We talk a lot about the power of knowing your audience and segmenting your messaging. You can read our recent blog post, Personalizing Your Marketing Message, to get an overview. Today, we want to share a case study of how tailoring every interaction with your...
News flash: your yarn/paper/fabric/craft shop is not unique. Sure, there are some aspects that are a little different from your competitors, but there are a thousand shades of that perfect red, countless varieties of paper punches, and more options for amazing organizing bags than we...
I first started writing knitting patterns in 2010 when I was living in China and teaching English. I wrote patterns because I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for on Ravelry, and I had lots of ideas of the exact thing I wanted to...
Two weeks ago, we hosted #stitchlove, a community art project, at the TNNA Summer trade show in Columbus, OH. After a year of planning and plotting, it was so amazing to see everything come together! The swatches were mostly from my own design swatch drawer,...
Last week we announced stitchlove, a new project for the June 2017 TNNA trade show. We hope you’ll join us, here’s a post by Mari on why this project is important to her. In 2016, I went to both the January and June TNNA shows...
The Instagram Power-Up is a 1-month boost to increase activity, traffic, and impact of an Instagram channel for our clients. We’ve seen a lot of activity and engagement shift from other social media channels over to Instagram. The importance of Instagram is twofold: the primary...
In our previous blog post, we discussed Craftivism’s resurgence during the Women’s March at the end of January. Crafting has become the face of this movement; just look at the front page of the New York Times and the covers of Time and the New...
If you take any online business class or read an article about growing your brand’s Instagram following, they’ll all say that one of the best ways to gain new followers is by engaging with them. This means liking, commenting, and following people who use related...
At the end of January, many LYSOs and yarn companies saw a surge in sales of pink yarn as knitters and crocheters stitched up hats for the Women’s March. The demand was so high there were reports of big box stores selling out of pink...