Please! Crafters - if you are selling in a webstore, please set up an affiliate program!

An affiliate program means other people bring visitors - and thus buyers! - to your website. As in I would promote your product/store, my visitors would visit you and when they buy, I would get a percentage of the sale. Not a huge %, not 90 or 80 or even 70. Not even 60! I have no idea what typical commissions are - 10%-40% I would guess - but considering it’s traffic (and sales!) you would not have received before, why don’t you have an affiliate program already!

I emailed a handful of crafters asking if they had affiliate programs and if so, where could I sign up. At least a few wrote back asking what an affiliate program was. After I explained it, they never wrote back. I wonder if they think I am trying to steal sales? Or did I do a bad job explaining what it is?

Internet marketing is sometimes not something crafters think about - but I beg you, please set up an affiliate program for your website. I want to send buyers to you! I have websites where I recommend products (not this one, this one is for fun!) and I want to recommend YOU! I love crafting and thus crafters - I want to see you succeed!

Please don’t look at affiliate marketing as me wanting money for your hard work. Look at it as a way to get more people to see your items and more sales and more money for you. If someone consistantly sent you a couple hundred (or more!) visitors a day, and maybe not all of them buy but some of them do, isn’t paying 25% commission a nice thank you? Doesn’t it make the one doing the sending want to work harder for you?

Yes it does! I am tired of recommending big companies. Help me help you. Okay that’s a lame line from a movie, but please help me help you.

Please feel free to reference this in your posting or tell a friend, etc. I really want more crafters to have affiliate programs and don’t understand why they don’t. Thanks.

Finally I am posting about the great stuff that Elizabeth sent me!

Check out the picture here at Flickr - the picture has notes.

I love it all! I love notebooks and the purple one is right on top of my desk already being used. I too am a list maker - have been since I was a little girl. This is perfect! (I should probably take a picture of all of my notebooks. LOL)

The bead book is so great! It has projects and my mind is spinning with the great things I can make. And, even better, I think I have beads that would look great. We (the kids and I) have been using the flower paper punch -they love to punch, I made a couple of cards. We’ve been using the wig jig writer to make loopy candy canes and my daughter is itching to help make bracelets with the beads.

Thank you so much Elizabeth!

I don’t know why, but it felt like embroidering the pillowcases was taking forever. I wanted to get done by Sunday, but for whatever reason it took another day. Then when I went to take the hoop off this morning, I realized I forgot two flowers!

But it’s done. *whew!* I haven’t shown my daughter yet, but I know she is going to be thrilled!

I laid the two on a chair, which is why the top is a bit smushed.