To YouTube and Beyond!!!
Do you YouTube? If not, it is a great way to promote your business or a great place to show off your DIY projects. Do you know how to add the little share buttons at the bottom of the posts here on Blogger? You can make a video about how to do that and it will get tons of views and likes. From there you can just keep adding more videos and the next thing you know you are popular and go viral.
I had no idea what I needed to do other than have a web cam or camcorder. I first googled "How to make a video on YouTube with your laptop". There was a great YouTube video done that showed exactly how to get started. It did take a little time for me to figure out how to upload it and find it in my documents file. But, after that little research I was 'live' on YouTube!
I've made two videos so far. One is about my website, Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op and our sampler bag. The second one is about one of my mixed media art journals. It is so much nicer to see a product on live video than just seeing it in a picture. YouTube even has their own fix-it features built right into the program. So, if you are a little shaky there is a fix-it button for that! If the lighting is not bright enough there is a fix-it button for that.
And, the cool thing is it tells you these issues so you can just hit the button and in a flash your video is now close to perfect. Of course, being an amateur at this means that your first few videos will be like a "B" movie. But, that's okay. It is fun to tweak your location and gain confidence in yourself and then over time your videos will improve and it will show.
Here are my first two that I made. Check them out and please 'like' them and subscribe!
Mixed Media Art Journal
Eco-Gift Sampler Bag
If you've already made a DIY video on YouTube please share it here in the comments section. I'd like to stop by and 'like' it for you. Stay tuned for more of my fun videos coming to my channel real soon!
Thanks,
Marsha
Today is Blog posting day for the Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op Team! Happy Thursday!!!
I'm going to share a preview with you today of a new and exciting program we are launching in January 2013 on our website. You may be familiar with us or you may not be, yet! I hope after reading this post that you will be curious enough to head on over and check us out.
There are not very many people who can be thought of in today's handmade market that truly are giving a helping hand at no cost to others. I'm speaking of a great website called Mary Jane's Farm forum. It is a free forum where you can barter, swap, sell anything. Plus, you can share your ups and downs of family life and business life and someone will listen and have a word of encouragement or excitement in return.
I've been to several other Mom forums and Mary Jane's Farm is the only one that I have had success on. Why? Because, it is a group of like minded women who truly care about other women. I'm not saying that the other forum's don't have women who truly care about other women. But, that for me personally I have not found the same warm and caring environment elsewhere.
That is until I started my own website based on that kind of warm and caring attitude. You can really make friends with the women who are a part of my website, just like I did on Mary Jane's website. I hold weekly classes in our private Facebook group where we share marketing strategies, promotion ideas and a word of support along the way.
We work together as a team, not against each other behind someone's back. This is a real gift if you can find it in yourself to give for the good of the group. If this is you, then we'd like to invite you to share your gift with us.
At the present time we are promoting our (click here>>>>>) Eco-Gift Sampler Bag. It is filled with 14 wonderful handmade gifts and direct sells samples. All in one cute bundle for just shipping and handling!
In Our Handmade Gift Sampler bag there are two direct sells products. One is from Watkins Naturals and the other is from Thirty-One Gifts. You'll have to buy a bag to find out what the other 12 full size handmade gifts are. I can promise you that you won't be disappointed.
I promised you a preview of our new program coming in January 2013. Here is a picture of one of the seller's item. See if you can figure out what it might be about from the picture.
I'll give you another clue in November and in December I'll make the big announcement. And, give you a sneak peak at other seller's products from my website that are participating in this new and exciting adventure with me.
Don't forget to visit our website and pick up you Eco-Gift Sampler Bag today!
Have a Sunshine Day!
Marsha
How many places have you found in your search on the web that offer free samples of their handmade products? They will laugh you right off the page!!! If they do give a sample you might need a microscope to see it once it arrives in the mail!!!
That is not the case at Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op you'll find that you can buy full size handmade gifts and direct sales products for just the cost of shipping and handling! And, you don't just get one product you get over 10 full size products in their Eco-Gift Sampler bags!!!
This is what came in the July Summer & Family bag! If you didn't get one you may still be able to by visiting the website at: Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op!
1. Sunshine Sister's offered a free bookmark
2. Country Cents offered a free reusable cosmetic wipe
3. Reflections of Kayla offered a free hand drawn note card
4. Jeanpatch by MK offered a free crochet dishcloth
5. Vintage 50s Treasures offered a free vintage fabric gift tag
6. Kallie's Cotton offered a free fabric coaster
7. CJW Design Village offered a free daisy hair pin
8. Dolly Madison offered a free clay button
9. Pages of Ages offered a free vintage paper art work
10. Printed Words of Wisdom offered a free French mini journal
11. Creative Designs by Della offered a free mini scrapbook
12. Creative Craft Supplies offered a free Thank you stamp
Plus, a free Watkins Natural Products!
Their next Eco-Gift Sampler Bag is now on sale and has a fun Tea party theme! It is chock full of wonderful and adorable handmade and direct sales products that will delight you! Fourteen in all!
Here are the shops you'll find in the bag:
1. Country Cents
2. Jeanpatchbymk
3. Reflections of Kayla
4. Vintage 50s Treasures
5. Wood Stream Dream
6. Wood Stream Papery
7. Kallie's Cotton
8. CJW Design Village
9. Pages of Ages
10. Wee Princess
11. DLA Bead Design
12. Creative Designs by Della
13. Thirty-One Gifts
14. Watkins Natural Products
If you are a fan of the Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op and love their Eco-Gift Sampler Bags then we'd like to hear from you. Leave a comment and tell us what you like best about these free gifts!
Have a Sunshiny Day!
This post is a product review of my website's Eco-Gift Sampler Box for April 2012. I do a handmade sampler box 4 to 5 times a year with a different theme. In April I presented a Spring themed box of handmade gifts from members of my Sunshine Farm Girl Co-op website.
Here is what was in the box.
Reflections of Kayla - original artwork drawings made into note cards.
Country Cents - One-of-a-kind sewing creations. A lovely mug rug or snack mat.
On the left is a adorable handmade fabric tissue holder for your purse or office. Made by Sunshine Sisters where you'll find more great designer fabric custom made housewares.
Finally, there was a handmade product by Jeanpatch by MK. My very own sustainable shop and I specialize in altered vintage books, journals, weekly planners and greeting cards just to name a few. I made a drawstring bag out of beautiful bird and butterfly fabric.
Our July Eco-Gift Sampler Box is filled with 12 handmade gifts with the fun Summer & Family theme. You can have your own surprise party when you open the box and take out each adorable item. The hard part will be if you want to give some away or keep them all for yourself!
Order one for you and a friend on our website, click here. As soon as they are all sold I will do a product review for each of the 12 shops that are in the box.
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter on the home page of my website at the above link. You'll keep updated on all the co-op happenings and get to meet each of our 140 shops of our Etsy team each week.
Here is a sneak peek of the July Eco-Gift Sampler Box!
