woofwoof - 1:56 am on Jul 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Think Carefully. If you just build the site it will fail. If your willing to hold her hand ALL the way and she's willing and able to learn the skills required and her product is good enough in terms of quality and cost. She may have a chance.

My first ever site was a beading/craft store for my girlfriend (who's very computer literate), I completely rebuilt it four times, seo'd it to death spent hundreds of hours on it(at least) and in three years she made ~$5000. It makes a pretty brochure.

Her best week online ~$500 in contrast that same week she sold $4000 worth offline to stores.

My gf who sitting here with me suggests a 'shopping blog' wordpress with a paypal shopping cart and a slightly customized template (lots to choose from) where she can post each new piece with a couple of pictures on an easy to use front end, its free and should take you a couple of hours to set up. The blog approach might work well for link love too in the right circles. (try searching for BUST on google) and have a look at their links page entitled girl wide web - thousands of individual craft sites/blogs to link too/from)

Also have a look at Etsy cheap ebay for crafters.

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