How to Set up and Use a Custom Domain for Artisans (Guest Post)
[Guest Post] From maker Riverside Refuge Studio, this skill share explains how to set up and utilize a custom domain and website.
Skill Share
7 Handmade Product Photography Tips
Eye-catching product photography is one of the most important things for online sellers. We don’t have the luxury of our customers being able to experience the product before they buy, so our photos need to do the selling.
Keep reading for 7 Handmade Product Photography Tips that will help your handmade products sell!
Payment Processing Fees and Marketplace Fees Pricing Calculator Tool
In this post, we’ll talk about payment processing fees: what they are, who charges them, and why they might change in the future. These fees are not set by Artisans Cooperative, and are in addition to the Artisans Cooperative sales commission. We’ll also provide a simple calculator that helps artisans price their goods to cover the cost of fees.
How to Answer Shoppers’ Questions—Before They Even Ask Them!
In this guide we’d like to help you anticipate shoppers’ questions and present information about your product in ways that busy shoppers can take in. By thinking like a buyer, you can create listings that have all the information buyers need to make a confident purchase. Clear, appropriately detailed listings are not the whole story, but they’ll impress shoppers and also reduce the likelihood of returns.
How We Set Our Sales Commissions
In this post, we’ll talk about how we came up with our sales commissions, and what they are.
Sales commissions are the Coop’s primary source of income. When setting fees, it was important for Artisans Cooperative to weigh the marketing and financial risks of high and low fees, for both the longevity of the cooperative but also fairness and transparency for the artisan.
How to Add a Co-op “Donation Jar” (or Tips!) On Your Shopify Website
Artisans Cooperative set up a “donation jar” for donations to the co-op, and artisans with their own Shopify store can do the same – for the co-op, for another favored cause, or for their own tips!
The Risk of Making Things by Hand
In order to learn more about “the workmanship of risk” from our handmade policy, we spoke to a few artisans from the co-op about their experiences with risk, craftsmanship, and what “handmade” means to them.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Other Marketplaces (Guest Post 5/5)
[Guest Post 5/5] The final post and conclusion to our series tells about our experience trying other marketplaces as an alternative to Etsy to diversify our income.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Dropshipping Sites (Guest Post 4/5)
[Guest Post] To diversify our income from Etsy, we tried selling our handmade products on dropshipping sites in the mid- to late-2010’s. This is what we learned.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Amazon (Guest Post 3/5)
[Guest Post] To diversify our income from Etsy, we decided to post a few of our items on Amazon in 2014. n this post, we’ll share what it was like for us to post our handmade products on Amazon over a period of four years.