Hopefully this is our hard work starting to pay off!! We’ve made our first sales!!
What a fantastic feeling. Our margins are so low that we’re really not making much of a profit, but that was the idea of getting things going as cheaply as we can. We thought all along that we would prefer to try and pass savings on to our customers. There has obviously been a fair bit of work to get our web ‘presence’ up to what it is now, so the idea that people are starting to like what we’ve done is great. Thanks to the folk that have taken the plunge and bought from us!!
Now that we have the basics of our business up and running, we would live some comments about how people think we’re doing. The website is very basic. www.thecraftybeggars.com was set up to try and showcase what we had to offer. We thought about selling direct from the site but worried about how to drive traffic there. That is why we went for EBay. However, we are very aware that not all people like EBay. With this in mind, we tried to make access to our email address as easy as possible. We hoped that anybody 
that didn’t want to use EBay would contact us direct. To date, no-one has done this.
Now this might be completely normal and most websites may get very little direct communication, but I’d kind of hoped we would! If it’s something you’ve considered, I would really appreciate a comment left here, or an email sent direct telling us if there is a reason you have felt unable to contact us in this way. We’re not scary, we just want to communicate!!
If anyone has any pictures of completed Small Beauties Decoupage they would be happy to share with us, we would love to put them on our site. We’ve been thinking of a ’showcase’ page where you can show off your skills. We would also be interested in ’suggestions’ and ideas regarding the use of decoupage in general. This might form the basis of a completely new Gallery page giving inspiration to those that can’t quite get their idea clear in their heads. You never know, it could be the start of a brand new ‘Crafty Beggars Corner’!
Tags: Crafts, Die Cut Decoupage, Ebay, Sales
