New Additions to Listings on Crane's Nest Creations Etsy and ECRATER Stores

Welcome, I loaded a bunch of vegan, all natural body products and natural soy candles into my ETSY and ECRATER Stores. I offer free shipping and free samples with every order so stop by and take a look. Actually it's really easy now that I have these widgets!? You are able to click on a picture in the widget and it will take you right to my store so go and have a look around. For those of you who have been looking for a relatively inexpensive way to sell your stuff on line Ecrater is totally free to open and set up a store, with no commission charges and ETSY a home for all handmade things charges only .20 cents per listing and a 3% commission on sales. I'm adding hang tags to my sites and some small craft supplies so if your looking for rusty junk or vintage textile spools you can look there. There's nothing worse than buying a pattern to make something and now you have to track down supplies to make it. So watch my site for some of your small crafting needs. With no shipping charges to pay, it's pretty cheep.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Please, won't you take the time to sign my guest book? I'd love to see you there.

Something to Crow about

Well after a full weeks work to get Martha done and on the shelf I can finally go onto other things. Yes of course prims. Well I stopped to smell the roses even though it's raining like crazy here, but hey, no complaints. The house is dry and warm and there's food on the table. What more could a soul ask for? LOL I have added some fun things for you to look at and play with and even ponder on my blog today. So take some time to take a look and please sign my guestbook, your comments are welcome . . .
till next time,
thanks for looking

Day After the Fool's Day

Wow, there's allot going on in the Internet sales world these days. Sellers will boycott ebay on the first of May and I am so glad I only use that site to promote my handmade stuff that I sell on etsy and ecrater. It gives me a jump start as people out there get to see the items but being an auction, which I have to say I do not like I price them with a margin so they don't sell, but I get many lookers. I'm still working on driving traffic and now ecrater has given us a new tool to do that so it's pretty cool huh? It's the widget at the top of this blog so now you can see some of the products I offer at ecrater and etsy before you visit my store.
On the personal front I'm not going to list many new products or epatterns this week as I've been busy building a french bed doll by the name of Martha. She's a special order doll and I will put her picture on etsy as "Reserved for Martha" just so you will get to meet her before she joins her new owner. I do have a few things in the works but they won't be released until late next week so stop by, I'll put on the coffee and we can visit at my shops next week
till then, have a great week end. . .

Free Shipping Community

So there's a new community for you to join and it's all about driving traffic to two other web stores, ecrater and etsy to promote business outside of the E Giant. Ecrater actually is offering a Ecrater Mall so you can set your store up and list it in the mall. Ecrater is totally free, no listing or sales commissions involved where Etsy, you pay .20 to list a a minimal selling fee but your items stay in the listings for 6 full months.

The E Giant is really getting costly to run and they are being unfair to the digital markets when I comes to selling digital transfer items such as patterns and hang tags, pictures etc. So go post and list on the free shipping link and drive traffic to your site as it's also free

Bliss to you

Penny

P.S. I created a new pattern, here's a peak

FREE SHIPPING AT CRANENEST.ETSY.COM

OK, There's this big buzz going on and people are really angry with the way one of every one's favorite buying and selling places is sticking it to the sellers. I'm an avid SBayer and use the site to buy and sell but they are totally out of line with the new policies on E Patterns, pricing to Power sellers, store owners and there is some talk about a huge boycott of the site. It used to be that everyone selling there had even billing when it comes to the first listed, first shown policies but things seem to be going haywire over there in the past month where they are setting things up by best match and using feedback percentages to rank how your items come up on the roster. Now when you search a product line the best sellers with the highest rankings come up first and they actually rank by sales instead of the time that an item is listed, so in order to see all items in that category you have to use the drop down list to pick how you want to see the items, as in "time ending", "newly listed" but people who don't use this site as much as others may be a little lost and uncaring about the changes causing people with less volume of sales or lower feed back percentages to be pushed to the wayside even though they are paying premium dollars to list the items they want to sell.
So, In an effort to drive traffic to other sources besides to the big guy, I am offering FREE SHIPPING on my other sights to drive traffic to those communities where I can sell my goods and pay less to do that.
Please join me at
cranesnest.etsy.com
cranesnest.ecrater.com
Springbrooksoapco.ecrater.com
Thank you for your support and for visiting my blog
Happy buying instead of bidding and free shipping too