Craft Gate

Back in the day of a successful craft market there were flourishing

Small Craft Shops in every town,
New and Exciting Products on the shelf,
Stimulating Projects in books, project sheets and consumer magazines,
Crowded Craft Shows with rows and rows of booths and fun.

Today's market does not reflect a successful market. In fact, it is in need of YOUR HELP to rebuild it.

We have lost the Small Craft Shop and are seeing Manufacturers, Distributors and Trade and Consumer Publications cutting back on new product, technique and design support or worse, closing their doors. Our local Craft Shows and Craft Classes are almost extinct.

They are all the very heartbeat of our market and if we lose them we lose the market!

We are asking all to participate in a Simple Solution to help

Strengthen the Craft Market once again.

Take our craft challenges below:

SUPPORT YOUR SMALL LOCAL AND ONLINE CRAFT BUSINESS OWNERS and ORGANIZATIONS: Shop their local businesses and or websites for your home decor and or gift items before you buy an import. Join national or local craft organizations whose mission is to strengthen their field of crafting. Maybe you can start your own craft club with monthly meetings.

SUPPORT THE PROFESSIONAL DESIGNERS: Shop professional designers who offer new and exciting projects in either, book, CD or E-Books. Start a NEW project today!

SUPPORT CRAFT CLASSES: Begin to teach others your talents by teaching in your home, your community center, church, online or take a craft class yourself.

TEACH THE CHILDREN: Share your talents with your children. "Crafting is a Family Tradition, Pass It On" as someone special in your past may have done.

SUPPORT CONSUMER PUBLICATIONS: Subscribe to or pick up an issue of a craft consumer magazine. Start a local craft gazette in your area distributing it at local shops and events.

SUPPORT MANUFACTURERS through purchasing product and creating.

When

Shopping the Small Local and Online Craft Business Owners,
Joining a National or Local Craft Organization,
Buying designs/projects from Professional Designers,
Taking or teaching Classes,
Purchasing a copy of or subscribing to a Craft Consumer Publication,
and Starting New Projects

you are stimulating product sales, which sustains the craft industry.

Our challenge to the MANUFACTURERS

Research the number of online users who still have the desire to craft, but cannot due to the lack of retailers, product and design availability. I think you will find that the Internet houses more than enough hobbyist and small independent consumers to support your companies.

Reinvest into the professional designers and teachers who for decades provided motivation and education of product use through well written projects.

Look back and see what worked before the market tanked. Incorporate the effective measures of those times with today's tools, research the numbers on the Internet and work with us to reach the goal of a functional craft cottage industry both on and offline once again.

Other ways everyone can help:

PLEASE JOIN OUR CRAFTGATE MISSION NEWSLETTER and once a month you will receive updates on the status of the mission, fun information on national events we will be holding and other ways to help plant seeds. This is going to take the effort of all of us to accomplish a strong market once again.

Join Our Craftgate Mission Newsletter

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TELL OTHERS about the mission and ask them to get involved. Send them to WWW.CRAFTGATE.COM

Join the 1,000,000 CRAFTER'S ONLINE campaign on

Log on to your Facebook account then come back to this page and click on the 1,000,000 CRAFTER'S ONLINE LOGO shown here.

Let's have some FUN! Day after day you invest in the craft market contributing funds to purchase products; and offering up creative designs and finished piece to stimulate the world of crafting. We and our generous sponsors want to give back to you; so we have created this fun program that will include:

Weekly CraftContest.com contests
Monthly Grand Prize CraftContest.com contests
Mega Prize contests
Special surprise drawings throughout the month
Lists of other craft related contests on the Internet
Discount coupons on wonderful craft related products
and more!

It is fun and it is FREE to join and participate!. No purchase necessary.

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