Hi! Since the holiday shopping season is in full swing, marketing tips and ideas are even more important. That's why each and every week I scour the interwebs and gather the best tutorials, tips, and other helpful links to help market your handmade arts and craft business. In addition, I’ll post links to cool crafts I’ve seen, and blogs I think are worth following. I hope you enjoy this weeks links!

• Don’t Let Your Biz Fall Apart During The Holidays
  
  
  some tips to keep your business going – and not go totally insane
  

• Five Ways to Become a Local
  
  
  
  Ideas regarding how to connect locally as an artist.

• Do You Want to License Your Art? Here’s Your Contact List
  
  
  
  A comprehensive list of companies who accept submissions from artists.

• 10 Cures for Your Social Media Pains

• Photo Editing Tools – Free and Paid Options
  
  
  
  When producing item photographs for your online store, photo editing tools become essential to ensuring your potential customers accurately size-up your items.

• How to write a blog post every day
  
  
  
  Best tips on how to manage writing a blog post every day.
  

If you know of any good handmade craft marketing resources I should include in the next Crafty Connections post please don’t hesitate to email me, or leave the link(s) in the comments section! I would love to be able to share these great resources with everyone! Also, are these links helpful to you? Let me know! I appreciate the feedback!!!! Thanks!