- Looking for places in your neighborhood to find great fabrics, notions or sewing classes?
- Traveling out of town, and searching for a great local sewing lounge?
- Have a favorite local sewing store you think others should know about?
If you fall in any of these categories, the BurdaStyle Resource Map is made for you!
Launching Monday, November 2nd, we are hoping to build an extensive listing of businesses catering to our online community’s passions, beginning with a small selection of great businesses and growing steadily as more stores join. It will include the names, addresses and descriptions of host of places across the country, including:
- Fabric Stores
- Sewing Lounges
- Sewing Notions/Supplies Shop
- Sewing Machine Dealerships, and many more!
Until November 1st, integration into the Resource Map is only $30 dollars for a one-year listing. Thereafter, integration will be $40 Dollars per year, until stated otherwise.
If you are a business owner, this is an unbeatable and effective way to connect with our members, which include fashion designers, sewing hobbyists and crafters. Our member-base has grown to over 260,000+ engaged individuals, and our site garners 350,000 unique visitors and 4.7 million page views per month. Needless to say, we have a community that is passionate about their skills and are always looking for great resources like yours.
Your integration in the Resource Map may increase foot traffic and mail orders, encourage brand loyalty through a consistent presence on BurdaStyle and is an affordable way to reach a vibrant and growing community!
This is an opportunity your favorite sewing store, or your own business, should not pass up! Take advantage of our special $30 dollar discount today! To sign up, visit http://bit.ly/ResourceMap.
If you have further questions, or would like to request a downloadable .pdf advertisement to hand to your favorite stores, please e-mail me at david@burdastyle.com.
Best,
David and The BurdaStyle Team
Oct 28, 2009, 11.15 AMby IvoryNoire
“- Have a favorite local sewing store you think others should know about?
If you fall in any of these categories, the BurdaStyle Resource Map is made for you!”
Why do you mention this if the store itself needs to pay to be on the map?
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Oct 28, 2009, 03.55 PMby Alden
We are mentioning this so we can find out good resources for seamstresses and seamsters around the world.
We figure who would know better about quality local stores than you, our avid members. Once we hear about a great store, we will be in contact with them and see if they are interested on being part of the resource map.
We want to create a map that is valuable to everyone, whether you are moving to a new neighborhood or visiting for the weekend and would like to check out, lets say, fabric stores. Imagine how cool it would be if you were visiting Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne, or even Portland OR and you could check out what’s going on there in the sewing and crafting world, how cool would that be?!?!
Oct 28, 2009, 01.19 PMby staticstasy
Well IvoryNoire, it falls under the whole change of philosophy in Burdastyle.. Of course I think this whole “change” was the plan from the beginning, as Burdastyle seems to have been a sort of campaign for Burda so they could get an online community going…
I’m quite disappointed… but of course it was too good to be true.
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Oct 28, 2009, 05.17 PMby Alden
Hey Staticstasy,
I’m sorry that you feel that BurdaStyle was a scheme, because it was never thought of that way. I know everyone was upset about the “change” but certain things had to take effect in order to keep the site going. To run an online community of this dimension requires a lot funds for human resources and bandwidth. We want to offer as many resources as possible for free , e.g. free membership for 260,000+ people to exchange skills, ideas, patterns, etc.
We are asking for people help to find stores because we would like to compile the most comprehensive list of sewing resources out there in the “real world” and we thought that you, our members, might know some quality stores!
We believe that is a win/win situation, members find new resources and the stores get more customers.
If you have any questions, as always, please feel free to emails me!
Oct 29, 2009, 06.33 PMby staticstasy
Sorry about being harsh before but I don’t understand how whoever started Burdastyle couldn’t have seen that there would be expenses at some point in the project. Anyway.
And no that’s fine, I don’t have anything else to ask.
Oct 30, 2009, 11.36 AMby kaitui_kiwi
I think you guys are missing the point: The companies pay (what sounds to me like a very reasonable fee) to be listed on this map/directory, the we can access it to find local sewing resources in our area…sounds like a great way to me to find new places to get awesome fabric and supplies. Great idea BurdaStyle! I only arrived in a new city 5 years ago so the stress of finding new stores to shop for my sewing supplies is still fresh in my mind, I think this will benefit everyone.
Nov 4, 2009, 05.11 AMby Sewinl0ve
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen! I live in a military town where people move in and out constantly so I know how frustrating it is to try to find a good fabric store in a new place. Sadly, there are not many in this town, but I frequent the few locations that do exist and I will definitely share this with the owners of those stores! I just wish we had more fashion fabrics available in NC! I’m tired of the funny looks I get in these country quilt shops when I ask for chiffon!