Monthly Archives: February 2014

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Using Facebook as a tool

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Use Facebook to help you sell

While you are starting up your craft business you are likely to have a small budget, which you need to use mainly to buy supplies and equipment.

You can set up a Facebook business or community pages as a free way to promote your products.

You can use your business name and it can help you increase the amount of exposure you get for your products.

Facebook is:

  • one of the largest social networks, with more than 750 million
  • it gives you access to a large audience of users, who can check out your pages and products at home, at work and even on-the-go
  • you can upload pictures of your products and display them on your walls and in online photo albums
  • it is good to interact with the people who like your page, ask their advice on colours or designs, it makes them think that they can have a say.There is more chance that they will buy from you if you make them feel like a friend.

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Networking

A craft fair is a good place to sell your products and meet new people
A craft fair is a good place to sell your products and meet new people

A craft fair is a good place to sell your products and meet new people

Now that your business has started and you have sold a few things, unless you have found a golden egg the hard work still continues. In other words you have to work hard to keep getting the sales figures you need and want.

It is important that you keep the momentum going and not get complacent, if you don’t keep promoting, the orders will dry up.

If you use the internet keep your website updated, sell your products on eBay, Etsy and as many other sites as you can. Keep ‘chatting’ with your followers on Facebook, and offer incentives, discounts or give-aways. Be prepared to vary your products if the customer is wanting something slightly different.

Another good way of getting your products known is by attending craft fairs, there are many around, and a lot of them will be very local. Check out your local papers, schools and church halls.

If it is your first craft fair it can be a daunting experience.  How much stock do you take?  How do you display your products?  How do you price them? What else do you need to take? Well the Crafty Network have some good tips and advice!

Good luck and enjoying building up your business!
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Can futsal help develop footballing skills?

futsalimA lot of people already play traditional football, but if you have an interest in football why not try Futsal?

It may help you develop traditional footballing skills.

When looking at the key things that make up futsal, there is a link to how these things can transfer over to traditional football.

The most important skill that can be transferred is the technical ability that futsal gives players. The fact there is only 5 players on a team means that a shorter passing style of play is implemented. Players need to be constantly moving and creating space for technical, intricate passes to be played which promotes a ‘Tiki-taka’ style of play. This is a style of play were possession of the ball is the main tactic and teams use it so their opponents get minimal chances to score. It is proven to be successful when it is used in 11-a-side football. Both FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team heavily use this style of play and are hugely successful with Spain winning the last 3 major football tournament and Barcelona winning many Spanish league titles and domestic cups.

Sometimes there may not be the space to pass the ball into though and when this happens players tend to go 1 on 1 with their defenders using skills and ball control to dribble around them. This can be a huge help to attack minded players because if they are very skilful it will help when they play on a bigger pitch because they have more space to beat their man and in turn create chances for their team. Some of the greatest players in traditional football history have been highly skilful players such as Lionel Messi, Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona.

Obviously not every skill used in Futsal will help traditional football teams be successful because different rules in the sports don’t allow some things to transfer well, but the landscape of football is changing and more technically gifted teams are becoming successful and THIS is an area where Futsal can help.

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