Ive realised I might need to move with the times.
I don’t have a smart phone, or a card scanner, Im not on Instagram, I barely know what an app is etc
I was wondering if I were to take some kind of plunge, what 1 modern day thing do you have, that helps most with selling your crafts?
Thats a hard question but if I could only keep one it would probably be my iPhone as i can use it as a phone, to browse and use the internet and as a camera. Can even put a kindle app on it and use it as a book during the quiet moments at a craft fair! I don’t really use it for the internet or as a camera as I have a separate camera, an iPad and a laptop which make things easier but its nice to know the back up is there. (BTW I’m very much an Apple type of girl!)
For me it’s my mobile phone. But I know a tablet would do the same as my phone. And it might be easier to use.
I’m in the middle of maybe getting a card reader but I do a lot of fairs and stalls.
I don’t have a smart phone either. I feel like I spend enough time browsing on our trusty desktop and I don’t need any more distractions!
I wish I could use our pc. My other half has super something or rather LED monitor that kills my eyes.
I couldn’t pick just one 
We are very techie in our house and really couldn’t live without my iphone, ipad and laptop 
I suffer from nomophobia (fear of not being connected or being seperated from your smart device) if I’m not in the same room as any of my devices I’m hoping for an apple watch for my birthday to solve this 
I’m the same Donna lol @RedDragonDesigns
It stems from my Dad being a gadget freak. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t playing on a computer or console whilst I was growing up, and now I’m married to a gadgety bloke. We are a right pair.
I love my IPad & iPhone to the moon & back again 
Karen 
My oh is the same Karen @karenscraftybitz we have been known to text each other rather than walk into another room lol Especially if one of us is near the kettle and the other isn’t 
Now there’s and idea … A Smart Kettle! Someone needs to invent that right now
I grew up with gadgets too, and spent many happy hours programming games into our zx spectrum
Googe ‘iKettle’ 
Hi Di, I don’t have a smartphone either. I also like my desktop.
I grew up in a house full of tech - my dad designed and built computers for a living and worked from home. I played chuckie egg on a bbc computer, remember a mobile phone the size of a house brick and spent my teenage summers soldering computer boards so you’d think I’d be a gadget freak but no I can’t be bothered with any of that, give me some hand tools and I’m a happy bunny. Donna wouldn’t be able to cope with this but I have been known to go down the allotment with just a flask of tea, leaving the mobile at home for a couple of hours of solitude and digging.
So what one thing helps me sell my craft? Well I sell far more in person than I do online and I tend to take more card payments than cash (probably something to do with the price point I work at) so I would go with my card reader and the pretty basic mobile phone that goes with it. But if you don’t do many fairs/ markets you might find you don’t actually need a card reader.
Now if it would only make the tea too
Lol Sasha, just the thought brought me out in a cold sweat
I’m actually on my phone now as I’ve switched my laptop off to come down and cook tea 
The rest of the family have laptops but I am hopeless with them, they seem to do things when I barely touch them! If I have to use one I would rather plug a mouse in. To be fair I am at home quite a lot so I have access to the pc and I really don’t need portable internet access. I am quite happy with my £5 phone for occasional texting.
I don’t have a smart phone as I wouldn’t use it for anything else other than making phone calls or texting occassionally. Smart phones for me are either too big for my small hands to deal with I tried using ‘adopted daughter’ and it hurt just trying to hold it.
The smaller smart phones well they ain’t that great for my eyes too small a screen too small text etc etc.
I prefer my pc as it’s stays in once place and doesn’t get damaged like a laptop can without being moved around. I do use my laptop but then again the screen although quite large is not as large as my pc screen.
I wouldn’t do without my pentax camera or my little compact Samsung.
I don’t really need too much tec however we do have quite a lot but it’s due to DH and ‘adopted daughter’. DH works in the IT industry for a very large American IT company.
I don’t feel the need to be continually connected. I pick my moments ie when I get up, lunch time and before bed are when I check my emails and forums. Sometimes if I’m not doing much else I will check in and also do research. But I hate to be chained to being online it would drive me insane lol
I know what you mean about laptops! I also have to plug a mouse in! I am even more of a dinosaur, I don’t text!
I felt the same a few weeks ago but then I got my first smartphone. I like it, it’s easy to use, the camera is surprisingly good and I’m now on Instagram, but to be honest it hasn’t revolutionized my world. All in all a bit meh…
Love Sam x
I use my iPhone for everything. I only ever use a real computer when I’m at work. I detest Windows so only use a Mac laptop at home- don’t have any other kind of computer at home. I used to have an iPad but stopped using it a few years ago when I got an iPhone & now I have a 6s and its a million times faster than the iPad ever was.
I like to be connected- I use my phone for everything. Social media, emails, taking photos, whatsapp, selling on folksy/Etsy/artfinder, buying on other sites, BBC news app, for just keeping notes, setting alarms- everything!!! The thing I do the least is phone people! I don’t have a landline phone connected mind…can’t think of anything more annoying. Haha my mobile does live on silent though. I can’t stand the noises they make!
I favour my pc, I prefer the size, the ‘proper’ keyboard and mouse. I have a smart phone but only use it as an emergency phone for calling or texting when I’m out on my own. I was fed up of having to constantly recharge the battery even though I wasn’t using it, I ended up getting my son to take off everything I didn’t use (including wifi), now I just have the phone and camera (just in case I need it when I’m out). I never use it when I’m at home, I use the landline. … the battery now lasts a week or more
I do have a tablet but generally only use it for checking emails, messages etc. If I want to reply to anyone I usually use the pc.
My daughter, on the other hand, uses her phone and tablet for just about everything. She doesn’t have a landline connected (she accidentally cut through the wires when she was decorating and never fixed it).
