About Us

Craftsu is a united community of craft artists and a place to buy and sell handmade crafts. The site is designed to help you tell your story, and in the process, invite more sales. It's about unleashing your marketing potential and creating a positive experience for shoppers of unique handmade crafts. Basic membership is absolutely free.

Craftsu gets traffic to its member community through ongoing publicity and search engine marketing campaigns. We use the latest search engine optimization features, capturing organic free traffic from blogs, news releases, articles, interviews, social networks, and from Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines every day. And we're growing. Our advisers include the top Internet marketing gurus.

Craftsu is an active social network where you can create a profile, upload photos, link to your other URLs and much more. Your Craftsu profile's content helps you attract more visitors to your listings from search engines. For the Artist's Guide, click here.

Members are free to link from your profile or other content to your personal URLs. The more link love (quality incoming links) you can generate to your profile page, the better your pages will rank in the search engines, bringing you more customers. And we encourage you to link to your pages on Craftsu from other sites as this will compound the link love that reaches your linked-to pages. You can also import your Flickr images and posts from your WordPress blog.

All of the above features and more come with free membership. Craftsu provides you multiple opportunities to include important keywords related to your craft to get more visitors.

Review of Craftsu.com by KillerStartups.com

"Buying handmade items has always proven to be popular. It has been that way long before Etsy came around, and if you look at stats regarding where do people turn for ideas and inspiration when it comes to buying gifts it dawns on you that a fair number resort to social networking sites. As such, a website like Craftsu is highly appealing since it is a social shopping resource that revolves around handmade crafts. That is, it will let the shopper do everything in the same place. He will be able to talk with his friends about these products that he likes, and he will be capable of buying these very same items through the site.

Moreover, the website offers a true platform for interaction as artists can tell their stories and engage customers in real-time, while also answering specific queries and doing their best to fulfill specific requests.

The social web is known for revitalizing each and every industry. This one could be no exception, and the ones who came up with Craftsu have covered so many bases that I doubt any user will come empty-handed out of it."

Stats About Social Networking
Social networking has grown into a major influencer in buying decisions. The latest statistics are showing people are turning to social networks in larger numbers to find out what products others are looking for and to find special deals. According to Mashable.com, recent stats on social media shopping from eMarketer report:

27% of shoppers online will look to social networks for gift ideas.
45% will use social networks to research items, compare prices and look for offers.
17% of consumers will be using social media in some way this holiday shopping season according to another report from Deloitte.
More than half of shoppers will research gift ideas and check out friends’ and family members’ wish lists.