Marketing Tips: 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Your B2B Pinterest Strategy

As we’ve discussed before, Pinterest can be an excellent platform for you to market your Misi Store and your beautiful creations in a unique way. However, sometimes, developing a good Pinterest strategy can be tough. To help on your endeavor, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of 10 “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for your Pinterest marketing strategy. 1. DO use the 5+5+2 model in creating your first boards. If you haven’t started pinning...

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DIY ~ Styles Eats: Acrylic Trays

A lot of caterers use acrylic trays as a way to present food. It is a really clean and modern way to serve food to your guests. This project shows you how to make your own tray. We’ve done it here for cotton candy but you could use it for just about anything on a stick. It is really simple, all you need is to be able to drill a few holes. I think these would be great for a cocktail party or baby shower, or making an awesome Amy Atlas style...

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DIY: Grow an Indoor Compost Garden

Stews certainly help to take the chill out of winter. That's why we make a lot of these warm and hardy meals in our house. But it seems a shame to consign all the lovely leftover vegetable scraps—the roots, the bulbs, the carrot tops—to the compost bin.  So, let's see how you can make your own little inside home garden: Above: Root vegetables such as the carrots, potatoes, and beets above lend themselves quite well to compost gardening,...

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Pricing – How to figure it out?

One of the biggest questions that comes up in the hand-made crafts selling business is “how do I price my products?”  I’m not an author yet, but I’m sure that this question also comes up there.  Well, there are several different methods that you can use to answer this question. First of all, it’s going to depend on your purpose for selling?  Are you selling your crafts for the purpose of funding those crafts?  In which...

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5 Ways to Make Friendship Bracelets

Friendship bracelets are back and bigger than ever, and here are a whole stack of cool bracelets to make with string, thread, cord, or rope.All you need is some string, some time, and a few great bracelet ideas to make your own homemade wristwear. 1. Friendship Bracelets, All Grown Up It’s the same technique practiced by summer campers everywhere. But when fashioned in sophisticated colors and luxurious strings and yarns with metallic...

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How to Get a Verified Account on Twitter

Wouldn't it be cool if you had that white check mark in a blue cloud on your Twitter profile? If you get one, it means you hold a "verified account." Twitter uses verification to establish the authenticity of tweeters, and does so proactively—they concentrate on "highly sought users in music, acting, fashion, government, politics, religion, journalism, media, advertising, business, and other key interest areas." If you (or your boss/client) fit...

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What Marketing Really Is ( and How It Can Help Your MISI Shop)

Hello MISIANS! It sounds like the biggest thing keeping you from sharing your own handmade goodness with the world is the you are terrified by “marketing.” So let’s clear this right up! Marketing = all communication with the people who will (and do) love your work. This means 3 things: Marketing can be as simple as talking to people who love what you make. Everything that communicates is marketing; including your labels, your...

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Trust ~ How to Increase your MISI Sales

Trust is a huge piece of the buying process. I’d wager that trust matters the most, not only when a customer buys something, but also when he recommends that product to another person. Before you buy a product or service, you need to trust that you’re going to get what you pay for. Trust can mean the difference between zero sales and LOTS of sales, no matter what product or service you’re trying to sell. You could sell the most amazing...

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