
I can do no better than to quote the words of Cori herself:
The Indie Craft Wall, IndieCraftWall.com is a site made out of frustration over the lack of affordable advertising for Indie Crafters. The idea is...everyone who buys an inexpensive ad block on IndieCraftWall.com then puts a link to the site on their blog or Myspace page... thus creating lots of crafty traffic.
It is super easy to use. You visit IndieCraftWall.com, click on a block, and instructions appear! The hardest part is making sure that the image you upload is 4x4 inches and 72 pixels. Anything smaller is too blurry.
Cori Crooks, a crafter and author of the art memoir "Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake", came up with the idea about 2 months ago. She wanted an inexpensive way for Indie Crafters like herself to promote their shops. The ad space is $10 for 4 whole months -- that's only $2.50 a month! A great deal!
Indie Craft Wall benefits both buyers and sellers. Buyers can come to a web site that links artists directly. No supplies or antique stores -- just lots of nice photos of handmade goodness! In return sellers won't be charged crazy rates trying to get traffic to their store.
What's also great about IndieCraftWall.com is the dedicated page that lists the clicks each artist gets! You are able to keep track of how many times someone who visited the wall went to your store! It's totally cool! Traffic is also driven to the site through links, site registries, Myspace gorilla marketing, and yapping about it!!! The number one rule about IndieCraftWall.com is: Talk about IndieCraftWall.com!
You can see my ad there in the lower left -- the cool thing is, if you hover over an ad at the site itself, you get to see the larger version. And it really is very affordable. Head on over to IndieCraftWall.com and check it out for yourself!

