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Crafting with Social Media and the Customer

Posted by RJ Laskin on

Crafting with Social Media and the Customer

Some of our best selling products have evolved through suggestions from our customers and social media which is why I always recommend that every boutique crafter listen very closely to suggestions from shop visitors and become and active participant in their sharing sites. Social media is not just a tool for improving Domain Authority, Trust, or plastering products on a wall with the hopes shoppers flood your store. Instead social media should become a learning experience with two way communication and human to human interaction. Cyberspace is an extension of your three-dimensional world rather than an abstract addition. Having been...

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The Holiday Rush has Started

Posted by RJ Laskin on

The Holiday Rush has Started

Usually the holiday rush starts the Friday after Thanksgiving around midday and wave upon wave of orders leave us buried for those 4 weeks heading into Christmas and New Years. Much like trying to shovel snow in blizzard with a soup spoon, trying to get ahead is impossible, however we manage to keep up with short nights and long day. This year, the holiday rush started on Saturday the 19th, before I even had a spare moment to list our Christmas items. This year we are adding a few handmade Christmas Tree ornaments in limited quantities: a merry Christmas Bronze...

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Silver Thumbs - The making of our new sterling silver thumb pick

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Silver Thumbs - The making of our new sterling silver thumb pick

To complete our new thumb pick collection, we are happy to list our sterling silver version of our latest thumb pick in Nici's Picks : Unlike our classic guitar picks which are pressed one at a time from the various metals using a handmade custom pancake die, these new thumb picks take handmade to entirely new dimension as they are sawed one at a time using a fine fret saw. While handmade guitar picks really hype up the crowd, the 52 tpi saw blade creates a rather rough edge that needs considerable filing by hand in order to actually be...

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Nici's Picks Markets to your Thumbs

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Nici's Picks Markets to your Thumbs

With our Nici's Picks site ready to celebrate its first Birthday, we have decided to expand the line-up to include: more guitar pick jewelry, slides, and thumb picks. Our first thumb pick: You Rock My World Bronze Thumb Pick with Music Note rocks out in bronze and features both a music note and you rock my world. For the guitar pick, we decided on 3/4 in by 3/4 in and 20 gauge bronze to offer the best flexibility as well as allowing for easy adjustment of the band. The second pick in the new collection is the classic: I Pick...

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