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Be Featured

***UPDATE August 4, 2010 – Be Indie is now accepting Features for August, September and October. These features appear on our blog every Monday morning.***

When I started out with my own Etsy store, I found a lot of helpful tips and tricks in the Forums of Etsy. It amazes me still how generous these craftspeople and artisans are with sharing the knowledge they’ve garnered from running their own businesses.

Believing that it is my duty as well as my honor to help promote the arts and crafts and the handmade movement, I’m delighted to announce our weekly FEATURED FELLOW ETSIAN posts.

These posts appear every Monday morning and are available to any artist or crafts person who creates handmade goodies and has a shop on Etsy.

If you’re interested in being featured, please use the form below to answer these simple questions. Try to talk to this form as if you were talking to an interviewer from a magazine.:

Your Name (required)

Your Email (required)

Subject

What is your first name and where are you from? (State or country only please)

What type of art or craft do you create and how did you get involved with it?

What’s the name of your Etsy shop and when did you open for business?

What about your family? Are you married? Do you have kids? How do they feel about your business?

If you're married with children, how do you juggle being a wife, a mom and a business owner / crafter?

What are the goals you have for your Etsy shop? Would you like to see it be your full time income, is it your full time income or do you just enjoy it as a hobby.

What tips or hints do you have for those just starting out or who are considering opening a shop or who are struggling with their existing shops?

Please provide your Etsy URL

Please provide your BLOG URL

Please provide a link to one of your shop's items that you'd like featured with your post. In so doing, you grant Cecil Bobby Designs the right to publish the image you've posted in your shop, here on our blog, linking to that images product page.

Thank you for submitting your information. As soon as I have scheduled your feature, I will send an email to let you know the date you can expect to see it live on our site!