Blog Handmade and Win!

We are coming to a close on the Christmas Season! There is only one Saturday left.  It's crunch time.  Everyone wants to bring in that last great sale!  Organic traffic is the best way to make it.  So, with that in mind, we are doing a no obligation event echoed from ArtFire's Promotional:

  

Tell the World About Your Favorite Handmade Gifts and You Could Win a Nikon Camera, a Kindle, or a Table Top Photography Studio!

We are hosting a blogging event at It's Better Handmade! Social Network! You're invited to join with us, seller, buyer or bystandard...and blog too! You don't have to be a seller to be a member of It's Better Handmade! It's really very simple, but there are a few things we strongly encourage!  

• blog at least 2 paragraphs
• link-it-up why hyperlinks
• you must have a Facebook or Twitter account.

Interested in winning? Read more..

We decided to do the blogging on Saturday at It's Better Handmade Social Network so that we build more content for Google to grab.  This gives Google a reason to index the site better, it brings up SEO and in turn, brings in more traffic.  More traffic is very good.  

This is a coordinated effort to partner up with Handmade Saturday, our sister site.  It's our turn this week! 

The event description is in Events page

The instructions are in forums...don't worry, just follow the prompts.

The blogging page is called our "Magazine".  We  have already had some early birds come and post blogs.  You can too, it you can't be there Saturday.  

We Have a Sibling Site!

We have a new sibling site!  

This site was birthed in ArtFire and Etsy forums!  Miss00 suggested making our own event like Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the idea stuck like crazy.  Everyone encouraged her to press forward with this event..then her doggie died.  She called for someone to pick it up...well, I and Ruthie from Rose Works Jewelry teamed up to work on this and an entire website and huge event has been born!

Along with this event and site 

comes the business page!

http://artist.to/handmadesaturday

This will be a really huge event! 

 

It's our 1st annual Handmade Saturday Holiday Sale!

We already have hundreds of shops coming together to offer some great handmade sales!  There are members right now!  posting their shop widgets in our categories at the site.  The shopping mall is filling up fast!  This is published on over 50 sites and will be setting up adwords for this event!! 

Please check it out!

Read more about how to participate!  

We have our Quick Reference Shop Directory and the Shopping Mall!  The traffic to the site is outstanding!  This new social network site is going to be integrated with our It's Better Handmade!  Social Network!  I have opened up our social network to be joined now by anyone without a pass code!  Less hassle!  

You can also join the new Handmade Saturday for 

It's Better Handmade! Social Network site now has a domain!  WWW.ITSBETTERHANDMADE.COM

You will find that I have released all restrictions now on all our sites!

**Note: we have to downgrade at the end of December at It's Better Handmade Social Network due to the lack of interest.  So we will loose some games and IM stuff.

You will find our hub helpful!  We have developed a network structure for all the sites we are linked with.  Here is a graph to help you understand:

We also have a great Shop Directory website that intertwined all over the net!

Hope to see you there...makes sure to check out 

It's Better Handmade Group News

Hello, Everyone!  

What an interesting week! ;)  

Thanks for following me here!

OK, here's the skinny!  We have decided to stay at Facebook for the time being as a group as long as we can.  Your hard work has built this great network and it is worth fighting for!  I won't let bullies take it from us and I won't back down.

I am now using this official It's Better Handmade Blogspot as our public network hub!  You can find our Newsletters, information on Events, our new link hub and other helpful information here. I have also created some great pages including a Collections page. There is a new Contact Susan Now (my personal creation, no 3rd parties)at the left of the page if you need to email me for any questions you might have.  I will be keeping a private roster of those who have checked in via email with their support and questions for future reference when we begin working on our new website.  I am looking to the possibility of creating our own Social network hub sometime after the holidays.  

Every week, I will be sending a simple message to you in your private box via our Facebook Group to let you know there is a newsletter waiting for you here.  You can also access partner links such as ZeroZoomPizazz, It's Better Handmade HQ on ArtFire and several others.  We can create a Member Roster Link page if you are game.  

The new HQ at ArtFire has some great benefits.  We have live Chat, Forums, Picture Gallery for any members to add to and an events calender.  I have already started some great forums over there that I think you will love.  

I know some of you don't have ArtFire accounts, that's OK.  There is no requirement to sign up and participate there.    Those of us who are there find ArtFire to be somewhat of a safe haven.

Take a look at my most recent post here called Blog Blitz!  It's a carry over from a forum at HQ and a cooperative effort the Mavens(I am one) have been doing since Summer.  I think you will have fun with it.

One more thing, we have some changes in our officers.  Please make Sparks feel welcome as she steps up to officer and possibly taking Admin responsibilities in the future.  

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You will find that life sometimes takes you away from the things you want to do.  But I know that we are being refined like a precious metal.  Thanks for all your hard work and support.  You are ALL WORTH IT.