Cloud 9
21/06/09 19:22 Filed in: K00L Sites
Hi everyone!! We have been away for a while but here is our come-back!! The summer tourist season has started here in Greece and we are working 12 hours a day. This will continue for the next 5 months-hope we make it. Yet, the time away has given us the time to find some really kool sites and Cloud 9 is one of these "bad-boys." "My blog is devoted to: visual inspiration, faith, natural living, slow food, yoga, fashion, promoting emerging indie artists & designers & more!"
Cloud 9 is a combo of so many things it's hard to pin a title on it. At its core: it is a blog but it also has a marketplace, advertising, gallery, feature, news, contests and so on. There are all kinds of happenings-even submissions so go on over and who knows, you might get featured!!
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Lovely Package
13/05/09 19:40 Filed in: K00L Sites
You know how you always here the phrase, "Location, Location, Location" in terms of physical store location and how to increase traffic to that specific business-well here is one I just made up, "Packaging, Packaging, Packaging." I know it doesn't flow the same way but it is super important, especially to artists that work from home but want that professional touch. Imagine this: You just created this wonderful item and someone buys it as soon as you placed it on etsy or any other site you use-so you get it ready and go to ship it. Here is the problem!!! If your packaging is not as unique as the item inside, your customer starts off with the wrong impression even before opening to see what's inside. It's hard for us artists to agree with this because we believe in the item (the art) but in todays market (especially etsy) you need to be unique and one important aspect of this uniqueness is the packaging.
"Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize your product in order to attract the consumer’s attention. Sometimes packaging is so important that it cost more than the product itself in order to lure the consumers to buy it. Packaging should definitely be included in the 4 major P’s of marketing (product, place, promotion and price)."
-Taken from marketingdeviant.com- Read the article here
Lovely package is this amazing site that displays beautiful packaging from all over the world and for every type of product you can think of. Think of it as a blog for packaging as FFFFound or Dropular are for images-wait......I don't know if that last sentence made any sense. Anyway, the important thing for us to remember is that selling incorporates many things and one of the most important is packaging. Check out Lovely package and let me know what you all think....
Paper N Stitch
07/05/09 16:55 Filed in: K00L Sites
"The Paper N Stitch blog is a design and style blog that features artists, makers, crafters, and indie labels. In addition to these features, Paper N Stitch also features DIY projects and tutorials, fashion and home decor." So, without further ado.....ladies and gents, I present the Swiss Army Knife of blogs. P&S may not be Swiss but their blog/Exhibition site/Shops/Products and so on resemble that MacGyver like tool in so many ways. The blog is updated 3-5 times a day, so you can return often to find fresh/ new/infomative/ posts that will get your fingers clicking. The layout is very warm, icon based but not ultra modern, so you almost get the feeling it has a country style to it. If you're looking for featured artists, they got tons and the best part for me: tutorials!!! That's right, a whole section dedicated to teaching us how to make different kool items. Check it out.....
Think Bakery
28/04/09 13:58 Filed in: K00L Sites
Do you like "Baking Business?" Hold on, let me restate that......Do you like "Baking Business" if by me saying "Baking Business" I mean gathering tools that will in turn generate sales for your shop? Yummy, right? Well, that is what our new Kool site, Think Bakery is all about. "Welcome to BAKERY, where we bake and you enjoy. There’s just one catch — we don’t bake goods. We bake businesses. We know who you are, and we know what you need. And we have the ingredients to make your business work for you. With a dash of advertising, a pinch of public relations and a smidgen of marketing, we’ll shape your work into something you knead. Err, need."
Along with a great business model, Think bakery has an amazing blog that has provided me with insulting amounts(in a good way) of info and references. For me, it's a must read blog, that never gets old and gives a glimmer of hope to small/home based businesses . Check it out....
Design Milk
27/04/09 11:57 Filed in: K00L Sites
Do you like Design? Do you like Milk? Do you like designing with milk? Well, design-milk.com has to do with only one of these and we'll let you guess which one. Design Milk is a blog dedicated to art, architecture, & design but with a little extra in mind. Each blog post in design-milk not only acts as an informative piece of lit but also as a kind of go-between, bridging you and the item/shop the article is about. It's like being told about a wonderful piece of art and then, after showing interesting, that very same person takes you to meet the artist. They receive no money from sales and get all their economic support from sponsors, thus there is no forced voice in the reading. Go and check them out...