Opportunity Knocks

Your Place to be Scene

Apr 29th, 2009 | By Wink
Your Place to be Scene

MAKE WINKELF YOUR ONE SHOP STOP
Let your shoppers know where to find you on the web by sharing your website, blog, photo sharing and social networking sites right from your storefront.
Add links to you favorite places and social media sites right from the [My Details] section of the member’s area… like your website, blog and [...]



Winkelf Blogs!

Apr 28th, 2009 | By Wink
Winkelf Blogs!

Watch for the debut of our new member’s blogs tomorrow.
Members blogs are now AVAILABLE!!!
These aren’t just your plain old shop blogs either… complete with lots of must have features and built in widgets. Add your store, your twitters, image galleried… a randomized picture.  The basic theme is customizable and more themes will be added soon.
Fully [...]



Does Your Shop Offer Seller Discounts?

Feb 11th, 2009 | By Wink

IT’S HERE…
And I couldn’t be more excited!   Now sellers can create and issue their own individual discount codes which can be validated and redeemed automatically at purchase.

Discount codes and “gift amounts” are a great way to build sales, develop new clientele and bring back repeat buyers. Issue special codes to specific users as a thank [...]



Let the Elves Auto-Relist It

Feb 4th, 2009 | By Wink
Let the Elves Auto-Relist It

List, sell similar, relist and AUTO RELIST!
Now that the auto-relist feature has been in place and working well with no known issues for a few months, we have increased the total number of times a listing can be set to auto-relist.

Now you can set your listings to auto-relist up to 12 times and not worry [...]



Hide & Seek… How Do They Find You?

Jan 26th, 2009 | By Wink
Hide & Seek… How Do They Find You?

How do you find a store on Etsy, Artfire or ShopHandmade?   No really… I don’t have the answer, I want to know.
There’s the product search, but that doesn’t give me a glimps into all the stores that might sell the items I’m looking for… well unless I click into each of the hundreds of product [...]



Google Analytics Stats Now Available

Jan 22nd, 2009 | By Wink
Google Analytics Stats Now Available

While you’ve always been able to add an independent stat counter to your store, now you can use the power of Google to get your store stats too. Get the goods on page views, visitors, traffic sources and referrals to your store pages and listings.  Find out what’s hot and what’s not.
Best of all, many [...]



Twitter those listings!

Jan 11th, 2009 | By Wink
Twitter those listings!

Are you on Twitter?
If you are, you can automatically twitter your new listings to all your followers using Twitterfeed.com.   We Twitter all new listings and it brings in a lot of visits from our followers alone.   Imagine if all sellers twittered too!
Just sign up for a free account and set up your “twitter feeds”.  Twitterfeed [...]



Shopping on Your Blog

Dec 21st, 2008 | By Wink

Woo! Hoo!
Now you can add your store to your blog sidebar with the first ever (that I
know of) full functioning shopping cart widget.

No need to send your buyers elsewhere or to another site where your competitors are waiting to “pounce”. Let your buyers shop your Winkelf store without ever leaving your blog.
Now buyers can [...]



Ebay, Etsy, Dawanda, Artfire, ShopHandmade …Winkelf?

Dec 15th, 2008 | By Wink
Ebay, Etsy, Dawanda, Artfire, ShopHandmade …Winkelf?

I was browsing around some of the “other” marketplaces this weekend and found this interesting.  According to a ShopHandmade comparison…

Cost: 35¢ per month per item plus 12% of sales
eBay’s 12% commission is the highest anywhere, making it an expensive place to sell.
Because this venue sells everything from televisions to handmade items to [...]