BoundlessGallery. Poppytalkhandmade. Lov.li. Swap Meet 2.0: Selling Handmade Goods Online. For a long time, artisans wishing to sell their hand crafted goods generally had to do so locally through gift shops, swap meets, and craft fairs.
Then in the mid-90s along came eBay, and for many years it was the best option for artisans to get their goods out to the world. But in the past couple of years, new online marketplace startups targeted specifically at the needs of independent artists and crafts people have emerged. Below we'll take a brief look at three such startups as well as eBay. For between $15.95 and $499.95 per month, eBay offers sellers a complete store front option (this is in addition to normal per transaction fees). Depending on the level of service purchased, sellers can customize their store front and have access to a handful of promotional, branding and management tools. On the buyers' end of the spectrum, eBay can be pretty daunting. TigerStars is a typical eBay store front. The buyer side is where Etsy really shines.
Eirene is a typical Etsy store front. Swap Meet 2.0 Part Deux: More Places to Buy & Sell Handmade Good. In June, we published a post entitled Swap Meet 2.0 that took a look at a handful of sites at which people buy and sell handmade goods on the Internet.
Specifically, we looked at eBay, Etsy, DaWanda, and Lov.li. This is a small, but growing niche and today we'll take a look at three more startups that provide ecommerce and community services to independent artists and crafts people. If you know of any other such services, please feel free to share them in the comments below. Brooklyn-based Supermarket takes a no nonsense approach to selling handcrafted goods online. Their site is dead simple, with very large, easy-to-use navigational elements, and organizes products under just three main categories: wear + carry, space + place, and paper + print (each category is defined further with a handful of subcategories).
On the buyers end, Supermarket is fairly easy to browse -- and considering they work with far fewer designers than other sites, there is much less to look at. Gr? 6 Ways to Sell Your Stuff Online. Turn your skills or your stuff into extra cash. NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jessica Marquez was facing the exorbitant expense of living in New York City with nothing but a newly minted Masters of Arts degree and $70,000 in student loan debt.
Skill with a needle and embroidery thread has helped Jessica Marquez with her finances. The recent transplant to the Big Apple has the enthusiasm of someone with her whole life ahead of her, but as bills rolled in, so did reality: Her day job as an image archivist at a Chelsea art gallery just wasn't cutting it. So to earn extra income, Marquez, 27, started selling her embroidered artwork online at Etsy.com. "It's become an obsession," she laughs. "My boyfriend says he's widowed to Etsy. " Etsy.com is an online marketplace for homemade goods. On the site you can find handmade candles, needlepoint, pottery and purses.