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The Internet is a great place to look if you are looking for ways to make extra money and be true to your Christian faith. It is easy to start a business from home and run it if you have enough Christian business ideas to choose from. In this article we are going to give you four quick, no cost, ideas to help you get your creative juices flowing.
1. You can create products of your own and sell them online. For example you could write informational reports and sell them on your own website. You could also write ebooks that specifically target problems that people have in their everyday lives. You could include your own ideas from a Christianity point of view in these ebooks.
2. If you are a creative person that likes craft you could create and sell Christian crafts online. You could do this out of your home and do it on either a website or a blog.
You can run this business out of your home by manufacturing or creating the crafts and then shipping out the orders as they come in. If you are unsure how to go about marketing your business you try and find a partner to do the marketing on the internet and split the profits with them.
3. Blogging is big business online and something you could do to make money. There are potential business partners you could work with by Google searching the words Christian blogs. An easy way to make money blogging is to join the Google Adsense affiliate program and include these on your blog.
A fast way to do that is to start a blog for free with Blogger.com. Google owns blogger therefore getting approved for their affiliate program is much easier. You can also find products to sell on your blog as an affiliate at websites such as AssociatePrograms.com and CJ.com
4. You could start and publish your own Christian ezine. An ezine is an electronic way to send email in a newsletter format. You can hire writers to write content if you do not enjoy writing. As your subscriber base increases you could sell advertising in your ezine and use it as an income stream.
These are four simple Christian business ideas that we can think of right here. There is an unlimited number of ways to make money on the Internet and still hold onto your Christian business values. Find one you like and start today making money in a Godly way.
Leon Bowes is co-owner and webmaster of Christian Businesses from Home. As Christians, he and his wife Deana only recommend honest and legitimate Christian Work At Home Opportunities that are available to anyone regardless of their background or skills.
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Take the Leap.
I think the most important advice is, you’ll never know if you don’t try! Have you got passion? Do you enjoy what you make? Have people complimented you on your items? All very good reasons to just give it a go.
The number one reason most craft businesses never make it, is because their owner is too scared to take the plunge, too scared of failure. Don’t be! If failing is the worse thing to ever happen to you in your life then you’re pretty darn lucky
Do some ground work
You have to be passionate about your business. Try to get out of the head space of just items on a table at a market. Try to get into the head space of a larger corporation. Start looking at all those larger companies out there that millions buy from each year. What is there image, what colours do they use, what is there brand name? Start a folder with a bunch of clippings that you can go back to over and over.
Also start a savings fund, although start up costs can be relatively small, there will be a point where some extra money may be critical in advancing your business
Start thinking about your own name
Brainstorm for some catchy names, ask family and friends for input. Make sure the name is short, catchy and easy to remember. Also make sure that when you google it, a hundred other names don’t come up, because you’ll end up having to try and compete with all those other names already out there!
Start thinking about your own image
Who are you planning on selling too? Start thinking about the colours you would like to use, or the look of your logo. Look at your competitors sites, what have they done that you could imitate from? If you’re confident in design, create your own, or if not, do a search for a graphic designer to help you out. There are some inexpensive graphic designers out there who can offer you a design logo package for under a 100 dollars. If that seems expensive just remember that the logo design will be yours for life
Build up stock
Make sure you actually have enough things for people to buy from. Nothing worse than having only a few items!
Photograph your items!
It doesn’t matter if you only have a cheapest digital camera, as long as you’ve learnt to use macro and utilise natural sunlight, you can really create some fabulous results. Start looking around at your favourite craft sites, why are they your favourite? Often a big reason is how well, presented their products are. Start paying attention to the background. Have they used a white background or maybe something more fancy?
If you do a google search on light boxes, there are some easy cheap tutorial out there for the hand-made variety. This will heap to achieve a natural light upon your products!
Start writing product descriptions
When you start to write the description, it’s useful to picture your target audience in your head. Perhaps you knit shawls and your target audience is in the older generation bracket. Imagine who your average customer would be and as your writing the description imagine you’re talking directly to her about why she should buy it. Don’t just list colour, size and materials (although these are very important) but list why it’s good, and what would be in it for the customer if they bought it. Again check out how other successful sites do it.
Make sure you do all the boring things!
It’s the least favourite part but you have to make sure you’re registered as a business and you have programs in place to keep in track of expenses and orders (for tax purposes) Staying ahead of it at the start will save major headaches come tax time!
Set up your shop
Maybe you have a large budget and can afford to have your own website, great! But if you’re not in that category why not try a site like etsy.com. It allows you to create your own little shop space. It’s a great alternative and you’ll be able to build up a customer base from and perhaps start saving for your own site.
You could be giving away 100 dollar bills, but….
If nobody knows you’re out there, whats the point? You have to get the word of mouth out there, start with family and friends and tell them to pass on the word to other people. They’ll be the most keen in the start to help you out! Add your site’s link to your email signature. This will be sent out at the bottom of every email and is a nice friendly way of getting the word out there. Wear your products everywhere, people will comment on how pretty something is and then you can let them know about your site! Contact craft blogs and let them know about your site. Send out samples and press releases to magazines. There are so many ways to advertise on a cheap budget and you only need to do a quick Internet search to find many more!
Never see your mistakes as failures, for really they are just another opportunity to really learn and remember, you’ll never know if you don’t give it a try! Most importantly, good luck!
I started my own site, www.peachypan.com, with not much clue of anything and I’ve grown so much as a person and as a business owner and it’s definitely been a remarkable experience.
-Fee
www.peachypan.com
Fee Harding is the owner of the successful site, Peachypan.com.
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If you are not selling your crafts online then you are missing out on sales. Now before I go any further let me dispel the myth “If I open up an online shop they will come”. Nope, this is absolutely not the case. Opening up an online shop on Etsy.com or Artfire.com is just the first step. The next step is marketing your online shop and attracting shoppers.
If you are new to selling crafts online let alone marketing crafts online then you might find yourself in over your head. Well opening up an online shop on Etsy.com and Artfire.com is very easy and each site has tons and tons of helpful blogs and articles about how add your handmade creations to your store. So to learn more about selling on Etsy.com or selling Artfire.com visit each site.
After you have opened up your shop and all of your craft photos are nice and pretty your craft descriptions are accurate and compelling, it is time to get started with an online marketing campaign. I strongly recommend starting with the basics of online marketing i.e. blogging, banner advertising on project wonderful, article writing, social networking etc.
Now if you are feeling overwhelmed with online marketing there is a solution, virtual craft shows, like HandmadeCraftShow.com. Virtual craft shows are very similar to regular craft shows with a few differences, one being the fee to participate. HandmadeCraftShow.com offers handmade artists a chance to display their crafts without breaking their online marketing budget.
HandmadeCraftShow.com’s team of online marketing experts promotes handmade artists all around the web i.e. facebook.com, twitter.com, classified ads, google.com and more. If you need traffic to your online craft shop then I recommend you give them a try.
HandmadeCraftShow.com is an online virtual craft show. We understand that selling crafts online can be a very daunting task. That is why HandmadeCraftShow.com works very hard marketing our craft show and increasing the online exposure of our handmade craft artists.