Folks, please welcome Tina Seamonster from Hello Craft to the MailChimp blog! She’ll be guest blogging here from time to time, posting helpful articles on how handmade artists can market their work more effectively (also see mailchimp.com/handmade)…
I recently invited Maria Thomas, Etsy.com‘s CEO to give a speech to the attendees at Hello Craft‘s first annual Summit of Awesome in Washington, D.C. The Summit of Awesome is a conference where crafters and artists get to spend the weekend meeting, learning and making. When I asked Maria to address the group, I sent her many questions, but the main question that we were hoping she would answer was really very basic. Why Handmade? Why now? Maria’s answer was actually simple and one that I think we all should consider in our endeavors to make a living making things…