Charmchatter Starts Advertising
Greetings charmers worldwide! I've been very involved with my new job for the past couple of weeks and have neglected to do any blogging. I've not completely forgot about this little site I've got started here though. 
What sparked the advertising idea was a generous offer by Rachel Whitlow of Whitlow Unique Collectibles. She invited me to join the charming group of vintage sellers she features on her website http://whitlowuniquecollectibles.com. Some of my readers may know her from Twitter as VintageSeller. I was delighted and honored to receive her invitation. All I had to do was send her a logo to link to my on-line store and a widget featuring some of my items. Immediately I thought of my Charmcrazey Bonanzle Booth because the creators of Bonanzle have a nifty widget creating feature built right in. And I created a little fitzcharming banner button using my logo and the free Picnik photo editing program. It was so easy. So you can now find me on Ms Whitlow's site in the Off Site Shops 1 category (scroll down the page a little bit to find me). Thank you Rachel.
Okay, I thought, now that I've got my handy dandy banner made, I hopped on over to Moomettesgram' Musings, where I had been contemplating purchasing a banner ad for a while. Previously my main stumbling block I had with contacting Cindi, the author of the site, was finding a banner button in the 125 x 125 size. Now that I had easily created one, I just sent it to her and she linked that button to my CharmCrazey Ruby Lane site. Cindi is another Twitter friend that I've met who tweets under the name Moomettesgram. She's got so much energy and wears several different blogging hats in addition to maintaining a full time job. Just look at the number of categories & pages on her site. Don't know how she manages. She's my hero.
And finally just yesterday I decided to join an online site directory called The Vintage List. 
This site is created and maintained by Mitzi, also known as vintagegoodness on Twitter. I love the graphics on her site. Her website tag line is "The Vintage List is a human edited directory of sites that will serve as your trusted guide to the best that the online vintage community has to offer." I believe her. She personally reviews every submission for a strict list of quality standards. There's a great bunch of vintage sellers there. I also used this venue to link to my Ruby Lane store.
I figured ebay has enough traffic, and is in a bit of turmoil these days so I am trying to ramp up the other stores, and I already link from this blog to my Bonanzle Booth. So Ruby Lane could use a double boost of publicity. Anyway please check out these websites and while you're there visit the other participants. As I indicated before, I've found all of them through using Twitter, which I love. I find new contacts there every day and get most of my on-line selling news there. It's a great invention and I'm hooked.
I hope to be back to steady blogging as soon as I get acclimated to my new work schedule, so check back regularly.
Filed Under: Selling on Ebay & The Charm Cellar
About the Author: Wanda Fitzgerald is a Florida native and an vintage charm collector who loves to share her adventures in an e-commerce jewelry business with anyone who is interested.
Great insight into the world of connecting online. There really are thousands of ways to do it. You are in very good company with these folks!