You also have an option in town to transfer strat gold in cRPG gold (rate is 1:10n i think).
If you have a lot of time and if you can check strat browser often you should try to make a long trip between two fief, you craft in a low priced one (crafting for 3 gold) then you travel to other side of the map, jumping from fief to fief, avoiding mountain and rivers and beware of bandits.
Or if you just want to check strat one or two times a day, you should find two short distance fiefs (crafting at 3g and selling at 25g) and you make daily travel (with this way you can make around 500g a day.
There is some thread about that (from Slamz if i remember)