Opportunity Knocks
Apr 29th, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: ByHand.Me, Craftster, DeviantArt, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Hub, IndiePublic, Kaboodle, Marketplace, MySpace, Networks, PlumDrop, Social, StyleHive, Twitter
Apr 28th, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: Announcement, Blogs, Coming Soon
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 [...]
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Tags: Codes, Coupons, Discounts, Promotions, Redeem, Selling, Specials, Store, Tools
Feb 4th, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: auto-relist, list, relist, Selling
Jan 26th, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: Directory, Handmade, Meta Tags, Online, Search, Search Engines, Store
Jan 22nd, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: Analytics, Counter, Google, Page Views, Referrals, Statistics, Store, Traffic
Jan 11th, 2009 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: Store, Tools, Twitter, TwitterFeed
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 [...]
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Tags: Blog, Handmade, Sidebar, Store, Widget
Dec 15th, 2008 |
By Wink
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 [...]
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Tags: Artfire, Comparaison, DaWanda, eBay, Etsy, Fees, Handmade, Marketplace, Selling, ShopHandmade, Venue, WinkElf