By cecille.l
CreateForLess.com has all the crafting supplies you need for your scrapbooking. sewing, quilting, and beading projects. Ir has a section for kid’s crafts, too. Prices range from a few dollars to about $20 or so.
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This is another suggestion from fellow Affilorama staff, Melissa. She is definitely on a roll, and having gone through the research for this niche, spot on in suggesting this niche. The handicrafts niche is timely, trending, and full of money-making potential. Why I hadn’t thought of doing a Niche of the Week on handicraft affiliate programs escapes me.
Meh. Just probably didn’t think anyone would make money off recommending a website to buy quilting patterns and such from.
Well, this should teach me not to underestimate any niche — because you can make money telling people where to buy craft supplies online.
I have a whole slew of statistics and numbers to show you. Let’s start with the 2012 State of the Craft Industry report by the Craft & Hobby Association:
72% of crafters are women.
Their median age is between 35 and 44.
42% have children.
Nearly half of crafters (47%) have 10 years of experience or more.
It makes sense, it really does. Just think of the rise of Etsy — a place for people to sell their handcrafted clothing, home decor, and art. (It’s also a marketplace for craft supplies). There are more than 20 million users on the site and 1.4 million active sellers. And the social media network Pinterest (think of it as a digital corkboard for design inspiration, craft tutorials, infographics, recipes and more) is huge, too, with its membership expected to hit 47 million people this year.
Plus, there has been a steady increase in fabric, craft and sewing supplies stores since 2008. According to Statista, the industry is now worth USD $4 billion.
I could go on and on, but I’ll let MisterArt.com sum it all up as to why the craft supplies niche is worth putting up a site for:
Craft Keywords
You’ll need to be creative to find good keywords to target in the craft supplies niche. There’s a good mixture of high-, mid-, and low-competition keywords in this niche, but you need to be specific to get your target market. Otherwise, you’ll run the risk of getting traffic that may be interested in getting craft supplies online, but are not really looking for the specific craft supplies you recommend.
Try for long-tail keywords. If the affiliate program you’ll join will allow you to use brand names as keywords, then look into them. Be as specific as possible. “Craft lace” will get you high monthly search values but high-competition keywords. “black craft strip lace” will get you lower search values, but also lower competition.
You don’t really need to focus much on buyer-intent keywords in this niche. Information keywords will get you plenty of traffic to your site just the same. You can target keywords by writing reviews on specific craft supplies, which works better for some projects than others. Or, you can write about your own creations and show how you did it, then list what materials you used with your affiliate links. This works much like those food blogs where blog owners share their recipes with a link here and there of the things they used. Tutorials for crafting, especially for costume-related projects, will carry you a long way, but it should be something you have some experience with or at least feel passionate about.
The Craft Affiliate Programs
This is yet another niche that does not have any affiliate programs through ClickBank. There are a handful of craft affiliate programs in the ClickBank Marketplace, but they belong to specific crafts, not the craft supplies niche.
So, as always, I went looking for craft supplies affiliate programs online. Now, these 5 options I think best represent the diversity of affiliate programs for this niche. But they are not the only ones, and they are not necessarily the only good options. There are plenty more out there, but the ones I’ve chosen for you are a great way to get your feet wet, so to speak, when starting on this niche.
CreateForLess.com
CreateForLess.com has all the crafting supplies you need for your scrapbooking. sewing, quilting, and beading projects. Ir has a section for kid’s crafts, too. Prices range from a few dollars to about $20 or so.
Affiliates receive a 7% commission for each sale, and bulk orders can get you bigger commissions. Affiliate cookies last for 45 days and you need only apply through Commission Junction to promote CreateForLess.com.
Creativebug
Creativebug deviates from the other programs in this niche. It’s not a craft supplies website. What the site does is create tutorials for various crafts projects. For $4.95 each month, you have access to well-made tutorials on projects for a variety of crafts, from sewing, quilting and yarnwork to papercrafting and jewelry. This is a great option to recommend to your followers who are just starting out. You can get tutorials and how-tos on YouTube, but the quality will not be as good as those in Creativebug’s collection. The site also has specific projects that take you from beginner to more advanced skills.
I also included Creativebug here because it offers affiliates 75% commission for paid subscriptions, and 30% on gift subscriptions. You need to be a ShareASale affiliate to join Creativebug’s affiliate program.
StitchCraftCreate.co.uk
StitchCraftCreate.co.uk is everything CreateForLess.com is, but for UK crafters. The site primarily targets people who are interested in knitting and sewing.
Just like CreateForLess, you get 7% commission on all sales, but the cookie duration is only 30 days. You can sign up for the affiliate program through LinkShare.
Annie’s Craft Store
The website name says it all : Annie’s Craft Store. Needlework, beading, painting, paper crafts and more broadly, all kinds of crafts. Annie’s has the supplies for it. The site also offers online classes.
Annie’s Craft Store affiliates get 20% commission on all sales and 30% if they sign up for classes through the affiliate’s link. Head on over and sign up with Commission Junction to promote Annie’s Craft Store products.
MisterArt.com
If Ms. Annie doesn’t have what you need for your projects, then maybe MisterArt has it! MisterArt.com claims to be the “largest online arts and crafts supply store” in the world. I have not seen any site with as comprehensive a collection of arts and craft supplies, so maybe it really is what it claims to be.
The site gives affiliates 10% commission per sale. Like Annie’s Craft Store, MisterArt is part of the Commission Junction network.
Amazon.com offers craft and art supplies, too. The commission isn’t all that great compared to the other craft supplies stores that we’ve covered, but Amazon is such a big enterprise, and it carries such a wide array of merchandise, that there’s always that possibility of earning a higher commission. Be sure to look into the Amazon affiliate program along with the other options.
Get Crafty: Build Links Smartly
You may not have your site up yet, but that’s no excuse not to look at link-building and inbound marketing methods this early. Having a good link-building plan now will prepare you for what you need to do once the site is up, rather than letting it sit idle while you decide which link-building tactic to try first.
Social Media Marketing
This comes as no surprise. Frequent readers of the Niche of the Week posts might accuse me of monotony, but I challenge you to find a better link-building method: one that builds links and allows to you to engage your target market. Not to mention the side benefit of getting traffic outside of Google.
Social media marketing allows for all that, and works for most niches too. Is it any wonder why it’s on nearly every Niche of the Week post?
In the case of the crafts niche, social media marketing is important because that’s where all the sharing happens — especially on Pinterest. Share your projects there, recommend products, and exchange ideas with fellow crafters. Share links to your site and share links to other sites. Always keep in mind that in this method, it’s not all about you. It’s about sharing engaging content with your followers, building your site’s online presence and all that jazz.
Reverse Engineering
There are plenty of established websites in this niche. Make them your friends: refer to them, link to them, and plug their domain names into SEO applications and check the sites they build their links on. Then build links on the same sites. Where reverse engineering is concerned, the friend of your friend is your friend.
Past that sad attempt for humour is the undeniable reason for doing this: reverse engineering can help even out the competition. It doesn’t get rid of it altogether, but building links on the same sites as your competitor sites takes away some of their edge.
Consider it widening your site’s reach, too.
Amazon Kindle Traffic
The craft niche is one especially suited to promotions through Amazon Kindle. There’s plenty of interest in the niche, and there’s a lot of information that is being shared within it. Creating a small e-book on paper crafts, or a guide on how beginners can knit a patterned sweater, won’t be difficult. There’s also a ready audience.
Have a page at the end with links to your recommended products and relevant pages to your site, then share it on Amazon Kindle. You can charge a fee for each download to make some easy cash (just keep the price low), or keep it free to get more downloads.
Craft Supplies Affiliate Programs: Ready-Made or Too Artful?
How quick we come this question, but then, this is the driving question in each and every Niche of the Week article : Will this niche make me money?
I’m sure a lot of you would prefer a straightforward Yes or No, but that is not the case. Most of the time, the answer involves a big “But”. Yes, you can but… No, you can’t but…
Strategy plays a big role in succeeding in your chosen niche. Don’t go into anything blindly. Do your homework. Research. Take the time to look at the numbers, look at what’s trending. While I am a big fan of going after niches that you’re interested in or are passionate about, you have to consider what the market wants, too.
As for the craft supplies affiliate niche, yes, you’ll make money in this niche. It won’t be a lot, considering the commission rates and how much these craft supplies go for. It’ll take time too, if you’re just starting out. It helps to be genuinely interested in the niche.
If you already have a site about crafts, then it’s time to make money off that website. Join any of the above affiliate programs and start promoting them on your craft site.
There’ll be competition, but you don’t have to look at other craft sites as the enemy. These are new sites to visit and connect with, new people to exchange ideas with. It’s a way to cross-promote and network with other potential authorities. And all the while, you’re making a bit of dough on the side.
And with that ends this week’s Niche of the Week. I hope you enjoyed it and found it informative! Pass the word on using the Share buttons below! Do you know of a craft supplies affiliate program that should have been featured here? Would you try your hand at making crafts and making money from them? Is there a niche you’d like us to investigate? Share your thoughts and leave a comment!
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