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Creating a Successful Crafts Business

From writing a business plan and financing an idea to choosing the most cost-efficient production method and best-suited sales approach, Creating a Successful Crafts Business provides a sound blueprint for turning a beloved hobby into a lucrative career.  Filled with the infectious spirit of people who have “been there,” this down-to-earth book will bring fledging craft businesses to new levels of profits and success.

 

The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet
This book is choc full of great information and resources aimed at getting your craft business online and making it work once it's there. Also, all the links in this book go where they are supposed to, so I wasn't frustrated by a load of error 404s. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in selling crafts or artwork online.

500 Tips for Marketing Your Crafts
This is a collection of marketing tips by and for artists and craftspeople to help you sell what you make. This book includes hundreds of tips about how to find craft fairs, how to get into them, and how to survive them and make money. Also covered is taking credit cards, avoiding theft, taking your own photographs, making your own display and anchoring it, and traveling to shows by road or air.

How to Start a Jewelry Business and Make Money Selling Jewelry
Sell Your Jewelry is a complete guide to starting a jewelry business. This book includes all you need to know to establish your company, build a customer base, and develop a profitable business selling your handmade jewelry. Written in plain English, the concepts are easy to understand and apply, regardless of your level of experience. In addition to the basics of running a business, this book teaches secret tips to ensure your success.

Crafts and Craft Shows: How to Make Money
For many crafters, the proliferation of craft shows presents an opportunity to do enjoyable work while making money. However, the craft business is like any other small business, with all the pitfalls. Kadubec, who with his wife ran a successful business selling baskets at shows for several years, here gives us the benefit of his experience. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes information about applying to shows and dealing with promoters.

 

 

How to Market and Sell Your Art, Music, Photographs, & Handmade Crafts Online

You are creative, you are an artist or a photographer, you have a hobby or craft, something you absolutely love to do, and you are good at it. But you may be asking yourself, How do I market my work? How do I turn this into a real money making business? The answer lies between the covers of this new book.

 

The Basic Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts
Filled with a great deal of practical information, this little guide can teach you all the ins and outs of selling your arts and crafts. The Basic Guide shows you how to find buyers; price your work; succeed at craft shows; sell to stores, galleries, trade shows, and corporations; build a mail-order business; deal with basic business and financial considerations; and use promotional materials.

Pricing Guidelines for Arts & Crafts
This book is chocked full of information not only from the author but from others in the craft industry. It's filled with practical advice on a variety of craft genres directly from artisans who work in those fields. From in depth interviews to valuable tricks and tidbits, this is a must have resource for anyone who is serious about their craft.

 

The Savvy Crafters Guide To Success: Turn Your Crafts Into A Career
"The Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success" guides crafters through the maze of the world of crafting with pertinent information on how to build and maintain a craft business; how to teach the best arts and craft classes; how to write regularly for craft/ home publications; how to get your designs sold; and, explains the ins and outs of the business of crafts.

 

The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line
It's an exciting new world for crafters. Handmade is hip, creativity is what the market wants, and there are many profitable sales opportunities that didn't exist a few short years ago. The Handmade Marketplace breaks down and makes sense of the global possibilities for marketing and selling crafts.