Meet the Seller - Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Do a Little Dance

Name: Sojung Kim McCarthy

Shop Name: Do a little dance

Shop Link: https://doalittledance.etsy.com

Located in: Bournemouth

Sells: Embroidery hoop art, coin purses & other embroidered accessories

Maker's Story: Sojung Kim McCarthy is a Korean-born designer/ illustrator/ maker based in Bournemouth, Dorset. Madly obsessed about tea, coffee, furry animals and all things girly, Sojung makes crafts that reflect her passions. DoALittleDance is Sojung's bespoke brand of handmade gifts all designed and crafted by herself. It started as a way of using up the growing pile of fabrics she had accumulated, but she ended up hoarding even more materials along the way! Her dream is to keep creating crafts and drawings that make people happy.

Dorset Team Christmas Fair: Sojung Kim McCarthy will be selling her hoop art, coin purses and other embroidered accessories at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on Saturday 3rd December at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne.

Please come along, meet her and our other makers and sellers.

Doors open at 10am and close at 4pm and it is free entry.

For more information please see our Facebook event page or blog post

#DorsetTeamTips - Admin!

This week we are talking admin! Not the most exciting of topics we admit but one that is essential to making your business run smoothly and this is particularly important in the run up to Christmas.

We would love to hear what you do to make the more boring bits of your business go smoothly?

Do you have a top tip for paperwork, tidying or organisation?

Do you have an amazing system for organising what orders go out when or maybe you have a fantastic system for sorting your jewellery supplies. We would love to hear all about them!

Please either comment below or share on any social media platform by including #DorsetTeamTips in your post.

#DorsetTeamTips - How to increase traffic to your shop

Our #DorsetTeamTips for this week are about how to increase the traffic to your shop:

1. Use social media such as pinterest, twitter, facebook and instagram to share your items with a link to your listing.

2. If you have a blog, backlinks (links to your shop) are a great way of boosting SEO for your shop

3. Remember to include your shop website address on your business cards and email signature

4. Work on your tags and titles to ensure a good SEO ranking (Where your shop shows up in search engine results)

Do you have a top tip that you could share? Please use the hashtag #DorsetTeamTips to share your tips on the best way to increase traffic to your shop.  The best ones will be retweeted/shared by our Dorset Team social media accounts. Please also be sure to read other members top tips, you might learn something new!