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The Steady Hand Blog strongly supports and promotes handmade and indie businesses. Handmade shops and Etsy Treasuries are featured weekly!

Find family friendly product reviews, giveaways and posts on crochet and sewing including free patterns and tutorials. You will also find information about local DFW events, nationwide craft and blogging events too!

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Etsy has made it easier for seller to connect with their fans and followers right from their shop.  Now sellers have the option to add a Facebook like and Twitter follow button right under their banner.  Setting these buttons up is simple.

Connecting your Etsy shop with Facebook and Twitter is only one piece to the social media puzzle.  Below you will find a list of resources from Handmadeology. read more

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Art Fire Studio for Pale Moon Creations, handmade jewelry. 

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This week in link love the main focus is on marketing your business. There were a lot of great articles last week about marketing and using social media to market your business.

Creating a marketing plan, improving your sales pitch, hosting giveaways, and using Facebook and Twitter to market yourself are all topics which are covered in this week's edition of link love!

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Let’s take a look at some of the best articles from last week, all hand picked to help you run a more successful craft business!

You know full well I can’t resist sharing a good article from Scoutie Girl when I read one, and last week there was a great post about crafting spacious goals. I know I have talked a lot about goal setting the last several weeks, and Scoutie Girl, as always, has been able to say a bit of what I can’t always put into words. Read this article to learn how to set goals that work for you instead of against you, and even download a free “spacious goals” worksheet right from the article. read more

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This group is intended to bring together the tremendous artistic talent of the Niagara Region. The goal is to bring together artists of all genres, crafters of all things, and promote each other. It's an opportunity to network and share ideas, news of events, and so on.

If you're an artist, or an someone who appreciates the art created by the residents (or past residents!) of Niagara, please join and spread the word. Post your links, art related events, and whatever else related to art!

Originally posted on Meylah by Justine Smith on June 1, 2010.

When people realized that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook weren't just a fad, and started hopping on them to build their businesses, a few things went awry. That's right, I said it. Lots of people – myself included – make social media mistakes. And when you don't realize what you're doing wrong, it can affect your business.

Here are the 5 social media mistakes you're probably making and, of course, what you can do about them.
Mistake 1. Not Taking Part read more

Originally posted on Techipedia on May 5, 2010 by Tamar Weinberg read more

Brizzly is a reader that works with Twitter and Facebook. It simplifies your browsing and updating experience, while adding a few nifty extras. We'll take some of the work out of keeping up to date with the people, trends and news you want to know about.