I've had a web site for about 5 years that I use all the time. Then, I advertise the web site.
Do NOT! think it costs a lot of money.
I have 3 resitered .com names, a ten page web site, a nice email program and web forwarding. I have to renew this month and I think all of it costs me $216.00/year.
I use Network Solutions.
www.netsol.com.
All you need is a camera to uplaod your photos. You use all of their programs to manipulate your site and could do it a hundred times a day if you wanted.
You can do WHATEVER you want to your site! It's YOUR SITE! No website maintainance, or paying some web-head to do it for you that doesn't understand what you want to convey.
Believe me, if I can figure it out, anybody can!
Check out and see what I've done on my own,
www.andersenforge.com.
There's a zillion places to advertise your site. Ad links to other people's sites with link exchange! Everytime you write an email or answer this or that, sign with your website address!
I advertise monthly in a magazine of national publication.
If a person sees the ad, the goes to the website and sees something they like, and THEN goes ahead and contacts me, they have practically already sold themselves!
Karl B. Andersen
www.andersenforge.com
And Brian is 100% correct, customers cruise these forums looking for new makers and knives as they get completed to buy them before anyone else beats them to it!