Haitian Crafts - Fair Trade Haitian Art and Crafts Interview Name of your website?~~Haitian Crafts - Fair Trade Haitian Art and Crafts Your name? Kevin Ward Your Location (city, etc) Edgewater When did you start your website and why? Haitian Crafts was started in July 07 after a trip Haiti by Kevin and Renice. The trip was organized by FAVICA to help Haitian artists and small businesses get online and in business. This is part of our effort to achieve these aim. Please give us a short summary of your website, business model, etc Haitian Crafts is a web site of Global Crafts a Fair Trade Organization. Our goal is to generate sales of handcrafted items for Haitian artisans. The hope is that we can help just some ofthe people we work with escape poverty through trade. What has been the most difficult part of creating and running your website? It is always difficult buying and sourcing Fair Trade crafts from anywhere in the world , Haiti is no exception. What has been the easist part of operating your website? As an experienced web based company the actual mechanics of building an online pressence is fairly painless. We were very lucky to have got the name HaitianCrafts.com What was your biggest mistake? So far none. Who maintains your website and why? We are lucky enough to be able to maintain our owen web sites. Tell us how your business has benefitted from your website? We got our first order in a week. What are your views on ecommerce and the future of the internet? It will grow. What are your views on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? We tend to find that common sense seems to work. What are your views on Search Engines? Have they helped or hindered your website? Yes. Absolutly the most important thing What method has been most successful for promoting your website? Google Adwords What method has been least successful for promoting your website? Print advertising What would you like to see change with respect to the internet? Just clear some of the junk and those sites taht are simply parked for click through traffic What is your website address? Haitian Crafts - Fair Trade Haitian Art and Crafts | 
