In honor of Father's Day, our next challenge will be "For the Guys." Deadline for submitting your item is noon, May 31. Voting will take place June 1–8, and the winner will be announced June 9.
Go here to enter your entry:
http://tinyurl.com/bgky39
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cleveland Handmade Giveaway Rules
Giveaways on Cleveland Handmade are a great way for us to attract new visitors and get the word out about our team and individual members. We intend for this to be a monthly feature, although if there is enough interest we may increase the frequency. Entrants will be asked to choose their favorite item from the giveaway shop as well as their favorite item from another CH shop so that this is a promotion for more than just the person sponsoring the giveaway.
If you would like to participate in a giveaway, here are the rules:
1. One CH-hosted giveaway per member per year.
2. Your item must be valued at $15 or higher. Those who make less expensive items can put together multiple items as a group to reach the minimum.
3. Your item and shop must be in the spirit of "handmade" and represent Cleveland Handmade well. Mass-produced items that are only minimally altered will not be considered, even if they qualify as "handmade" by Etsy standards. Team leadership reserves the right to decline any giveaway item offered or participation from a given shop for any reason.
4. Your giveaway item does NOT have to be something you have listed in your shop, although it should reflect the quality and style of what is in your shop. For example, if your thing is modern sterling silver jewelry, your giveaway should not be a paper bookmark.
5. Your giveaway should be an actual item, not a gift certificate or free shipping or anything like that.
6. You must have good photos and at least a dozen items listed in your shop to participate. We're putting our best foot forward here and asking people to take a look around, so you should represent the team well.
7. You are responsible for shipping the giveaway item to the winner at your expense. Entries will be open to people in the United States only, because international contest law gets complicated. If your item gets lost in the mail, it is your responsibility to replace and reship the item. We want happy customers.
8. Giveaways will be scheduled first come, first served, although we may do some slight mixing of the order to prevent similar items from being offered one after the other. (Variety is good.)
9. Team members are not eligible to win prizes.
10. Giveaway entries will be open for one week. Winners will be chosen via the Random Number Generator. CH will contact the winner and pass along their shipping info to the giveaway sponsor.
11. We reserve the right to adjust or modify these rules at any time.
To be considered for sponsoring a giveaway, enter your info here:
If you would like to participate in a giveaway, here are the rules:
1. One CH-hosted giveaway per member per year.
2. Your item must be valued at $15 or higher. Those who make less expensive items can put together multiple items as a group to reach the minimum.
3. Your item and shop must be in the spirit of "handmade" and represent Cleveland Handmade well. Mass-produced items that are only minimally altered will not be considered, even if they qualify as "handmade" by Etsy standards. Team leadership reserves the right to decline any giveaway item offered or participation from a given shop for any reason.
4. Your giveaway item does NOT have to be something you have listed in your shop, although it should reflect the quality and style of what is in your shop. For example, if your thing is modern sterling silver jewelry, your giveaway should not be a paper bookmark.
5. Your giveaway should be an actual item, not a gift certificate or free shipping or anything like that.
6. You must have good photos and at least a dozen items listed in your shop to participate. We're putting our best foot forward here and asking people to take a look around, so you should represent the team well.
7. You are responsible for shipping the giveaway item to the winner at your expense. Entries will be open to people in the United States only, because international contest law gets complicated. If your item gets lost in the mail, it is your responsibility to replace and reship the item. We want happy customers.
8. Giveaways will be scheduled first come, first served, although we may do some slight mixing of the order to prevent similar items from being offered one after the other. (Variety is good.)
9. Team members are not eligible to win prizes.
10. Giveaway entries will be open for one week. Winners will be chosen via the Random Number Generator. CH will contact the winner and pass along their shipping info to the giveaway sponsor.
11. We reserve the right to adjust or modify these rules at any time.
To be considered for sponsoring a giveaway, enter your info here:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Team Challenge: May Flowers
By popular acclaim (that is, seventy billion exact same suggestions), the next challenge is May Flowers. Submissions will be accepted until noon, May 4. Voting will be May 5-11, and the winner will be announced May 12.
Go here to enter your entry:
http://tinyurl.com/bgky39
Go here to enter your entry:
http://tinyurl.com/bgky39
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Waterloo Arts Fest application
The Waterloo Arts Fest in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland will be held June 27, 2009. They are seeking vendors. You can download more information and an application here.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Cleveland Handmade Promo Postcard!
this set of postcards is full! please convo smashing if you are interested in future postcard spots :)
we are going to print postcards with photos of (up to) 15 different items made by Cleveys!
each photo (if we get 15 shops to participate) will be about an inch square and our ClevelandHandmade logo will also be featured. the back of the post cards will give the name/URL of each shop featured on the front along with a blurb about our team and how and where to find us.
we can inexpensively print a large number of postcards if 15 shops pitch in to cover the cost of printing. these cards can then be distributed to team members to pass out at shows, leave at coffee shops or even mail to local boutiques and galleries. it's really important that we have team info to pass out at Oddmall, too! :)
depending on the number of participants (and when my coupon code expires), we could ideally get 3000 postcards for just under $10 a person.
please contact Kathy at smashing AT cox DOT net or convo "smashing" on etsy if you are interested or have any questions.
thanks!
:)
we are going to print postcards with photos of (up to) 15 different items made by Cleveys!
each photo (if we get 15 shops to participate) will be about an inch square and our ClevelandHandmade logo will also be featured. the back of the post cards will give the name/URL of each shop featured on the front along with a blurb about our team and how and where to find us.
we can inexpensively print a large number of postcards if 15 shops pitch in to cover the cost of printing. these cards can then be distributed to team members to pass out at shows, leave at coffee shops or even mail to local boutiques and galleries. it's really important that we have team info to pass out at Oddmall, too! :)
depending on the number of participants (and when my coupon code expires), we could ideally get 3000 postcards for just under $10 a person.
please contact Kathy at smashing AT cox DOT net or convo "smashing" on etsy if you are interested or have any questions.
thanks!
:)
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Pitch-in Team Suggestions
What can individuals do to help the team as a whole? It could be a crazy, wacked out idea. Doesn't matter. Right now we're just brainstorming.
Think about things that will raise our visibility as a group in the local community, spread the word about individual team members' work to people who haven't seen it before, get people out to the shows that we do (sponsored by us or sponsored by others), educate the public and/or your teammates, support your teammates, and ultimately drive more sales.
Eventually, we're going to put these together in a big list of possibilities and ask that each member consider doing one or more of them.
Tell us your ideas here
We will discuss these ideas and more at the playdate!
Think about things that will raise our visibility as a group in the local community, spread the word about individual team members' work to people who haven't seen it before, get people out to the shows that we do (sponsored by us or sponsored by others), educate the public and/or your teammates, support your teammates, and ultimately drive more sales.
Eventually, we're going to put these together in a big list of possibilities and ask that each member consider doing one or more of them.
Tell us your ideas here
We will discuss these ideas and more at the playdate!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Setting up Google Base for your shop - helpful links and tutorials
Adding your items to Google Base can be confusing. You don't have to understand how it works, or how the RSS feed works to do this. Here are some links to tutorials and information to help you figure out how to set it up. Once it is set up, you don't have to do it again. You can set it to automatically update on its own.
If you have any trouble getting it to work, you are welcome to contact me, LazyTcrochet, or contact support@Etsy.com. They were very helpful when I had issues with it.
The best online tutorial for this is on GoTo's blog: http://www.gotogreatpanes.com/blog/2009/01/31/etsy-rss-and-google-base/
Be sure to read the comments under the post as well. Now that Etsy's RSS feed works with Google Base, it's much easier to schedule the data feed to update automatically. I have mine set to update once a week. If you are loading many new items every day, you may want to set yours to update every day. If your items aren't changing that much throughout the week, then once a week should be fine. I think Google may have an issue about updating your feed too often if it's not necessary.
Don't be intimidated by all this. Sign up for a Google account, if you haven't already, and go to Google Base. Open a new tab or page to have access to your shop's main page. And open another tab or page with the tutorial instructions. Then you can go back and forth while you are working on it.
There is more information in the "Storque" article here... http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-feed-enhancements-google-base-and-more-3173/
Etsy posted instructions there, as well as in the selling FAQ's here... http://www.etsy.com/faq_selling.php#feed_base
Once you have it set up, it may take Google awhile to process the information. You can check back and make sure that it says that it was successful and that your items are "published and searchable." There may be certain keywords in your listings that they may find objectionable and a scheduled upload may "fail" even though it has gone through successfully many times before. Just check in once in awhile to make sure that all is well.
If you have any trouble getting it to work, you are welcome to contact me, LazyTcrochet, or contact support@Etsy.com. They were very helpful when I had issues with it.
The best online tutorial for this is on GoTo's blog: http://www.gotogreatpanes.com/blog/2009/01/31/etsy-rss-and-google-base/
Be sure to read the comments under the post as well. Now that Etsy's RSS feed works with Google Base, it's much easier to schedule the data feed to update automatically. I have mine set to update once a week. If you are loading many new items every day, you may want to set yours to update every day. If your items aren't changing that much throughout the week, then once a week should be fine. I think Google may have an issue about updating your feed too often if it's not necessary.
Don't be intimidated by all this. Sign up for a Google account, if you haven't already, and go to Google Base. Open a new tab or page to have access to your shop's main page. And open another tab or page with the tutorial instructions. Then you can go back and forth while you are working on it.
There is more information in the "Storque" article here... http://www.etsy.com/storque/etsy-news/tech-updates-feed-enhancements-google-base-and-more-3173/
Etsy posted instructions there, as well as in the selling FAQ's here... http://www.etsy.com/faq_selling.php#feed_base
Once you have it set up, it may take Google awhile to process the information. You can check back and make sure that it says that it was successful and that your items are "published and searchable." There may be certain keywords in your listings that they may find objectionable and a scheduled upload may "fail" even though it has gone through successfully many times before. Just check in once in awhile to make sure that all is well.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Challenge: "Welcome, Spring!"
Submit a listing for the spring challenge, "Welcome, Spring!" Items do not have to be all about flowers or bunnies or what have you, but should reflect what spring means to you.
http://tinyurl.com/bgky39
Deadline is noon March 16.
http://tinyurl.com/bgky39
Deadline is noon March 16.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Dreaming of Spring
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=40944
Thanks arielleandpamela for creating such a beautiful taste of Spring! Visit ClevelandHandmade.com for more.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
CALL FOR ARTISTS! Oddmall show!
Hudson, Ohio will be the site of the first annual Oddmall Emporium of the Weird on Saturday, May 9th, 2009.
Oddmall needs you! Reserve your booth by February 8th and save 20%!
To apply for the show: "email a sample or three of your work (72 dpi jpegs, please) or a link to your website to Andy at mailto:andy@andyhopp.com?subject=Oddmall."
"We are looking for various performers to entertain the masses at Oddmall. If you are a musician, magician, juggler, dancer, balloon animal maker, or any other unusual performer and you'd like to strut your stuff at Oddmall please contact Andy at andy@andyhopp.com."
Thursday, January 8, 2009
SIDS Gift Basket Donation
Sudden Infant Death Network of Ohio is holding its 9th Annual Reverse Raffle "A Night to Remember" on February 21, 2009
I am putting together a Cleveland Handmade gift basket for donation to the raffle. If you are interested in donating an item, gift certificate, or whatever else you can think, of please send me a convo on etsy or an email LeahAna@gmail.com
You can sent it to me snail mail or drop your item off at my house (west side) or work (east side)
There isn't much time! Donations need to be received by Jan 29 so if you want in, you better act fast!
There is also an opportunity to include a Cleveland Handmade advertisement in the event's program. $50 for a half page ad anyone interested in chipping in a few bucks or designing it???
I am putting together a Cleveland Handmade gift basket for donation to the raffle. If you are interested in donating an item, gift certificate, or whatever else you can think, of please send me a convo on etsy or an email LeahAna@gmail.com
You can sent it to me snail mail or drop your item off at my house (west side) or work (east side)
There isn't much time! Donations need to be received by Jan 29 so if you want in, you better act fast!
There is also an opportunity to include a Cleveland Handmade advertisement in the event's program. $50 for a half page ad anyone interested in chipping in a few bucks or designing it???
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