ola!

a few monthes ago i moved from berlin to portugal and am now selling my stuff from here. it works quite well and i am happy to see my customers in germany are not hesitating to buy despite the distance!

however, since moving i noticed that basicall ALL customers ar either based in germany or austria. despite supercheap national shipping i did not have one single customer from portugal!!

i am wondering if you are having a similar experience?

I would like to lobby for a stronger international focus at dawanda to aquire more international customers. certainly there are several ways of doing that:

- shop-search according to geographical criteria (such as as etsy)
- more language-options
- country/region/city-specific lists (such as already exist for trends)
etc...

what do you think? what are your experiences? do you have more suggestions?

best *** nora

Hallo Nora!
I notice the same fact.
I'm Francesca and I live in Italy.
I started selling on Dawanda last February and I ever sell in Germany or France but never in Italy..
and I know ,Here in Italy lots of people are using dawanda...
so I'm wondering why..

greetings
Francesca

hi francesca!

interesting...it seems people in some countries do not like to buy via internet, or...i dont know!

what i will do now is to use some dawanda merchandise (bags, buttons, stickers) and to distribute them at the markets where i sell. may be then people get more conscious and willing to buy at dawanda.

i guess that is the best thing i can do at the moment. and then, may be the dawanda-team starts to promote itself more internationally - lets hope!

greetings from porto!
nora

Hi Nora! you give me a very great idea !! :O))
I will do the same during my markets here in Italy !!
Thanks a lot !
Have a nice week end!
Francesca

http://blog.dawanda.com/2009/09/12/dawanda-friends-in-portugal/