Saturday, March 29, 2008

New Ways For Store Owners To Draw Customers

DM Production and Sales

Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

Looking For Hand Crafted Products?

Visit The Hand Made Product Directory

It has been a few days since we have posted anything in our blog. The reason for this is a simple one. We have been undergoing some very significant growth lately in our overall business and needed to consolidate our efforts.

For those who don’t know, DM Production and Sales is a division of New Creations Consulting, LLC. We are a rather unusual business in that instead of turning crafting into a business, we incorporated crafting into our existing business.

Our business has several aspects. We initially started as a consulting business for Historical Property restorations but because of the number of requests we were receiving from our customers and their interior designers, we decided that we needed to branch out into creating Hand Crafted Country Rustic & Primitive Home Decor items. This was really a no-brainer for us since almost everyone in our office and shop was already heavily into woodworking or some other form of producing handmade and hand crafted items.

As a result of the requests from our customers and interior decorators who would ask us about where to get specific types hand crafted items that we didn't create, we started The Hand Made Directory which is an online Directory of people and stores that produce and sell Handmade & Hand Crafted products.

The purpose of the directory is two fold. First to help other producers and sellers of handmade and hand crafted products pull traffic to their online store, and second to help our customers from the other aspects of our business find products that they are looking for but products that we don’t produce. Our overall goal is to make the directory the largest directory of it’s type on line.

For those who have never been to The Hand Made Product Directory, you will find it different than most other directories you will find on line. The biggest difference is that the directory is completely human controlled. All submissions for a listing in the directory are reviewed by a real live human. You will not find automated listing submission forms either. Those requesting a Free listing submit their information by email. Why, you ask. Simple. Automated systems result in abuse and as a result a directory with a great deal of unrelated and irrelevant material in it.

One other difference is that the user isn’t manipulated into seeing only certain stores chosen by those controlling the directory. In no way will we manipulate the view to show them what we feel they should see. Unlike many other search engines and directories, we don’t think people are too stupid to know what they want. We feel this is not only fair to those who are doing the seeking but to those stores listed in the directory.

Every store listed in any given category has an equal opportunity to be visited by that potential customer. Even our search feature is simple. If you search for something, that search is going to show the searcher every page in the entire directory that contains the search words or term the searcher used. For those who want to have someone else make their decisions for them shouldn’t bother using The Hand Made Product Directory. We believe people who use our directory are very capable of making their own decisions.

I’ve pointed out some of the advantages of using The Hand Made Product Directory from a potential customers side, now let me tell you store owners who produce and sell handmade or hand crafted products why you should be listed in the directory. First, it’s FREE. Free is always good. I’ve listed the top 4 reasons below.

The Hand Made Directory has many Free ways to help a store draw customers to your store.

1 - They can obtain a Free Link to their store in the directory. There is even the ability to upgrade a listing for those who want to.

2 - If a store is having a sale, there is a section in the directory where they can place a Free Sales Ad. There are also many Free Sales Banners they can choose from to use in your Sale Announcement. Potential Customers who come to the directory are encouraged on every page of the directory to visit the "Now On Sale" page to see what sales are running in what stores.

3 – Store owners can have their Blog listed for Free on the Store Owners Blog page.

4 - There is a Store Owners Resource page with links to other helpful sites for promoting and maintaining your store.

We also have plans to add more features for both potential customers and store owners.

Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc

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All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net


Thursday, March 20, 2008

New Features In The Hand Made Product Directory

DM Production and Sales

Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988
Looking For Hand Crafted Products?

Visit The Hand Made Product Directory

For those who follow this blog and also make and produce hand crafted items, we wanted to let you know that the The Hand Made Product Directory has been growing at a phenomenal rate. Because of this, we have made significant changes, improvements and enhancements for both the shopper and those who are listed on the site. If you are looking for Hand Crafted Products, this is the place to look.

We would also like to bring to the readers attention another shopping directory primarily for those who are seeking Primitive Hand Crafted items. The place I am referring to is

The Primitive Handmade Directory

http://www.theprimitivehandmadedirectory.com/index.html

From americana, dolls, candles, scents and soaps to quilt bears and everything in between.

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Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc


VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS



Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Monday, March 17, 2008

DM Production and Sales

Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

As I mentioned in our last post, we are participating in the Etsy Interior Design Team Easter Sale and would like all our readers to take advantage of all the great sale items available at this time. The reader can learn more about the sale by going to our Team Home Page http://interiordesignetsy.ning.com/

As some readers may already know, DM Production and Sales also hosts and maintains The Hand Made Product Directory. Although relatively new, the Directory is growing rapidly and receiving considerable activity. If you produce Hand Crafted products and are not already listed in the Directory, you may want to consider obtaining your Free Link in the Directory. To do so just follow this link http://www.dmpmc.net/handmade.html Or http://www.dmpmc.net/dirsubmission.html

Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc


VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS


Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Saturday, March 15, 2008

New Site Changes & Look Plus A Big Sale


Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

We have been very busy the last couple of weeks. We have done a complete reworking and update to our company web site http://www.dmpmc.net as well as The Hand Made Directory http://www.dmpmc.net/handmade.html . This is a directory of web sites and stores that produce Hand Crafted products.

To top all this off, we are preparing to make some changes to our product lines. With the pressure everyone is feeling because of the economy these days, we are going to be listing in our on line stores more products that are not only decorative but which also have more actual functionality to them. Some of these new products will be sold in a kit format. 99% of these kits will only require a Phillips Screwdriver and about 5 minutes to assemble. This will significantly help reduce shipping costs and actual production costs. These savings will be passed along to our customers in the form of lower prices. We will be listing many more Wall Shelving types and styles as well as other functional decorative wall oriented products at fantastic savings.

For most of our existence, a large portion of our business has been of a custom nature. We produce a large number of custom items for a variety of customers, both private and business oriented and anyone who is seeking custom work is encouraged to contact us. Our custom work charges are very reasonable and our turn-a-round time is exceptional in most instances.

With Easter almost upon us and as a member of the Etsy Interior Design Team, we are participating in the Team's EASTER SALE. All our wood products in our Etsy Shop http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com are currently 25% OFF the shown listed price. All our Picture & Drawing Prints are also just $5.00 each during this sale.

Stop by our Etsy Store Today and take advantage of these great savings.

Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc


VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS


Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Friday, March 7, 2008

SPRING CLEANING SALE 30% TO 50% OFF

DM Production and Sales
Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

DM Production and Sales has been in business since 1988 providing quality products and services to our customers. We are having a

SPRING CLEANING SALE IN OUR ETSY STORE
ALL WOOD ITEMS 30% TO 50% OFF THE LISTED PRICE

Buy Today And Save

Quantities Limited On Many Items

Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc


VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS


Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Using Different Wood Grains, Shades and Colors In Country Decorating

DM Production and Sales

Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

Does your decorating approach have to be all the same wood grains, shades and colors? It’s a simple question and it may seem like a ridiculous question but it does get asked from time to time. The answer however is far from simple. So much depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

If you’re looking to create a more formal look, you might want to keep your color scheme more closely related. If on the other hand you are looking for a more natural and authentic appearance, this isn’t going to be critical. I’ve been in many a real working Country Ranch and Farm house over the years and the one thing that just didn’t seem to be all that important was matching everything up. In decades and centuries past, being able to worry about such things wasn’t practical. Many if not most items were hand made and the type of wood or the items color was determined mostly by what material was available at the time. One just didn’t run down to your neighborhood lumber and hardware store like is done today. You used what you had in many instances and were thankful you had the material available. No matter what it happened to be.

When I was a youngster and growing up on the farm, we were fortunate to have a huge number of black walnut trees in one far corner of the farm. Because of this we had a great deal of walnut lumber for my folks to work with. Our neighbor on the other hand has easy access to oak and yet another to elm. We traded with each other but for the most part, we used what we had quickly available. Most household items were build or created when you couldn’t work outside for one reason or another so you built things pretty quickly. Functionality was usually more important than looks were to a great degree. Today we are lucky. We have the ability and availability of products to do almost anything we like when we are decorating.

One of the greatest advantages of decorating in a Country fashion, and particularly if you are striving for an authentic look, is that it is pretty difficult to really mess it up. The fact that so much of the Country style is directly connected to the persons own likes, dislikes and personality, who is to say what is right or wrong. As long as it works for you, that’s the key.

Another advantage of decorating in a Country style is that the normal process of accumulating more decorations and other items doesn’t normally create the problem of “Will this look right in this or that room?”. If the piece is of a Country, Rustic or Primitive nature, most likely it will fit right in without much difficulty. All three styles generally blend very well together.

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Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc







VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS


Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Monday, March 3, 2008

Where To Find Hand Crafted Products On The Net

DM Production and Sales
Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

Instead of our normal Monday’s Crafters Spotlight section this week, I thought that instead of focusing in on a single crafter I would tell the reader about a resource for finding crafters of all types. In times past, if you wanted something that had been Hand Crafted, you either had to know someone who produced that item or you could figure on spending hours searching the internet to find someone who did. This isn’t the case today. For the real discriminating buyer, the largest group of crafters of all kinds can be found at a place called Etsy (http://www.etsy.com). Almost anything that can be Hand Crafted can be found there. There are thousands of crafters and their companies and hundreds of thousands of Hand Crafted products to be found there, including ourselves (some of our products are show below). Some who have shops on Etsy are selling their work as a part time endeavor while others are full time crafters and derive their living from their work. The best way to look at Etsy is to consider it like a very large shopping mall. A mall the size of the whole earth since you will find crafters on Etsy from around the world. Want something custom made? Don’t worry, many shop owners do custom work and do it very reasonably.

It is important to understand that Etsy is not an Auction web site. It isn’t anything like most Auction web sites. There is no bidding on a product. If you want to buy it, you simply pay for the item and it is yours. Just like you would in any large quality department store. The real difference is that you don’t have to walk around this mall and what you are buying will most likely be “One of a Kind” and of course, the item will be shipped to you. Let me also add that to the majority of shop owners, Customer Service is extremely important to them and they really treat their customers exceptionally well.

For Hand Crafted on line store owners here is a place you can gain some additional exposure at no cost. The Hand Made Directory The instructions for adding your store are at the bottom of the front page.

Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New Products
Visit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc



VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS




Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net

Saturday, March 1, 2008

New Product Display Equipment Line Being Introduced

DM Production and Sales

Bringing The Past To The Present Since 1988

I wanted to take today and introduce a new product line we have created. It is designed to help other crafters market and merchandise their products. Merchandising displays and equipment can be very expensive. What we have done is develop some high quality items at very reasonable and affordable prices. The first items we are introducing are for those who deal in jewelry.


For those crafters and/or sellers who specialize in jewelry, we have started to add a product line to help you display your products at shows or in stores. Today we listed in our Etsy store a number of items. We will be adding more over the next few days. If you have a specific need for displaying your products, let us know. If it is a wooden type of display you are looking for, we can help. We do custom work upon request and at very reasonable prices.

If you have an idea for a type of merchandise display you would like to see us create, please contact us. We are always looking for new items to create for our valued customers. It doesn’t have to be jewelry oriented either. We can and do make display and merchandising products for a number of product types.



Our Etsy Store Is Our Flag Ship Store For Many Of Our New ProductsVisit Any Of Our Stores Today For Fantastic Savings On Country Rustic & Primitive Home Décor

http://www.dmpmc.net
http://dmproductionandsales.etsy.com
http://www.auctionquests.com/stores/dmpmc
http://www.ioffer.com/shops/dmpmc


VISIT OUR ETSY STORE FOR FANTASTIC SAVINGS


Copyright © 1988-2008, New Creations Consulting, LLC / DM Production and Sales

All rights reserved

Sales@dmpmc.net www.dmpmc.net