Monthly online event for crafters

The monthly online event for crafters in August/September is Knitting Hill Carnival

Sunday 30th August – Sunday 27th September

We host a monthly online event for crafters to showcase, exhibit and sell, to try and assist during these strange times, when actual craft events are a tad sparse. ⁠ This monthy Ian W Wallace Ltd proudly presents Knitting Hill Carnival

Knitting Hill Carnival will last a whole month.⁠ Starting on Sunday 30th August⁠

Here’s what you need to do to take part⁠:⁠

  • Follow @ian_presents #ian_presents and @ianwwallaceltd to keep up to date with all the news on our monthly online event for crafters.
  • ⁠To exhibit your crafts, make sure you tag @ian_presents and use the hashtag #ian_presents and #knittinghillcarnival⁠
  • ⁠Please share this post with everyone. Together, we can make this the biggest and best event yet!!⁠
  • Please encourage your family and friends to support us by getting them to follow @ian_presents and #ian_presents and #knittinghillcarnival⁠
  • Emphasise that we need them ALL to follow, like, comment, tag, and of course, to buy from the crafters shops if they can.⁠

If you would like to take part in Knitting Hill Carnival or any of our monthly online event for crafters, and haven’t yet got any public and products liability insurance in place to sell your handmade crafts, this can be done nice and quickly by clicking the Get A Quote button below.

Products Liability covers you, if a claim is made against you for injury or damage caused by the normal use of the product. Insurance is not just going for events you know. ?⁠

We already have a myriad of crafters joining us this month, any we will be sharing links to their Instagram pages and their online shops, but we have plenty of room for more if you want to get involved.

Our previous events have been an absolute blast, with good online interaction from ‘stallholders’ and ‘buyers’ alike which made for a really good buzz, and a lovely welcoming atmosphere.

We are so proud to be able to offer something like this for our customers, and the best bit is that we really feel we are getting to know you, putting faces to names, and getting an even better idea of how the craft industry ticks. You never stop learning right? We are becoming a lovely big craft family community 🙂

So, we will hopefully see you there,

All the best,

Naomi Wallace (Great at customer service, awful at making coffee!!!)

Marketing your craft business

There’s no denying it, lockdown has made us all reevaluate how we can continue to do business, in the absence of physically going out and about in the public arena.

Many, if not most, have turned to online sales to fill the void. So now you’ve set yourself up with a website, or have started selling through your facebook page, what next? How do you get people do find out about you and your craft business? How are you marketing your craft business?

As many of you will read read from previous posts, we have started hosting online market through social media, to try and give you crafters a shout out, and showcase what you do. Now after two online events, we are finally starting to learn how to get the word out, so people can go looking for you online.

Now, this by no means we are experts – quite the opposite in fact. However, the amazing crafting community are always quick to help and offer help, and are constantly educating me on the use of hashtags and ‘tagging’ people in posts.

So, what I would really like to know is, how do you market yourself and your craft business? Where do you advertise? Which hashtags work best for you?

Get in touch with us on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter under the hashtag #ianwwallace ltd and give us some top tips on how you are marketing your craft business.

If you also wanted to share pictures of your work on Instagram using #ian_presents then they will be visible along with our online stallholders for our virtual markets.

All the best,

Naomi

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