marketing

If you have a lot of yarn or fabric that you need to move, often the first impulse is to slash the price to get it out the door. After all, everyone loves a bargain, so lowering the price will make the product more attractive...

Wondering how to get the most out of Shopify in your online store? Pinterest now provides pinners the option to buy or pin your Shopify products straight from their Pinterest accounts, whether they’re using Pinterest on their home computer or mobile device. Here's how to set...

Do unsubscribes to your newsletter make you uneasy? Industry experts estimate that the average newsletter list degrades by 22.8% yearly due to opt-outs and abandoned or changed email addresses. Let's say your newsletter list is 3,000 people - that's over 500 email addresses each year! If a...

[caption id="attachment_533" align="alignnone" width="662"] Wool and the Gang: Getting their message across big and bold.[/caption]   It doesn't matter if you are a local yarn store, yarn manufacturer, or an independent designer: BRANDING IS KEY! With today's social media outlets, it's not even difficult to establish a following...

Tracking the return on investment for social media efforts can be difficult: quite often, you see your number of followers grow much more quickly than sales. But buying likes and follows isn't enough; when it comes to social media, the quality of your followers will increase the...

In our last post we talked about the importance of Instagram for companies in the crafty community. Today we're focusing on best practices to help your Instagram account grow and flourish to become an asset to your brand. (In addition to this article, we’ve also...

Is your company active on Instagram? Today's blog post is all about why every company should have an Instagram presence. Instagram is visual--as a business catering to creative people a visual medium is the perfect way to connect and inspire your target consumer. What knitter doesn't want...