Marketing Crafts Online 2 Easy Ways

There are several ways that you can market your crafts online. So it may be hard to decide which one will be the right one for marketing crafts online.  But here are 3 easy ways for marketing your crafts and it will cost you just a little time or just a few cents a day.

By now you should have heard about Twitter unless you have been living under a rock. Twitter.com is a site that allows people to post what they are up to any time they have inkling. Many handmade artists have started to use Twitter.com as a way for marketing crafts online. Twitter is 100% free, but it does take up a bit of time. You see the key to getting the word out about your craft is to get followers. And even then you have to target the right followers. Many handmade artists find that it takes a considerable amount of time getting enough followers to make a difference in the amount of traffic they get to their online shop. Yet there have been some handmade artists to get over 2,000 plus followers and as a result have seen a rise in the amount of traffic to their sites.

HandmadeCraftShow.com is an online virtual craft show that showcases the crafts of handmade artists using virtual craft show booths. Handmade artists are able to display up to 5 pictures of their crafts. Each virtual craft show booth also allows for a shop name, url, description, specialty items, price range, and twitter link. Each booth links directly to the handmade artist online shop. Shoppers love this because it allows them to buy handmade crafts directly from the artists. Handmade artists can keep their prices down and pass the savings on to their buyers.

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Student Marketing Company Introduces Education Alerts at Tx Career School Conference

Andover, MA -- October 8, 2008 -- Boston-area student marketing company, Effective Student Marketing (ESM), introduces the Education Alerts student recruitment marketing system at The Career Colleges & Schools of Texas Annual Conference. The conference runs today through October 10, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Resort in the Hill Country of San Antonio, Texas.

Education Alerts is ESM's proven, cost-effective e-marketing communications system developed exclusively for the private, post-secondary career school education sector. Education Alert's dynamic content engine produces an ongoing, relevant dialogue with a school's 'old' leads to re-engage, excite and motivate them to renew their interest in the school's program offerings.

"We realize that the leads in our school's prospect database are valuable, but we don't have the resources to develop and manage an ongoing dialogue with them.. Education Alerts gives us a chance to cost-effectively communicate with these leads on a regular basis to reactivate their interest. Education Alerts has helped us to reduce our cost per start, maximize enrollments and improve the school's profitability." says a Texas-based paralegal school owner.

"Many career school owners, presidents and marketing directors are familiar with print marketing or career fairs, but don't know where to start with e-mail or internet marketing. Education Alerts helps to fill the gap in technology to connect with prospective students on a frequent basis." says ESM's founder and president, Andy Kelley.

The Career Colleges & Schools of Texas
The Career Colleges & Schools of Texas (CCST) is the state association for private, post secondary institutions that prepare people for today's jobs and careers. There are approximately 200 colleges and schools in the state offering a wide range of occupational curriculum. These colleges and schools enable more students to reach their career goals, provide employers with a large pool of skilled workers, and ultimately expand the state's tax base by attracting and expanding business in Texas.

CCST Theme: Charting a New Course
The theme of the 2008 CCST Conference is 'Charting a New Course'. Attendees are invited to explore the challenges facing schools in the next few years including effective financing solutions to keep a school at peak performance, how to encourage curriculum-based service learning and community outreach, and filling the skilled-worker shortage, specifically in Texas. CCST participants will also follow trends in career education and how to reach the career-college student once they have enrolled, including how to use the latest technologies that will help to increase student interaction and retention.

ESM represents one of the vendor exhibitors providing specialized student marketing services. ESM's new marketing tool, Education, Alerts exemplifies the CCST theme of establishing a direction for schools and students to come together. ESM will be at booth #102 at the conference.

The CCST Annual Conference draws attendees of over 300 career colleges and schools sector leaders, key decision makers, faculty and administrative personnel and speakers.

About Effective Student Marketing, Inc.
Effective Student Marketing, Inc. is a strategic marketing organization specializing in student lead generation programs, student marketing and student recruitment, designed exclusively for career, technical and vocational schools.

The management team has many years of combined senior level experience working exclusively in education marketing on the school side. Although ESM utilizes internet marketing tools and techniques, including cost per lead vendor management, search engine advertising, search engine optimization and e-newsletter production and distribution, ESM's staff of education marketing specialists has the experience, skills and knowledge to provide client schools with a full range of marketing services.

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