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Educating the Consumer: Budget and the Mind of the Customer

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on July 19, 2012

Written by Maker Success Team member Heather Bailey.

Having something custom built is a new experience for most people. I must confess, before I began working at CustomMade, I had NO idea how much it would cost to have, let’s say, a custom bookshelf crafted for me. And if someone pressed me to come up [...]

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Stephen and Lorenz’s Excellent Adventure: A Maker and Customer Collaboration Story

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on July 18, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey of CustomMade’s Maker Success Team.

It’s not often you have the opportunity to see how the furniture you fill your life with is built. It’s even more rare when you get to lend a hand in actually building it. For CustomMade customer Lorenz, being heavily involved with the entire process of [...]

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A CustomMade Employee’s First Experience as a Custom(er)

Posted by Marcie in Custom Community, For Customers, For Makers on July 11, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, team member and all around good person on our Maker Success Team.

It was Monday morning when I was struck by an unexpected revelation. I’ve been an employee at CustomMade for nearly three months. I’ve spent my days talking to makers, giving them tips for interacting with customers, [...]

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We DIG the Underground

Posted by Marcie in Custom Community, For Customers, For Makers on July 10, 2012

Another great article written by Tammy Kingan from the CustomMade Maker Success Team.

It happens in 65 cities across the US with an average of 750 attendees per city and 1200 new participating artists every month… can you guess what it is?

It’s the RAW Natural Born Artists movement, started in 2005 by Heidi [...]

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Celebrating our First $1,000,000 of Custom Made Products

Posted by Marcie in Company News and Info, CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on June 26, 2012

Over the first six months of 2012, we here at CustomMade have been thrilled to witness the growth of the first entirely custom online marketplace.  Our team has been constantly working to improve the site experience and our ability to match customer’s idea’s with the talented professional makers who can bring them to life.  Recently [...]

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Maker Spotlight: Ron Corl Design, Ltd.

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, Maker Spotlight on June 16, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey of CustomMade.com Maker Success Team.

At 12 years old, CustomMade maker Ron Corl encountered a problem. It was the late 1960’s and Ron discovered that he needed a case and shelving unit that would successfully store his 8-track player and his record player. After finding that no such piece of furniture [...]

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The Benefits of Making a Creation Story

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on June 13, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey, invaluable member of our Maker Success Team.

Take a gander at our home page, CustomMade.com. Notice the entire section devoted solely to unique creation stories? It’s the part of our homepage that’s constantly changing with new creation stories—and updates to ones in progress—added all the time. You’ll always see something different [...]

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“Thank You Recession” — How Two Artists from Michigan Revitalized their Community

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on June 7, 2012

Written by CustomMade’s Maker Success team member Tammy Kingan.

It could be the plot of a Hollywood movie: A young couple struggling to start their lives together get hit by a massive recession, come up with a new idea, and follow their dreams to New York City… except this tale doesn’t stop there and this [...]

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How to Optimize your CustomMade Portfolio

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 4, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, Maker Support team member at CustomMade.com.

Adding work to your portfolio is vitally important to gaining visibility on the site. Our most successful makers have over 50 projects and counting in their portfolios. The more content you have, the higher your chances are of having a potential customer [...]

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Makers Create Paradise City

Posted by Marcie in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on May 29, 2012

This article was written by CustomMade team member Tammy Kingan.  Tammy is part of our Maker Success Team and wants to introduce all makers to the wonderful possibilities available to them on CustomMade.com.

I literally could not have asked for a more perfect weekend to be at the appropriately named Paradise City Arts Festival in [...]

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