amazing couple I recently found who teach internet marketing one step at a time. Judith and Jim are psychologists and a husband and wife team who wanted to get their business online, but had no idea how. When they started out, they found all the high-tech information from the internet "gurus" very confusing and frustrating, so they created a very simple, step-by-step system for learning the basics of online business and internet marketing.
This is the kind of thing that everyone wishes they had known about when they first started – it is a program that will take you from complete beginner to making your very first dollar online. It’s even good if you have a bit of knowledge but are not sure the best way to move forward.
So if you would really like to learn step-by-step how to start making money online, both with your knitting site and other websites, then this is definitely worth checking out – it’s not cheap, but it’s worth the investment if you are serious about making some money from home.
Go to http://budurl.com/FirstStepOnline
Let me know if you have any other questions about setting up and marketing your knitting or crochet website – I’m happy to help!
How To Turn Your Knitting Website Into A Shopping Site
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Many people ask me how they can start selling their knitting from their own blog or from knitting websites, so in this post I'll show you how easy it is to add a Paypal function to your knitting or crochet site to instantly start accepting payments for your goods or services – yay!
Many knitters and crocheters don't realise how easy it is to start making some money from their creations online. If you already have a website or blog, and you would like to start selling your products or services, then using Paypal's payment buttons is the fastest, easiest and possibly cheapest way to get started.
And you may not realise Paypal buttons can also give you the ability to collect donations for charity fund-raising (like sponsored knit-alongs) or even let people give gift certificates for your sites products!
First of all you need a Paypal account, which is easy and free to set up. Then when you log in, you'll see this screen, choose the “Merchant Services” tab (circled).
To create your payment buttons, choose “Website Payments Standard” (circled on the left).
Now you have a few choices:
The “Buy Now” buttons will take people straight to the payment page and will not allow them to add anything else to their order. This button is for “once-only” product sales, and probably won't be as suitable for you as the free shopping cart option below.
The “Add To Cart” button allows people to buy many different products and as many of each product as they want. This encourages them to buy more than one thing at a time, which is always a good thing!
You can also set up a “Donate” button which allows you to collect donations over the web – this makes it much easier for people to support your fundraiser, and allows you to reach a world-wide audience with your cause.
Or you can include a “Buy Gift Voucher” button, which I think every knitting or crochet website should have – why not encourage people to give your products or designs as thoughtful gifts to friends and family who also love knitting and crochet?
For this exercise, we'll look at setting up the Add To Cart button, which will probably be the first one you use. So click on “Create One Now” as shown circled above.
Step 1 on the next page allows you to customise your button to your needs. You need to create a separate “Add To Cart” button for each item you want to sell with the different price, payment currency and size/colour options for each. In the example below I have created my button for a US$35 beanie that comes in red, blue or black. You can add more than one of these drop-down menus if you also have size choices.
If you want to, you can use your own customised button images by putting in their URL in the “customise appearance” option.
Next add in the postage cost for that item (assuming it was bought as a single item) and choose the Merchant ID for transactions – the secure option uses your registered paypal email address as the ID, or you can choose another email address if you wish.
In Step 2 you can set up inventory tracking and profit and loss tracking which can be very handy. You will be alerted by email if the numbers of a certain product are low, and you can stop people ordering an item if it is out of stock.
In Step 3 you can customise your check-out pages. You can allow customers to add in special instructions, and choose whether or not you want their postal address (for example, if you are selling knitting patterns as pdf's you may not need their postal address to provide the products).
Then you can choose where the customer will go once they have finished paying (circled here). If you are selling knitting patterns, you can upload the pattern or pdf to a specific page on your website and send them there once they have paid (so only people who have made a payment can view that page). If you are selling products you might like to set up a special “thank you” page which thanks them for their order and gives them information like approximate delivery times.
Finally click on “Create Button” at the bottom of the page and you will get some <html> code and a preview of the button (see below).
Now all you need to do is click on “Select Code” and “copy” (using Control C on your keyboard) then go to your web page and paste the code in where you want your button to appear.
I have included an example of what the code looks like on your web page below – I have pasted the script from Paypal (circled) into a table, and then the preview of what it looks like on the website is below that.
Now you know how to start taking payments for your products, gift certificates and donations – if this brings up any more questions, please post them below and I'm happy to help!
33 Places To Find Great Knitting Patterns
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
There are so many places you can find knitting patterns, it can be a bit overwhelming!
The best way to sift through this massive collection is to get specific. When you know what niche market you are going to supply, you'll know what sort of patterns are you looking for and it will make your search much easier and faster.
Here's a few places to look offline:
►yarn stores
►bookstores (especially second-hand bookshops)
►craft shops
►garage or yard sales
►swap meets
►craft markets or fairs fiber festivals
►ebay and other online auction and trading sites
► stuffed away at the back of your (or your mother's) cupboard!
And here's some useful links to online resources:
► yarn store sites: www.jimmybeanswool.com, www.yarnmarket.com, www.y2knit.net, www.bellaknitting.com, www.yarnsupply.com, www.theyarnco.com,
►dedicated knitting or crochet pattern sites: www.knittingpatterncentral.com, www.crochetpatterncentral.com, www.knittingonthenet.com, www.patternfish.com, www.freepatterns.com, www.freevintagecrochet.com, www.theknittingvault.com
►yarn manufacturers sites: http://freeknittingpatterns.lionbrand.com, www.berroco.com, www.knitrowan.com, www.patonsyarns.com, http://redheart.com
►specialised designers sites: www.vogueknitting.com, www.bymelissa.net
►knitting supply sites: www.knitpicks.com
►knitting and crochet information and magazine sites: www.dailyknitter.com, www.knittinghelp.com/patterns, www.knitty.com, www.smartcrochet.com,
Or you can type your specific pattern search into Google or Yahoo and see what comes up! For example just type into the Google search bar "cable knitting patterns" and it won't take long before youl find exactly what you are looking for.
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