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Talking Shop with Etsy Admin: Chad Dickerson, Sara Hicks, Matt Stinchcomb & Maria Thomas

2009-06-11T18:00:00-05:00

Hi All,

Thanks for listening to this podcast (otherwise known as online audio files) and for participating on Etsy. We asked for your questions in the comments of this post, and below we've embedded audio files with our responses. We are creating a written transcript of the audio files as well. With each response, we've clustered related links if you'd like to further explore a resource we refer to in our remarks.

We’ve done our best to provide context to your questions. As we listened to our remarks in their entirety, we of course thought, “Oh, we should have mentioned this” or “We could have been clearer about that.” Alas, we’re posting the audio and hoping that — along with our "ums and uhs" — you find this information helpful.

If your question was not answered, you may convo us, and we’ll do our best to answer. Please understand that many of us receive quite a few convos so our response time may not be instantaneous.

Thank you for buying and selling on Etsy.

Maria Thomas, Etsy's CEO

- Intro (download transcript)

Ideas Forums — Where members can suggest ways to improve Etsy.
Virtual Labs — Look for Newbie Chats, Community Chat with Matt, Shop Critiques, Team Meetings, and more.
Meet ups with Etsy Admin — Opportunities for Admin and members to meet face-to-face with each other.

Matt Stinchcomb, Etsy's VP of Community

- Advertising and marketing (download transcript)

Etsy in the Press — Our monthly round ups of major coverage.
Cooperative Advertising Program — Previously, we had more partners, but due to the economy and shifting media practices, CRAFTzine is now just online and no longer has a print version, and Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion is no longer published.
Handmade Moment — Etsy's video contest running throughout summer of 2009. Get involved!
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) — Learn more in our Marketing posts.
Team Grants — Etsy's program to assist creative, dedicated and energetic Teams with financial resources.
Guest Curators and Shop Live hosts, such as:
- Joy Behar of The View
- Rosie O'Donnell, Rosie's Broadway Kids charity
- Eddie Ross, of Bravo's Top Design
- and many more!
Holiday underwriting on NPR (National Public Radio sponsorship) — Some forum threads with reactions:
- http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6041353
- http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5889566
An example of another Etsy initiative designed to help promote the site and sellers:
- http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6130439

Sara Hicks, Etsy's VP of Product Development

- Seller tools (download transcript)

Tech Updates — Find out about new and improved site features through this featured column. Recent announcements include:
- Rearrange Your Shop — beta test of a new seller tool coming soon.
- Beta Test of Shipping Regions Tool — beta test of a new seller tool coming soon.
- Pay Your Etsy Bill with PayPal
- Etsy Web Analytics (Google Analytics for Your Etsy Shop)
Talking Product with Sara.

- Shopping site features

Search — Ongoing, iterative improvements to this site feature. Recent announcements include:
Checkout — Ongoing, iterative improvements to this site feature.
Favorites — Ongoing, iterative improvements to this site feature.

Maria

- Reselling & Flagging (download transcript)

Resellers on Etsy

Chad Dickerson, Etsy's CTO (Chief Technology Officer)

- Site traffic (download transcript)

Talking Tech with Chad.
Statistics, Surveys, and the monthly Weather Report.
Handmade Code — Our series profiling new applications to come out of the Etsy Developer Community. An API is basically a set of tools that allows third-party developers to build new applications based on the unique data and capabilities provided by, in this case, Etsy.com.

Maria

- Vintage & Supplies (download transcript)

Etsy Finds Vintage — Our blog/email series dedicated to vintage on Etsy.

Matt Stinchcomb, Etsy's VP of Community

- Home page and other curated areas of Etsy (download transcript)

Tune in to Merchandising Desk posts and seller chats.
Treasury How-To's
Photography How-To's, such as:
- Photographing for Success
Voter — FAQs about this interactive site feature.

- How to get your items noticed

Seller Handbook — All our how-to's about selling on Etsy. In particular check out:
- Photography How-To's, like Feature-Friendly Photos
- Social Networking How-to's, such as Etsy's Guide to Blogging
- Google Analytics for your Etsy Shop, which allows you to track traffic to your shop
Etsy Teams — Self-organized groups of members who band together because of a common, interest, craft, location, or marketing philosophy.
Etsy Success email list — Subscribe and get helpful tips delivered to your inbox.

Maria

- Closing remarks (download transcript)

It's been an experiment recording this podcast. We're not sure about the format ourselves, but we'd love to hear your thoughts in this forum thread.

We found all of the items below through Pounce Undiscovered.

Hello Craft Podcast: Your Handmade Holiday Stories Wanted!

2008-12-30T13:00:00-05:00

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade. tinaseamonster, who runs the podcast, wants to hear your stories from the holiday — what handmade gifts did you give and receive? What weird and wonderful, touching or sad tales do you have to share? Here's the latest episode to get you in that storytelling mood!

This week's episode includes three stories of handmade holidays. Kelly Rand of I Heart Orange tells us about a lost gift found, Tina Seamonster refuses a Christmas tree skirt, and Meaghan O'Malley of Oh Ginger explains why making for the holidays is important to her.

Click here to download the episode (right-click and choose "save as" on PC, or control-click and choose "save link as" on Mac).

Learn how to contribute to the podcast!

Seller How-to: PayPal Coming to Etsy Virtual Labs!

2008-11-13T11:00:00-05:00

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UPDATE: Please download the PDF file so you can follow along with this audio podcast of Deb Popek's Paypal Virtual Lab. It's a very thorough resource for sellers who use Paypal. Thanks for listening and thanks to Deb for doing this! Below, we've typed up some highlights from the talk as well as some other tips Deb shared with us while visiting the Etsy Labs.

Web Accept Express (WAX Payment): Paying with a credit card without a PayPal account
Sellers have the option to offer the WAX payment through their PayPal account settings. There are spending limitations for buyers who use WAX. The spending limit follows the specific credit card they selected to use for a period of four months. At the end of the four month period, the limit will be reset to the standard pre-verified (by PayPal) spending limit. The buyer may use a different card, which will have it's own four month period and spending criteria.

PayPal Mobile: Manage your business by phone
* Check balance
* Send and request money
* Buy things from mobile websites

PayPal Shipping Labels: A convenient service for Etsy-sized businesses
* Create postage-paid shipping labels in just minutes
* Pay for shipping and insurance with your PayPal account, with no monthly fees or surcharges
* Create and print a pre-filled packing slip, detailing what you are shipping to your buyer
* Ship internationally with PayPal-provided Customs forms
* Track and confirm the arrival of your shipments with delivery confirmation
* Void your shipping label and get a refund for misprinted labels canceled within 24 hours
* Print multiple U.S. Postal Service labels at once with MultiOrder Shipping

Benefits of using PayPal:
* Free for Buyers
* Fast
* Financial information is kept private
* Payments are deposited instantly
* Seller Protection Policy
* Transfer money from PayPal account to bank accounts
* Fraud prevention protection

Business or Premier Account?
Both accounts offer all of the following services with the Business account offering one additional feature: Multi-user access.

* Send money
* 24-hour fraud surveillance
* Customer Service availability
* eBay Tools
* Merchant Services
* Accept credit or debit cards
* PayPal Debit Card

Fight Phishing Emails:
PayPal is working with Iconix eMail ID, which can reduce phishing by confirming whether or not an email is really from Paypal. It's FREE, and it works with most major email services. More information: http://www.iconix.com/paypal/

PayPal Resources:

Merchant Support
1-888-221-1161

Merchant Tech Services
paypal.com/mts

PayPal Radio
paypal.com/paypalradio

Online Merchant Network
onlinemerchantnetwork.com

PayPal Blog
thepaypalblog.com

[the following was originally published on October 30th, 2008]

Dear Sellers,

We are very excited to announce that PayPal customer service representative Deb Popek will be hosting a live Virtual Lab on November 6, 2008 at 3PM EDT. She is here to answer your questions and walk us through some of the features and tools that PayPal offers.

A few of the topics she plans to cover include:

1. The benefits of using PayPal

2. Survey results

3. Premier/business accounts vs. personal accounts

4. Maximizing your global footprint/new world marketing

5. PayPal account settings and security

6. The many ways to send/receive payments

5. WAX (Web Accept Express) payments, i.e. using a credit card to pay without a PayPal account

6. A review of PayPal resources

This is also a unique opportunity to get your PayPal questions answered directly by an expert. Please bring your queries to the Virtual Labs, or better yet list, them in the comments below!

Fan Art Talk in the Virtual Labs: Special Guest Professor Henry Jenkins

2008-10-31T12:22:00-05:00

UPDATE: This is the podcast of the conversation with Prof. Jenkins that took place October 16, 2008 in Etsy's Virtual Lab.

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Please share your thoughts in the comments!

[The following was originally published on Oct 10, 2008.]

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor Henry Jenkins accepted Etsy's invitation to participate via webcam in a Virtual Lab talk about fan art. All are welcome to participate (all you need is an Etsy username, and it is free to register). Please join us in the Storque room of the Virtual Labs (Etsy's interactive chat room), Thursday October 16, 3-4pm EDT.

Fan art is a fascinating example of the intersection between art, pop culture and commerce. In fact, some fan artists sell their work on Etsy. Due to the nature of fan art, there are many intellectual property issues. Etsy is a venue and, as such takes very seriously issues of copyright and intellectual property. See our policies here. However, this talk is not meant to address the many legal issues concerning fan art, offer legal advice to artists or to talk about specific items on Etsy. Rather, Professor Jenkins will give context and history to fan art and speak about its transformations in the digital age.

Fan art — what is it and what is its history? Where did it come from and why did people start making it? Professor Jenkins wrote a seminal academic book — "Textual Poachers" published in 1992 — about fandom — television and science fiction fans and their art, writings and fan culture. His book challenged much of the theory about spectatorship and the consumption of popular culture, and he presented a new model — one in which the audience plays an active role in creating meaning from entertainment and cultural properties.

Much has changed in the world of media and fandom over the past 15 years. Whereas much of fandom used to exist largely through the exchange of zines through snail mail and face-to-face meet ups at conventions, today many fan activities and communities have moved online and sought immediate though media-ted relationships with each other and to the authors and corporations that offer stories and characters — often very immursive worlds — to consumers. Professor Jenkins's recent book "Convergence Culture" (2006) details some vivid accounts how these 21st century media properties connect deeply with fans and how in turn, fans are seeking deeper, more participatory relationships with those works. These present challenges both to fans — who are now more visible and therefore vulnerable to media giants' lawyers — as well as to companies and authors who have legitimate rights to protect their properties but at the same time don't want to alienate their fans.

These are really complicated issues! The goal of the talk is to give creators and customers reference points and a deeper understanding of those complexities. We're so excited to welcome Professor Jenkins to share his knowledge with us and fuel some lively discussion about the role of fan art in our society.

We're looking forward to it and hope you can make it!

Podcasting, Anyone? New Voices are Changing the Public Radio Marketplace

2008-03-03T00:30:00-05:00

In this Podcasting Series, we'll be cross-pollinating with a community of independent radio producers. What do we have in common? A love for making things and expressing ourselves, a desire to connect with other passionate people, and a variegated cross-section of people ranging from amateur to professional and everything in between. We're also ambitious and want to change the status quo!

Public Radio is in a period of dynamic experimentation, trying to capture the energy of the Web 2.0 by crowdsourcing content from user-generated contributions and reaching out to hear new voices. In the interview below, I spoke with radio producers and community organizers Jones Franzel, Jaimita Haskell and Kiera Feldman, who will talk with us about their adventures in independent radio in an Online Workshop on March 12th. The piece below is sprinkled with some links to favorite shows. Post more of your faves in the comments below!

Vanessa: Let's start this off on the right foot...Why do you, Jones, Jaimita and Kiera, love radio?
Jones: What other medium puts you right smack in the middle of a story, lets you see and hear and imagine and experience it, without actually showing you a single picture?… Plus, radio is fun and relatively inexpensive to make, it’s also compelling, honest, and interesting. A good radio story can change your life.

Kiera: I'm finishing college right now, and I find that radio has led me to all kinds of new interests. There’s a quote from Gwen Macsai that sums up my feelings well. She hosts Re: Sound — a terrific show on Chicago Public Radio. On a DIY radio site called Transom, she writes, “Radio is my first love and like a first love, no matter how far you stray and no matter how badly it ended, your heart still skips a beat when it walks through the door.” Isn’t that great?

Third Coast has a yearly radio conference and competition. You can sample some of the emerging talent on their website.
Transom is a website where radiophiles and podcasters gather to talk shop.

Jaimita: Wow… why do I love radio? It’s different... It’s a different type of connection – radio forces you to listen, it forces you to think about what you’re hearing and actually see it in your mind and feel what you’re hearing…After all these years, people still come up to me and say, “I really appreciate your story.” I want to say, “That was 6 years ago!”

The Kitchen Sisters produce radio documentaries — and they have this way of choosing the most amazing, unexpected topics. Give Hidden Kitchens a listen.

Vanessa: Jones, Can you introduce yourself and explain what PRX and GenerationPRX are, for those who don't already know? What is the relationship between Radio Rookies, YouthCast podcast and GenerationPRX?

Jones: The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is kind of like Etsy for radio — it’s an online marketplace for distribution, review and broadcast of public radio programs. It’s also a social network of producers, stations and listeners collaborating to reshape public airwaves. GenerationPRX takes these tools and dedicates them to supporting, connecting and distributing youth-produced radio. We work with over 50 youth radio groups (including Radio Rookies) and hundreds of teens and teachers who are making new, different and engaging radio, and we help get these heard. The YouthCast podcast is one way we help share some of this radio with a larger audience — it’s curated and hosted by the amazing Kiera (who also runs the YouthCast podcast), and goes out through alt.NPR.org This a long way of introducing myself as having a dream job! I’ve been the project Director of Generation PRX since it launched in 2004. (to get more detail on Generation PRX, please see read this).

Vanessa: Jaimita, Please introduce yourself. What is your background with the Radio Rookies program and how did you get involved? What was your experience with radio growing up?

Jaimita: I got started in radio when I was in high school... When I was in school, Czerina (Patel – former director of Radio Rookies) came to my journalism class. She came in to present, and when someone comes into present and you’re a teenager, you hear “blah blah blah.” I filled out the application, but it was real short, and Czerina said, “Fill it out more in depth.” I did, but I wasn’t accepted into the program at first — someone dropped out, and then she called me. At the time I was like “No, I wasn’t your first pick!” But my mother said to do it. The experience was crazy. I was the only black female that was in my group and the reason why I say this is that the people in my group and I ... never ever ever spoke before [we got involved in the program], but all the people who went into the program had a really good bond.

Growing up, the only thing with radio was music to me and 1010 WINS here and there, I never knew — NPR, what? It wasn’t brought up in my household, though music was very important to me. I was always listening to the radio, but if anybody told me I would have been into this when I was younger, I would have said “yeah right, sounds boring.”

Radio Rookies, a youth radio project based at WNYC since 1999, matches mentors to teens. Listen to the Radio Rookies pieces and read more about the project here.

Vanessa: Kiera, can you give us the low-down on the YouthCast? How did you get involved in radio? Can you tell us about how you came to KBOO Youth Collective, in Portland, Oregon?

Kiera: Each YouthCast podcast features just one example of all of the exciting work that’s bubbling out of the GenerationPRX hot springs. I like to say that YouthCast is a glimpse into the Magic 8 ball of radio’s future (and the outlook is good).

Like most “how I found the thing I really like to nerd out about” stories, I kind of stumbled into radio. As a freshman in college I went to an open house at Brown Student and Community Radio where I met a formidably talented producer named Kathleen Ross. We hit it off and started a humor show called Gladiators of Awesome. Kathleen was an alum of Blunt Youth Radio in Portland, Maine. Home in Portland, Oregon for summer break, I wanted to learn editing so I showed up at the KBOO Youth Collective’s weekly meeting and said, “Teach me!” The amazing Erin Yanke (youth advisor) basically replied, “Sure! This is how you edit sound. Go make whatever you want!”

The moral of the story is that community radio is a beautiful thing. You can learn production skills, plot collaborations, and, most importantly, have a space to produce for fun.

Radio Diaries does series (Prison Diaries, Teenage Diaries, AIDs Diary) where they give equipment to people who record their lives, and then Joe Richman, the producer, shapes the tape into documentary pieces. They also offer the incredibly useful Teen Reporter Handbook for free (and it's not just for teens!).

Vanessa: Jones, can you speak a bit about the GenPRX platform and its role as a marketplace? How do you see the internet changing the face of radio?

Jones: With the internet anyone can make audio stories — once you’ve got access to a computer, download Audacity, take a free online tutorial (like this one from Kiera) and boom! You are a podcaster. In the same way that Etsy showcases various items, GPRX curates audio to direct visitors and stations to pieces that match their interests, and users can rate and review pieces for others to see. The review function has multiples purposes — it lets users identify pieces, helps producers improve their work for air, and creates a conversation between makers of radio.

Download Audacity and get right to experimenting! Audacity is a free, open-source audio editing program. You can also record into your computer if you have a line in, or just use Skype to conduct interviews.

Vanessa: Jaimita, did you have a moment where you realized the impact radio had on your life? Or the impact your radio pieces had on others? Or was it a gradual thing, or a thing that always made sense to you?

Jaimita: Yes. One of the impacts radio had was that it separated me from everyone else in high school. I had a story where I had to bring my Marantz recorder into school — which was very embarrassing (they called it a karaoke machine) — but it set me apart and made me different before my story was even finished.

One of my friends actually listened to my story one time, and she looked and me and was like, “I never knew you felt that way.” The story was a way of communicating with another peer, even though she was close to me she didn’t know that I was upset.

StoryCorps is a project that enables everyday people to make a recording of an interview: it's like a radio oral history project for the Internet Age. The project sets up recording studios in places like Grand Central station or the public library in Nashville, and anyone can sign up, go in, and record an interview with a friend or family member. Find out more on the StoryCorps website and get their podcast here.

Vanessa: Any other suggestions for listening — especially shows that work with user-generated content or bring new voices to the airwaves and people's iPods?

Jones: Many many of the groups on GenerationPRX also have their own podcasts you can find through their websites, and you can always start your own. Vocalo.org is an exciting new project at WBEZ that’s working almost entirely with community-generated content. The internet has also opened up new ways to find radio personalities. Last year PRX ran the Public Radio Talent Quest, a hugely popular competition with an open call for submissions.

Kiera: Check out Tell Me More to see how new shows on NPR are starting to involve audiences in the production of the show, by blogging about upcoming shows and integrating audience input from comments.

See other articles in this Podcasting Series. Post your favorite radio shows and podcasts in the comments below!

Tchotchke Battle Audio Podcast

2008-02-25T19:10:00-05:00

Tchotchkes are those little things that have little or no practical value. Yet we need them and we love them and today they do battle.

I walked over to Danielle and Mary's desk and little did I know that I was walking onto a battlefield. These two awesome Etsy admins have impressive tchotchke collections and without any prompting a tchotchke battle erupted!

Listen to the podcast and learn who won!

Subscribe in iTunes and get all the Etsy podcasts downloaded automatically. If you'd like to just get the mp3, just right click and "save as" this tchotchke battle mp3.

Do you have what it takes to triumph on the tchotchke battlefield? Take a picture of your tchotchke or tchotchke collection and upload it to flickr. Tag it "Etsy tchotchke" and put it in the totchke challenge flickr group. There are no prizes... just tchotchke glory!

Audio Interview with Diana Sudyka

2007-10-05T09:04:00-05:00

I first met Diana Sudyka at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago when I was interviewing silk-screeners about artwork they had created for the bands at the event. Her hand-drawn posters immediately caught my eye and drew me in with their mysterious and eccentric characters. After learning that she was also illustrating a children's book (The Mysterious Benedict Society, a series following four orphans with special powers as they try to save the world from a miserable end), I was curious to learn how Sudyka juggles silk-screening, illustration and her own work. Click on the link below for an interview with Diana about how she started on her path as a professional artist and her process in creating off-beat worlds for children and adults alike.

Rokali's Ironing-board Chat (Podcast 1)

2007-09-28T16:11:00-05:00

Last week I posted in the forums, asking for questions about Etsy which I'd answer in a Podcast. Well, here is that Podcast. It's the first one I've done so there's not much fanfare or effects.

You can listen to the entire Podcast here:

Or you can listen to each segment below. I chose 3-5 questions for each the following six categories, plus an Intro and Outro:

Etsy as a Company

Etsy as a Marketplace

Etsy as a Website

Etsy as a Community

Etsy's Policy

Marketing and Etsy

If there are more questions you'd like answered, please post them in the comments here and I'll get them into the next podcast of my Ironing-board Chat.

Sew Useful Contest: Interviews with the Winners & OLPC

2007-09-26T08:35:00-05:00

This past summer, Etsy and Instructables held the Sew Useful Contest. It was a pretty intensive process to enter: contestants had to list a useful handmade item on Etsy and create an accompanying how-to on Instructables. The main thrust of the contest was to put your creativity and know-how forward for the greater good.

Etsy and Instructables also worked with OLPC (One Laptop per Child) to donate proceeds and how-tos. OLPC gives $100 laptops to children in developing countries and we had the chance to interview Lauren Klein who works for OLPC to collect education content for the machines. (Burdastyle is in the interview too, talking about an open-source sewing pattern for laptop cases!)

Following the Sew Useful Contest, Alison and I got in touch with the winners and interviewed them over the phone. What follows here are the stories behind their entries.

Turns out John, aka BlondietheBlond, entered the contest to impress a girl. Unfortunately it didn't work, but his Rain or Shine Solar Charger sure does! Listen:

La, aka caballera speaks about her motivation for sharing creative process behind the Fire skirt: bringing a little beauty into the world "Everyone should have a glow outfit." She actually got a marriage proposal from all the exposure she got from the contest. She politely declined. Listen:

Kerri, aka kerri9494, talks about her drive to make everyday, useful objects for her son. The Hearing aid drying pouch came out of his needs at summer swim camp. Listen:

donovanbeeson explains her compulsive paper-hoarding and her inspiration for the Envelope book. Listen:

Elli, abitabite links her motivation for making the Plushie Personal Boom-box / Goodnight Pillow back to when she was a kid. Her mother had to separate abitabite and the many foster kids they had growing up into two rooms: one for those who liked music while they fell asleep, and one for those who needed quiet. Listen:

Julia of pauljuliadesigns speaks about her drive to help elderly and share her Walker Bag designs with the world. Listen:

We also interviewed Darren of djlz about his Emergency Recordable Bag, which he decided to make after watching the confusion after Katrina. Many people lost their prescriptions, important phone numbers, etc, and the recording device would allow people (especially people who cannot write) to audio record a few quick messages as they weather a storm or disaster. The design ranked high in the voting. Listen:

We were also big fans of rabbitears27's Print Faux-co, her take on the Gocco printer, and wanted to find out how she figured out her design. Listen:

Big congrats again to the winners! We hope you are enjoying your sewing machines.

And congrats to my sister-in-law Kim, aka vanfan, whose entry ranked up at the top but was removed from the running for being a relation. She sold one of her Insulin Pump Garter Belts which are sew useful for diabetics! Oh, and she had a healthy baby girl, my new niece Ramona!

See the original announcement of the Sew Useful Contest winners. You can see all the entries still listed by searching with the tag sewuseful.

CraftyPod #29: Craftypreneur Roundup #1

2007-09-21T12:00:00-05:00

Sister Diane has graciously allowed us to syndicate some CraftyPods. More about CraftyPod, from Diane:

"CraftyPod is a bi-weekly podcast that’s all about making stuff. Sometimes it’s about project tutorials. Sometimes it’s an interview with someone craftily fascinating. Sometimes it’s the history behind your favorite craft supplies. Always, it’s a big, crafty geekfest.

CraftyPod is made by me, Sister Diane — aka Diane Gilleland. I’ve made things my whole life, and would gladly give up most household chores for an afternoon of serious crafting.

When I’m not crafting, I produce podcasts, and make zines, and write and blog about crafts, and organize a chapter of the Church of Craft.

I live in Portland, Oregon - the coolest city ever."

You can contact Diane at craftypod@deepideas.com.

Click here to listen:

About this podcast, CraftyPod #29: Craftypreneur Roundup #1

- The first in a quarterly series: The Craftypreneur Roundup.
- Interviews with four indie crafters who are making their own businesses.
- Interesting stories, great ideas, and inspiration for people who have entrepreneurial dreams.

Our Featured Craftypreneurs:

Button Arcade
Chicaloo Photography
Miss Misa
Glamscience

All of these crafty businesses are contributors to The Sampler.

Other Craftypreneur Links:

Crafty Synergy: a place about crafty women and their businesses

Make It: a blog for craft entrepreneurs

Betsy Greers Crafter Documentary project

http://www.craftypod.com/?p=35

Get it through iTunes

The Storque's flickr set