I Shop Indie

Submitted by MissMalaprop on March 17, 2011 - 9:00pm
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IShopIndie.com is brought to you by a collective of online independent artists, shop owners and crafters who want to increase awareness of online indie shopping.

IShopIndie.com was founded on the premise that advertising can be affordable when small businesses pool their resources. To that end IShopIndie.com enables designers to advertise with a bigger budget for less money by sharing the ad expenses. Members pay dues which create an advertising budget for the website.

What other benefits do members enjoy?

  • 12 of your products featured on I Shop Indie! 10 on category pages, 2 on the sale page and one product of your choice right on the homepage.
  • Free email marketing! We'll send your promotions to our newsletters free of charge. We send our monthly newsletter to over 3,500 opt-in subscribers.
  • Real time performance data! Know exactly how many click-thoughs your products receive up to the minute.
  • Real time account management! Change your featured products any time you want. You have the control through your account management tool.

IShopIndie.com has advertised on high traffic sites like Perez Hilton, I Can Has Cheezeburger, Dlisted.com, Design*Sponge, Cute Overload, Creature Comforts, etc, which all send traffic back to the individual co-op member sites.
 

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Worth Every Penny!

Submitted by MissMalaprop on March 18, 2011 - 3:00am
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I joined I Shop Indie before the 2010 holiday season to advertise my online shop, which had just launched earlier that year. I Shop Indie ended up being my biggest source of traffic, other than my own blog or Google, for most of that time period, and I had definite sales come from it.

I've found it to be a very effective advertising tool - because indie businesses are pooling their money to advertise the I Shop Indie site (and in turn, their own sites - product images & descriptions on I Shop Indie go directly back to the product pages of your own site), we can advertise on much higher traffic sites than we could afford to otherwise.

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