What a week!

Wow!  We have had an awesome start to September and are very grateful that people didn't forget about us during the Summer Break! We are now looking ahead into the Autumn and booking is now open until the end of October. Facebook has been amazing with all your likes, shares and comments pushing our reach right out to almost 40K! Amazing! Lots of people reporting sales, commissions and it has a wonderful vibrancy that people are loving! Our new Twitter Promotions have been a massive hit with much success for shops that have taken part so far.  Not only are people picking up good commissions and sales but they are increasing their following and potential customer base for the future. Our Twitter following is currently at 17.5K which is very exciting!  Rachel Elliot from Rachel Elliot Glassworks booked Twitter 140 for last week and shared this with us... "Cannot recommend this enough, did this promo this last week as a bit of an experiment  and great results for me including sales and commissions. Paid for itself on day 1!" A great recommend indeed! Here is a quick breakdown of the different Promotions you can book! Twitter Boost This is available to book on a daily basis and over a 24 hour period you will receive a total of 20 tweets with up to 4 unique links of your choice.  These can be to your shop, a particular item, your fb page or your blog. 5 of these tweets will have photos attached to them for greater exposure on Twitter. In addition your @twittername will be used so that your account will gain exposure leading to more followers for you. After booking you must email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your choice of date and your 4 links. Twitter 1402 This is available to book on a weekly basis.  Over 7 consecutive days (Mon - Sun) you will get 140 Tweets - 20 a day in each 24 hour period. You get to choose 10 unique links of your choice.  These can be to your shop, a particular item, your fb page or your blog. 5 of these tweets a day will have photos attached to them for greater exposure on Twitter. In addition your @twittername will be used in some of the tweets so that your account will gain exposure leading to more followers for you. After booking you must email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your choice of date and your 10 links. Traditional Promotion What you get for this is a. A Featured Spot on Facebook with a shop link to your item and an uploaded photo plus a link to your fb page. (Bringing you new likes to your fb page too!) b. 3 tweets to your featured item using #britcraftplus c. Pinned to the Featured Shops Pinterest Board for that month. (promoted all month) d. A Stumbleupon Review for your item. For people that haven't yet booked with us here is a guide for you! 1.  Have a look at the upcoming themes on the drop down menus to see which of your items fit into which themed category. 2.  Decide on whether you want to book a single day or book for 5 days which saves you 20%. 3.  Purchase your chosen day or block of days from the drop down menu. The price is £2.50 for a day or £10 for 5 days. 4.  Email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your item link/links for promotion. If you have booked for 5 days then you need to send 5 links. 5.  Links must be received by 6pm please on the day before you wish to be shared. 6.  Shop links work better than FB links as you can't Pin to Pinterest from FB.  If however you only sell from a Facebook page then we will work extra hard to promote your facebook page on both Facebook and Twitter. 7.  As soon as your shop link is received you will be pinned to the Featured Shops Pin board and your promotion starts. 8.  Sit back and let us do the hard work for you! Below are the links to book slots.    If you want to book additional boosting Twitter promotion - select from the promotion options available.  Use this independently as promotion or in conjunction with our Traditional promotion. Of course we will continue to work our FB page as before with a good number of free shares and in order to keep the wonderful dynamic of the page we will continue to do free shares with fb only links and will also limit the number  of paid slots available each day.  Once that number is achieved it will be marked on the drop down menu as "sold out" Our Twitter promotions will also be limited in number as we value our followers and don't want them to switch us off if we are tweeting promotions too much!  We want to keep them all so that they will spend money in your shops! We look forward to promoting your shops, especially as people start to think about Christmas shopping! Dottie x Twitter One Day Boost

Twitter One Day Boost £2.50 GBP

Twitter 140 Promotion

13/10 - 19/10 £10.00 GBP 20/10 - 26/10 £10.00 GBP

   

Traditional Promotion 13/10 - 17/10

13/10 Halloween Gift Guide £2.50 GBP 14/10 Open Day £2.50 GBP 15/10 Sparkly and Shiny £2.50 GBP 16/10 Blues or Greys £2.50 GBP 17/10 Rainbow Colours £2.50 GBP All Week - 10% discount £10.00 GBP

Traditional Promotion 20/10 - 24/10

20/10 - Metallic colours £2.50 GBP 21/10 - Purple or Green £2.50 GBP 22/10 - Open Day £2.50 GBP 23/10 - Birds, Bees or Butterflies £2.50 GBP 24/10 - Multi Coloured £2.50 GBP All week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Any 5 days in Any Week 20% discount

Any 5 days in Any Week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

We're back!

Bring out the bunting!  We are back!  Rested, revived and ready for lots of fun, promotion, networking & cake as we head into the Autumn! 

We hope that you have all had a super Summer!

Behind the scenes we have been busy with the imminent publication of our 2nd Newsletter and working on our Showcase Magazine that we hope to share with you really soon!  It's going to be good!

We have also been working on how we can extend the fabulous promotions on FB that work so well onto Twitter.  We have come up with some great Twitter packages that we hope you will like!

There is the 1 day Twitter Boost package, perfect if you are wanting to showcase a new item or have news to spread.  

There is also now a 7 day package Twitter 140²  that  will get you out there far and wide.  This runs over 7 consecutive days for maximum effect.

Smaller businesses everywhere use Twitter to connect with existing and new customers. It’s a quick, easy way to share, promote and drive word-of-mouth communication about your business.

Whether you’re new to Twitter or a seasoned expert, we’ve got what you need to help you reach your goals. With almost 17K followers we are in a unique position to help you to connect with potential customers whilst increasing your own profile on Twitter.

There are 2 exciting new options open and available to you to book....

The first is Twitter Boost

This is available to book on a daily basis and over a 24 hour period you will receive a total of 20 tweets with up to 4 unique links of your choice.  These can be to your shop, a particular item, your fb page or your blog. 5 of these tweets will have photos attached to them for greater exposure on Twitter. In addition your @twittername will be used so that your account will gain exposure leading to more followers for you. After booking you must email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your choice of date and your 4 links.

The second option is Twitter 140²

This is available to book on a weekly basis.  Over 7 consecutive days (Mon - Sun) you will get 140 Tweets - 20 a day in each 24 hour period. You get to choose 10 unique links of your choice.  These can be to your shop, a particular item, your fb page or your blog. 5 of these tweets a day will have photos attached to them for greater exposure on Twitter. In addition your @twittername will be used in some of the tweets so that your account will gain exposure leading to more followers for you. After booking you must email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your choice of date and your 10 links.

If you don't have Twitter then you can still use our Twitter Promotional Services as essentially it will drive people to your shop.

In the future we do plan to have Twitter Start Up packages that will be available to book where we will guide you from the setting up of your account, help you with your first tweets and explain how to get a Twitter account that really works for you!  More details to follow on this....soon!

Traditional Promotion

This works brilliantly and is what we have been offering for almost a year now. The our customers have been very pleased with increased traffic/sales and most go on to rebook with us :)

What you get for this is

a. A Featured Spot on Facebook with a shop link to your item and an uploaded photo plus a link to your fb page. (Bringing you new likes to your fb page too!)

b. 3 tweets to your featured item using #britcraftplus

c. Pinned to the Featured Shops Pinterest Board for that month. (promoted all month)

d. A Stumbleupon Review for your item.

For people that haven't yet booked with us here is a guide for you!



1.  Have a look at the upcoming themes on the drop down menus to see which of your items fit into which themed category.


2.  Decide on whether you want to book a single day or book for 5 days which saves you 20%.


3.  Purchase your chosen day or block of days from the drop down menu. The price is £2.50 for a day or £10 for 5 days.


4.  Email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your item link/links for promotion. If you have booked for 5 days then you need to send 5 links.


5.  Links must be received by 6pm please on the day before you wish to be shared.


6.  Shop links work better than FB links as you can't Pin to Pinterest from FB.  If however you only sell from a Facebook page then we will work extra hard to promote your facebook page on both Facebook and Twitter.

7.  As soon as your shop link is received you will be pinned to the Featured Shops Pin board and your promotion starts.


8.  Sit back and let us do the hard work for you!

 Below are the links to book slots.
  

If you want to book additional boosting Twitter promotion - select from the promotion options available.  Use this independently as promotion or in conjunction with our Traditional promotion.

Of course we will continue to work our FB page as before with a good number of free shares and in order to keep the wonderful dynamic of the page we will continue to do free shares with fb only links and will also limit the number  of paid slots available each day.  Once that number is achieved it will be marked on the drop down menu as "sold out"

Our Twitter promotions will also be limited in number as we value our followers and don't want them to switch us off if we are tweeting promotions too much!  We want to keep them all so that they will spend money in your shops!

Here's to an exciting September and beyond!

Dottie x

Twitter Boost
Twitter 1 day promotion - £2.50

Twitter 1402 Twitter 7 day promotion (20% discount)

1/9 to 7/9 Fully Booked 8/9 - 14/9 Fully Booked 22/9 - 28/9 £10.00 GBP

Traditional Promotion 8/9 - 12/9 Fully Booked all week

Traditional Promotion 15/9 - 19/9

15/9 Greens and creams £2.50 GBP 16/9 Open Day £2.50 GBP 17/9 Spots, Stripes, Checks £2.50 GBP 18/9 Nature Inspired £2.50 GBP 19/9 Pink & Black £2.50 GBP All week - 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Traditional Promotion 22/9 - 26/9

22/9 All things girlie £2.50 GBP 23/9 Autumnal Colours £2.50 GBP 24/9 Best Sellers £2.50 GBP 25/9 Pink & Blue £2.50 GBP 26/9 Open Day £2.50 GBP All week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

5 days Promotion - any day, any week 20% discount

5 days Promotion - any day, any week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Summer Days are Happy Days

Well it certainly seems like Summer has arrived in the South of England with lovely hot days like they used to be in the memories of my childhood!

We have had an exciting Summer so far and have continued to grow and thrive this term, this is especially true on Facebook where despite Mr FB best efforts to hide everyone, your liking, sharing and commenting keeps the reach of the page high and sales have been incredible!  We are nearly at 12K likers which is very exciting and certainly a cause for celebration! (not that we need an excuse!)

Twitter has been fabulous for us too with in excess of 15K followers, many like minded who retweet to push your work our further and further!  We plan to offer a form of Twitter promotion to purchase in the early autumn - watch this space! We will also be having a weekly #britcraft hour (timings tbc) where people can network and benefit from our hug following!

We launched a Newsletter, with the First Edition being published last weekend. Very exciting and a great way to keep you up to date with all the latest goings on and there will also be some special offers!  You can subscribe at the top of the Newsletter if you want to get Edition 2 pinging into your Inbox in August!

Our Promotion prices have risen slightly to £2.50 for a day or £10 for 5 days.  For this you do get a lot for your money!  You are pinned to our Pinterest board for that month (which is promoted all month) you are tweeted on multiple occasions, you are showcased on FB with a photo, shop link and @fb name and you receive a Stumble Upon Review!

Our themes for September and booking forms are now open!

For people that haven't yet booked with us here is a guide for you!



1.  Have a look at the upcoming themes to see which of your items fit into which themed category.


2.  Decide on whether you want to book a single day or book for 5 days which saves  you 20%.


3.  Purchase your chosen day or block of days from the drop down menu. The price is £2.50 for a day or £10 for 5 days.


4.  Email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your item link for promotion. If you have booked for 5 days then you need to send 5 links.


5.  Links must be received by 6pm please on the day before you wish to be shared.


6.  Shop links work better than FB links as you can't Pin to Pinterest from FB.  If however you only sell from a Facebook page then we will work extra hard to promote your facebook page on both Facebook and Twitter.

7.  As soon as your shop link is received you will be pinned to the Featured Shops Pin board and your promotion starts.


8.  Sit back and let us do the hard work for you!

 Below are the links to book slots.  

To keep the wonderful dynamic of the page we will continue to do free shares with fb only links and will also limit the number  of paid slots available each day.  Once that number is achieved it will be marked on the drop down menu as "sold out"

Finally we are taking a Summer Break from today until 1/9 to recharge our batteries and ensure that we return full of energy and ready for what is undoubtedly going to be a busy Autumn!

Wishing you a safe and happy summer!

Dottie x

Promotion 1/9 - 5/9

1/9 What's New! / Open Day £2.50 GBP 2/9 Blues £2.50 GBP 3/9 Birds & Butterflies £2.50 GBP 4/9 Bright Colours £2.50 GBP 5/9 Seaside/Beach £2.50 GBP All week - 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Promotion 8/9 - 12/9

8/9 Summer Sale £2.50 GBP 9/9 Flowers and hearts £2.50 GBP 10/9 Open Day £2.50 GBP 11/9 Pastels £2.50 GBP 12/9 September Wedding £2.50 GBP All week - 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Promotion 15/9 - 19/9

15/9 Greens and creams £2.50 GBP 16/9 Open Day £2.50 GBP 17/9 Spots, Stripes, Checks £2.50 GBP 18/9 Nature Inspired £2.50 GBP 19/9 Pink & Black £2.50 GBP All week - 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Promotion 22/9 - 26/9

22/9 All things girlie £2.50 GBP 23/9 Autumnal Colours £2.50 GBP 24/9 Best Sellers £2.50 GBP 25/9 Pink & Blue £2.50 GBP 26/9 Open Day £2.50 GBP All week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

5 days Promotion - any day, any week 20% discount

5 days Promotion - any day, any week 20% discount £10.00 GBP

Summer's On It's Way! (Honest!)

It does feel as if we were teased a little with the sun and now it has vanished!  Hopefully it will be back with us very soon! We have had an exciting few weeks at British Crafters and are very pleased that we broke through 10000 likers on Facebook!  We are also at over 13000 followers on Twitter which means that your work is being spread and promoted further than ever before! We are planning a Gala Charity Evening very soon to celebrate, hopefully the details will be finalised in the next week or so. Sales have been high from the fb page and we are also generating some sales for Featured Shops from our Pinterest Boards via Twitter!  This is very exciting and long may it continue! Themes are announced now up to the end of July with lots of your suggestions making it onto the themed day list!  There is a lovely selection and should be something for everyone! Days do fill up fast, our Father's Day Gift Guide for 2/6 has only a couple of spaces left now - a good one to book as you get pinned to the June Pinterest Board and also the British Crafters Father's Day Gift Guide :) For people that haven't yet booked with us here is a guide for you! 1.  Have a look at the upcoming themes to see which of your items fit into which themed category. 2.  Decide on whether you want to book a single day or book for 5 days which saves  you 20%. 3.  Purchase your chosen day or block of days from the drop down menu. The price is £2 for a day or £8 for 5 days. 4.  Email britishcrafters@gmail.com with your item link for promotion. If you have booked for 5 days then you need to send 5 links. 5.  Links must be received by 9pm please on the day before you wish to be shared. 6.  Shop links work better than FB links as you can't Pin to Pinterest from FB.  If however you only sell from a Facebook page then we will work extra hard to promote your facebook page on both Facebook and Twitter. 7.  As soon as your shop link is received you will be pinned to the Featured Shops Pin board and your promotion starts. 8.  Sit back and let us do the hard work for you! Below are the links to book slots.   To keep the wonderful dynamic of the page we will continue to do free shares with fb only links and will also limit the number  of paid slots available each day.  Once that number is achieved it will be marked on the drop down menu as "sold out" Here's to a fabulous summer of sales, networking, cake and of course cocktails! Dottie x

Promotion 21/7 - 25/7

21/7 Woodland £2.00 GBP 22/7 Anything that flies! £2.00 GBP 23/7 What's New £2.00 GBP 24/7 Best Sellers £2.00 GBP 25/7 Summer Party £2.00 GBP All week - 20% discount £8.00 GBP

Any 5 days in Any Week 20% discount

Any 5 days in Any Week 20% discount £8.00 GBP