Craft Cafe Artisan Chat - Me and the Boy

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Meet Tanya and Val from Me and the Boy

♥ Please tell us about yourself: 
I'm the mom of a great son. We love to craft and create with whatever we can get our hands on! My company started when I couldn't always afford play therapy for my autistic son....than slowly, I was able to afford for my husband to take an extra day off work. Family is my everything.
Our bath and body line is almost all Vegan friendly and every single item contains no paraben, silicone or phthalate.
All our candles and tart melts are made of non GMO soy wax

♥ How long have you been in business?
Just a little over 2 years

♥ Please describe your business:
We offer a bit of everything. Our tagline is accessorize yourself and your home. We offer candles, bath and body, nail polish, jewelry and more.

♥ Tell us what inspires you:
Everyday life inspires me. My family...and being able to not only offer my products to those that appreciate and love handmade but also shop handmade myself. It's awesome knowing that someone loves what I do!

♥ Please share with others, your best marketing techniques:
 I provide free samples in virtually every order I ship. Based on an order I try to find something in my stash of samples that I think you would love or would work well with what you already have picked. Also word of mouth is HUGE....and it's advertising I can't buy!

♥ What do you love most about your business?
The freedom to do as I please.....and working in a tank top and shorts everyday is nice too! Plus I love when my son helps.....it teaches him a lot of life lessons.

♥ Please tell us why have chosen Craft Café as a venue for your business?
 It's simple.....I don't pay a thing when I sell! I pay a small fee yearly to sell.....and have amazing support from owners of the site that are also handmade lovers and makers! I can even offer my items a bit less as I don't have to pay seller fees


♥ What advice can you give for crafters/artisans just starting out?
BE PATIENT.....don't expect much the first year....believe that you are full of passion and greatness and just when you decide to quit....give it your all....it will pay off.

♥ Where do you see your business in 5 years?
We are slowly working into the Canadian retail market and hope to have a better percentage of our products in the retail market by then.

♥ Lastly, would you like to offer our readers a special or coupon code for your Craft Cafe shop?
Yes, please use code: BLOGLOVE for 20% off an your entire order at my Craft Cafe Shop.
{Expires 4.30.13}

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We would like to send out a big THANK YOU to Tanya and Val for all their love and support.

Be sure to visit Me and The Boy soon ♥ ♥ Craft Cafe Shop / Facebook / Twitter

BriarMuse - Craft Cafe

BriarMuse - Craft Cafe

DISCONTINUED:

Regular Price: $2.50
25% OFF Sale: $1.88

Cotton candy, lemon drops, caramel, and raspberry jam with a nice dry musk heart.

Features

Handcrafted quality.
Soy/Botanical blended wax.
Phthalate free, premium fragrances.
Easy to clean up.
Long lasting.

No mess, no fuss, so easy to use, and long lasting. Briar Muse EasyTarts are made with our custom soy/botanical wax and are designed to be melted in the tin container they are packaged in. Each fragrance is carefully elected, rigorously tested, and phthalate free. Don't be fooled by their small size, they really pack a punch, lasting roughly 8 - 20 hours depending on your melter. Our tart tins are 100% recyclable.

Overview - How to Add Coupons

This image provides an overview of what to do and what you can't do with the coupons section of our site. 

Here's an update: Coupons are still not 100% done but its closer to being done.

Explanation of coupon types:

Whole Shop: this is a code you can set - to give different discounts to different groups of people - but it applies to the whole shop. You can choose % off or $ off. So if you want to give $5 to your friends - you can give them one code, and you want to give 40% off to your fans - you give them another code.
For this type of code you create the code & share the code. The customer applies the code at checkout and its off their whole order from your entire shop. Once you create the code you DO NOT have to apply it to listings. ONLY the individual product discounts must be applied to individual listings.

Individual product discount: this is like putting certain items on sale to EVERYONE. That is every item you have a product discount on - shows as on sale to everyone who looks at that item in your shop. This can lead to more spur of the moment purchases.***** IF You choose this type and want to apply it to some of your items, YOU MUST go into the products you want it to apply to, EDIT the products (2nd to last item in the edit product area) pick the discount you wish to apply and then click UPDATE & PUBLISH on your item to make sure it applies to your item. You have to do this manually at this time for each item you wish to add the discount to (and remove if you want to remove it early). Sorry there's no way to mass apply discounts yet.


**NOTE** there are plans for a 3rd type but I don't have full details yet. Most likely this will be an individual product discount - but that you give customers to enter at checkout (instead of everyone seeing an item on sale). (per discussions with our programmer).

This is just a temporary answer - as soon as the coupon area is 100% done I will complete a full tutorial.

-carrie-