I hand dye yarn and I've been doing wholesale to local yarn shops for about a year now. Hardly enough to pay for my hobby. Well, I've decided to take the plunge and start my own website where I can ship directly to customers. It's a terrifying prospect, to be honest. I think I'm just looking for reassurance. I'm investing a lot of time and money into this and it would really suck if I can't even make this pay for website hosting fees. The taxes alone have put me off doing this before now.
I'm planning on launching the website during my trunk show next weekend to promote it and get the word out.
Any advice or tips welcome. I'm getting the jitters already ðŸ˜
Building my website and I'm nervous.
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Posted by ParticularlyOrdinary
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What platform or Tech Stack you are using to develop the Website?
Something I have gotten a lot of traction on lately with DIY projects is actually Pinterest. If you create some boards that are surrounded by your yarn for example handmade afghans, pot holders or whatever the case may be and then make sure to make really pretty Graphics you could use canva to do it easily. And then pin those back to your website, and I have gotten a lot of traction, in fact, so much. I was actually pretty surprised because I thought that no one was using Pinterest anymore. Good luck!!!!
Hopefully you’re not paying an agency big dollars to build. Try and pick a free template from Shopify. Try promoting on instagram or perhaps ads on Facebook to generate traffic. You’re better off doing it than regretting never tried doing it.