Our gift to you...

As we inch our way closer to the beginning of a new year, you may or may not have begun to plan out your New Year's Resolutions for personal and business goals. However, here at Daisy Craft, we have already set into motion some really exciting changes that we hope will help our store owners in the coming year.

We look forward to saying good-bye to a year that has had some bad economic happenings across the nation and look forward to throwing ourselves into making 2009 a very successful year for each of you.

We have revamped our perks for our online stores to offer more to each of you while keeping the same prices. We know that these changes will better serve our current and future crafters.

Please take a look the new perks lists below! If you currently have a Premium or Standard store, these changes go into effect immediately. The previous perks also apply for current craft stores only who opened Premium and Standard stores prior to 12.22.08. New stores will only receive the newly listed perks.

Premium Stores:

The quickest way to kick-off your online store! This store option is packed with a bundle of perks that will surely boost your business from the beginning. The benefits offered to Premium store owners are incalculable.
Listing fee: Free!
Transaction fee: 5% purchase price
Premium store fee: $64.95/ year (Over $450 value)
Premium store perks:
1. Customized store page with ad banner and matching buttons. The custom look will include background color, custom ad banner, custom ad button to use anywhere, custom text on your page and product listing links.* ($150 value)
2. Three additional ad banner changes during the year. Great for special promos, sales or holiday events. ($45 value)
3. Five additional ad buttons per year that will be customized to link directly to your online store. Perfect for easy advertising on blogs and other sites. Also the code will be available for others to post your buttons on their blogs and sites as well. ($25 value)
4. Feature seller rotation ($75 value) *
5. Recently Listed Items rotation on the Home Page. Perfect for showing off your items each time you list! ($75 value)
6. Four marketing give-aways a year. This is a great way to help boost your business. Give-aways will be done on Daisy Craft and other Web sites where we advertise. More advertising bang for your buck! ($150 value)

Standard Stores:
The perfect store option if you want to grow your business over time. At an affordable price with perks not available for free stores, you can jump-start your online business without a lot of up-front costs.
Listing fee: Free!
Transaction fee: 5% purchase price
Standard store fee: $5.95/ month (Over $300 value)
Standard store perks:
1. Customized store page with ad banner and matching button. The custom look will include background color, custom ad banner, custom ad button to use anywhere. Text not included.* ($105 value)
2. Two additional ad banner changes during one year. Great for special promos, sales or holiday events. ($30 value)*
3. Three additional ad buttons per year that will be customized to link directly to your online store. Perfect for easy advertising on blogs and other sites. Also the code will be available for others to post your buttons on their blogs and sites as well. ($15 value)*
4. Recently Listed Items rotation on the Home Page. Perfect for showing off your items each time you list! ($75 value)*
5. Two marketing give-aways a year. This is a great way to help boost your business. Give-aways will be done on Daisy Craft and other Web sites where we advertise. More advertising bang for your buck! ($75 value)*


*Please note that in order to receive these listed perks, your account must remain active and current. The Standard Store perks are only available throughout the year and cannot be received all in one month (with the exception of perk #1). To be eligible for the Recently Listed Items feature, your account must remain active. Sorry, no refunds are available.

We are so excited to help small business like yours take off in the New Year. We are doubling our advertising and taking part in some exciting events that will help you get the online presence that will equate to greater sales!

We've also added "Marketing" to the site to help you promote your online store at a very, low cost. We are now offering marketing buttons for only $5 each. These buttons are great for posting on your blogs and other sites that can link directly to your Daisy Craft store page. These buttons normally cost about $20 dollars for others to make, but we want you to have the same benefits for a more affordable price!

Don't forget to take part in our Daisy Craft community where you can share ideas, crafting tips, announce your craft events and so on!

New Feature

Have you seen the new feature on Daisy Craft?

We are so excited to offer "Recent Products" as a way to boost the sales of our store owners. The most recently listed products of our Standard and Premium Store owners will be automatically listed on the Home Page!

The product listings have a direct link to your products and store!! 

It's fantastic! 

If you'd like to get started today, go to our Web site, click on "Open A Store" and choose either the "Standard" or "Premium" store. 

Be sure to follow the two step process to get started on Daisy Craft!

Contact us with any questions!!

Holiday Gift Ideas...

Christmas is just around the corner!! Get into the hand-made gift fever!

It's hard to believe that this year is almost over~it just seems like we welcomed in 2008. Now that I am used to writing 2008 or 08 on checks, cards and every other place I have to add the date-- it switches on me. I guess things could be worse like figuring out what gifts to give and deciding on a gift budget!

The holidays are fast approaching and what a great time to start thinking about giving hand-made, hand-crafted gifts! There's nothing better than giving something that you've made yourself, or that is a unique gift hand-made by someone else.

Here are some reasons to give hand-made gifts this year:

1. Hand-crafted gifts say that you put thought into purchasing a gift for the receiver. You've thought about them and found a unique gift just as unique as they are.
2. Hand-crafted gifts are usually the highest-quality gifts, too. Not only do you find one-of-a-kind treasures, but you also know that the crafter has put their special skills to perfect use. They love making their products and usually make sure that every item is crafted to their best ability. That's something that can't be purchased in a store from items that are mass produced!
3. Support small businesses by purchasing great products from individuals!
4. Hand-crafted gifts can usually be customized to meet color schemes and other variables to suit your gift needs! That's the great thing about handmade gifts--- they are generally made-to-order!
5. Great gifts for any holiday budget!

Be sure to check out the beautiful hand-crafted items and don't forget to order your holiday cards! All available on Daisy Craft!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We just wanted to take this time to wish YOU a very Happy Thanksgiving! 

We hope that you have the opportunity to enjoy quality time with family, friends and that you fill your bellies with delicious foods.

I hope that each of you also take time out to ponder and hopefully express to others what you're thankful for. 

It's one of the greatest holidays that we have to only reflect on all the positive in our lives. 

We're thankful that you're with us here at Daisy Craft and look forward to a fantastic rest of the year and an even BIGGER year in 2009!

Holiday shopping stressing you out?

Holiday Shopping Made Easy Easier!

I am not even close to beginning to think about the upcoming holidays. I know that Thanksgiving is next week and that just boggles my mind? I don't even know what happened to the previous 10 months, but I don't think we experienced all 10 of them. I think Father Time is playing some might cruel jokes on us these days.

I can handle getting the details together for next week's Thanksgiving Day events--- which really only include; sleeping in, cooking, eating, watching football, cleaning the kitchen, eating more, more football, eating pie and drifting off to sleep.

What I can't handle is the stresses of holiday shopping. I am not a huge fan of crowds. I like to get in, get what I need and check out in a reasonable amount of time. However, this year, I don't even know what I am getting anyone (except my son, he's easy to shop for.)

Do you hate waiting in long lines? Fighting crowded stores? Seeing your items "out of stock?" Or are you the type of person who thrives on planning out their Black Friday shopping trips down to the very minute, noting what they're purchasing at each store and making a game plan to go in teams, split up and grab enough sale items to split between people? (Yes, I know some of these people).

Well, there is a great trend emerging for those of us looking for the hand-made touch for holiday gifts and these events are being held in neighborhoods all over the U.S.

What are these events called? Boutiques

These events are organized mostly by women who are into crafting and selling various products. They gather in one location and create a mini-shopping mall in neighborhoods, homes, club houses, hotels and so on.

I am pleased as punch to have started a forum to advertise for these great events! I think the best gifts are those that are made by hand. They're unique, quality is high and I know that I am supporting small businesses!

Visit Community Forums: Crafting Events for the events going on now! If you know of others, please feel free to contact us and have your event listed on our site.

I hope that we each remember to take time as we think about what "gifts" we're giving, to give back to our communities. Our food drive is still going on. It's easy to do. Just contact your local food bank, find out their needs and collect away!

Open for business!

Did you think the day would ever come where I would finally announce, "We're open for business?"

Me, either. 

It's been a long, daunting process with countless hours of stress, worry, planning, testing, thinking, strategizing, confusion, doubt and on and on.However, it has totally been worth it. Although there was really only one other site that would be my competitor when I started this project, now the Web is full of similar sites--but, I am NOT discouraged. 

I know many of you make wonderful hand-crafted and produce many hand-made items that will sell on Daisy Craft. This is my personal invitation to each of you to open a store on Daisy Craft. Listing your products for sell is FREE!! You can't beat that deal!

So tell your wives, your friends, your neighbors and the whole wide world!! We do have some really adorable buttons available for you to post on your blogs to help us get the word out. Visit Marketing and grab your button!

Thanks for all the support and feedback that I've received in this process! 

~Happy Crafting!

Nov 7th Daisy Craft Launch Date!

Join us as we kick-off the start of Daisy Craft!

We will be having a Launch Promotion & Referral Give-away!! You don't want to miss out!

We also have a HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT we're so excited to share with everyone--- we can barely contain ourselves from spilling the beans now!

We'll see you live on Nov. 7 at daisycraft.com!

Which store is for you?

Here are the store options available for Daisy Craft. We will be announcing a "site launch promotion" as well as our first community service project for our first month of operation. Stay tuned!

Look over the store options, contact us with any questions at info@daisycraft.com. In the meantime, build up your product inventory!!

Store Biz

There are three ways to sell on the site. You can create a free store, standard store or open a premium store. Daisy Craft’s mission is to provide the best resources for our clients. Part of our mission is to help you reach your personal financial goals. As part of owning a Standard or Premium store, you will receive a variety of “perks.” The perks will change periodically to meet the needs of the store owners.

Three types of stores to choose from:

Free stores: A great way to list your products. If you have more than one variety, color and so on—creating a store would give you a head start in building your online business.

Listing fee: Free

Transaction fee: 5% purchase price

Standard Store: The perfect store option if you want to grow your business over time. At an affordable price with perks not available for free stores, you can jump-start your online business without a lot of up-front costs.

Listing fee: Free

Transaction fee: 5% purchase price

Standard store fee: $5.95/ month

Standard store perks:

1. $5-off your first Daisy Craft Marketing Kit purchase.

2. 250 business cards ($30 value) OR 100 Postcards ($40 value) with online store information.

3. $10-off Professional Press Release about your online store.

4. Free marketing on other sites! Daisy Craft is partnered with other large shopping sites and will post some of your products to increase your online presence and traffic to your Daisy Craft store. We will periodically post 15 of your products on other sites that link back to your Daisy Craft store throughout the year.*

Premium stores: The quickest way to kick-off your online store! This store option is packed with a bundle of perks that will surely boost your business from the beginning. The benefits offered to Premium store owners are incalculable.

Listing fee: Free

Transaction fee: 5% purchase price

Premium store fee: $64.95/ year

Premium store perks:

1.Professionally-written press release ($100 value)

The press release will be featured in our new business page for six months. This added advertisement for your store will produce additional traffic to your site. In addition, you can use the press release to send to local newspapers to announce your new business.*

2. 250 business cards ($30 value) OR 100 Postcards ($40 value) with online store information.

3. Feature seller rotation ($75 value) *

4. $10-off your first marketing kit purchase

5. Free marketing on other sites (Priceless!).

Daisy Craft is partnered with other large shopping sites and will post some of your products to increase your online presence and traffic to your Daisy Craft store. We will periodically post 30 of your products on other sites that link back to your Daisy Craft store throughout the year.*

*Accounts for Standard and Premium stores must remain in active status to receive outlined perks, such as discounts, free marketing, feature seller rotation and others as listed or that may be listed in the future. A minimum active status on Daisy Craft is signing into your account every 30 days or less and having at least five items actively listed for sale.

Logo design completed

We finally have the logo design completed for Daisy Craft. It is just one more step that had to be completed as we go forward with the launch of the site. 

The site should be completed mid-October and that should give me enough time to get all the other business items in order to meet my goal of the Oct. 31st launch date!!

If you'd like more information regarding the site and what it's all about, e-mail us at info@daisycraft.com.

Happy Crafting!!!

Launch date to be announced...

What a ride this has been----trying to start a business in the middle of a nation-wide financial crisis is either completely insane or brilliant. Either way it turns out--- it has taken a battle that I intend to keep winning!!

I have a launch date of Oct. 31, 2008!!!

I will be meeting with the Web developing firm starting tomorrow to have the site designed and they will begin building it immediately. I am realistic in knowing that my desired launch date may not be met---but, I will remain optimistic that it will be. 

I look forward to keep you updated as the site progresses. In the meantime, I hope that you continue to build your product inventory to sell, sell, sell!!!

Web site coming soon...

Daisy Craft's site, daisycraft.com will be available Fall 2008!! For more information regarding the features that will be available on the site-- such as creating your own online craft store-- e-mail daisycraft@gmail.com.