At the moment facebook is the only outlet for my little business. I think the trouble with limiting it the way I have is that it takes a bit of time for the wave of 'likes' to spread outside my circle of friends. Especially as I am not the sort of person who will keep inviting people over and over. On the other hand, because it is just me and I make things to order, if my audience was huge I wouldn't be able to keep up with demand.
At the moment I am concentrating on making stock to sell at my kids school christmas fair but after christmas I will be shifting my focus to opening an ebay shop. My brother has an ebay shop and does very well through it. He also has his own website which he paid for (£500) and which I couldnt afford to do but it depends on your turnover I guess! What he did say to me was to buy a domain name now, even if I dont have a website yet as this will help when I do eventually (maybe) get one, people can see from my domain name that I have been trading for a decent length of time which makes me more trustworthy to buy from (apparently, its all beyond me tbh!).