Craftsman with Fine Craftsmanship to Promote Crafts Online
If you are one craftsman with fine craftsmanship made a lot of art crafts in your spare time, you must want to promote your crafts online. But you will wonder where to promote them without extra cost but a little time to do that. If you are the Chinese, this will be not a problem, because there are some many b2b marketplace or ecommerce websites as platform to display your products online, it is free of charge, just need a little time and patience.
A large number of b2b websites, either comprehensive b2b websites or professional b2b website which forcus on only one industry like crafts, offer you free membership (you can creat one free account for yourself) to build showroom or storefront online (one sub-domain as your website subsidiary to the b2b site) and display your products and post your trade leads. So the Chinese craftsman or craft suppliers can easily promote their folk art crafts online, free of charge, but it will need a lot of time to publish and post your crafts if you will go to many websites.
But if you are the craftsmen in western country, the free promotion will be out of the question, unless you go to the Asia B2B websites. Even if there are some b2b trade website portals in western countries, they almost only offer premium service and no free membership, if you want to promote your crafts or marketing online through them, you must prepare enough budget and advertisement fees for your craft promotions. It will take you a lot of time and money for that.
For the benefits, craftsmen should know some information on those b2b craft websites
or large comprehensive marketplace. Of course, the higher pagerank, the better for the b2b craft websites.
Are Arts the Same as Crafts in Your Mind (craftsmanship)?
In my opinion, the conception or define for craft in China are different from the English-speaking countries.
The Chinese define the crafts as folk artworks,antique imitations or decorative items, the craftsmanship just belong to the craft professionals or craftsman, it is high-lever skill only for few persons.
While the westerns define craft as gadget or gadgetry or jigger for people to make as one making skill or tips, it just one hobby that everyone can take it or do it. So in the west, there are so many websites or community, blogs to guide you how to make your own craft gifts, everyone who love to make little items or gift can make his own crafts according to the making tip or blog articles.
I wonder whether it is the problem that more and more Chinese traditional folk art skills come to an end, and more folk craftsmanship are lost for no craftsman to inherit the traditional elite skill, which should have be succeed to from generation by generation.
One a more personal level, crafts in the west are one arts, every one maybe the artisan, while in China, crafts are elite artworks for the cultural elites. Crafts are popular with the westerns, while the Chinese crafts just come to life.