Download or read book Handmade to Sell written by Kelly Rand and published by Potter Craft. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business advice for enterprising crafters, by crafters No one knows more about helping handmade businesses than Hello Craft, the nonprofit trade association for crafty entrepreneurs. Written by the directors of Hello Craft, Handmade to Sell is the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative guide for DIYers seeking to learn every aspect of selling, marketing, and branding. Based on the Summit of Awesome, Hello Craft’s annual business conference, this book covers topics including: • Developing successful product lines • Copyrights and trademarks • Taking perfect product shots • Using analytics to boost your online sales • Selling at fairs, shows, and other retail outlets • Diversifying income through licensing and teaching • Hiring and outsourcing Throughout, you’ll find expert tips and invaluable strategies and advice from some of the most successful indie crafters and artisans. Whether you’ve only contemplated selling your crafts or want to grow an existing handmade business, Handmade to Sell offers essential guidance for anyone who has ever dreamed of making a living from what they create.
Download or read book Grow Your Handmade Business written by Kari Chapin and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to make a living from your craft? Learn how to map out a financial plan, expand production, automate distribution, address legal matters, and much more. Start growing your business beyond the dining room table and leave your day job behind.
Download or read book Start Your Own Arts and Crafts Business written by Entrepreneur Press and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of spending the day working on your favorite craft? Would you like to make money in the process? If you’re ready to take your crafting to the next level, your favorite hobby can become a fun, lucrative, homebased business. Hundreds of thousands of working artisans earn their entire income from the crafts they produce—selling on eBay, at their own online stores, in retail stores, at carts and kiosks, or at craft shows and street fairs. With this expert advice, you can become one of them. This comprehensive guide is packed with useful information from crafts professionals and dozens of resources, such as helpful organizations, publications, software and websites. It covers all aspects of a crafts business: • Exploring the market and choosing a profitable niche • Setting up a workshop that’s conducive to business success • Making your products available in retail stores, carts and kiosks, craft shows and other local markets • Selling your products on eBay, Half.com, Overstock.com, Amazon.com and other global online marketplaces • Advertising and promotion to get the word out about your crafts • Record keeping, taxes, accounting and other business essentials
Download or read book How to Start a Home based Craft Business written by Kenn Oberrecht and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying craft business from your home From business and financial planning to marketing your business both online and through traditional outlets, this comprehensive guide provides practical solutions and solid advice on how to tap your creative skills to earn a living. Learn all about business plans, finding supplies on the Internet, publicity, zoning ordinances, and much more. Whatever your goals are, join the thousands of successful crafters, artists, and entrepreneurs, and experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based craft business. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Market Survey Form Estimated Start-Up Costs Profit and Loss Projection/Report Balance Sheet Sample Invoice
Download or read book Supermaker written by Jaime Schmidt and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supermaker is a guide to business and career development by Jaime Schmidt: acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement. In Supermaker, she shares how you too can start or grow your own business with advice on branding, product development, social media marketing, scaling, PR, and customer engagement, all based on her own hard-won mastery. In just seven years, Jaime Schmidt went from making natural products in her Portland, Oregon, kitchen to turning her brand into a household name and selling her company to Unilever—without sacrificing the integrity of her product or her creative vision. • Readers learn how to get ahead on their own terms and while maintaining their commitment to fair and sustainable principles. • A valuable resource to the ever-growing community of business owners and entrepreneurs who want to go from maker to magnate. • Candid advice from an industry disruptor. Following her growth from farmers' market stand to international brand, Jaime's book is a riveting mix of inspiration, the honest airing of mistakes, and indispensable instruction. Supermaker empowers and unites the next generation of entrepreneurs. • A go-to guide for the passion-to-profit journey. • The perfect read for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creatives, and anyone with an interest in natural products, selling your products online, retail strategy, and digital marketing. • Great for anyone who enjoyed Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie, Craft, Inc: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco, and The Girls' Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur by Caitlin Friedman.
Download or read book Online Marketing for Your Craft Business written by Hilary Pullen and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For crafty entrepreneurs, a highly focused guide to using social media and blogging to measurably impact your sales. If you want to earn income from your creative crafts, social media and craft marketing expert Hilary Pullen will help you develop a 360 degree strategy for online networking, outlining the resources and time you need to commit. She will take you through how to identify who you want to connect with, where you will connect with them, and what type of things you want to share and say to them—all with relevant examples and case studies. You’ll see that with a little planning and management, you can learn to love blogging and social media—and experience it not as a chore but an additional way to make use of your natural creativity! “I know what it takes first hand to market your crafts online and Hilary’s book is one of the most detailed marketing books out there for creative business owners . . . If you are looking for a marketing guide to help your craft business thrive, then you need to pick up Hilary’s book.” —Timothy Adam, Handmadeology
Download or read book Starting a Craft Business written by Millicent Lownes-Jackson and published by A Business of Your Own. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting A Craft Business is a fresh and innovative inspirational business guidebook for individuals who love to make handcrafted or art items and want to make money while enjoying their talent. Whether the craft artisan is a retired school teacher, vacation bible school craft teacher, disabled professional, or simply a lover of any form of art or craft, this book will help to make their dreams and aspirations of business ownership become a reality.
Download or read book How to Show Sell Your Crafts written by Torie Jayne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using the workspaces, shops, salons, and 'through-the-keyhole' profiles of some of the world's most successful crafters, readers will learn the best ways to merchandise and sell their items online, at craft fairs, markets, pop-up events, exhibitions, and in shops. Plus, you'll learn how to build a personality-driven brand, create a ... blog or website, improve your photography skills, and analyze your results to help move your business forward into the future"--
Download or read book Crafts to Make and Sell written by Carol Dahlstrom and published by Better Homes & Gardens Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book containing dozens of craft ideas that can be made and marketed from the home.
Download or read book Crafter s Market written by Abigail Patner Glassenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn Your Crafting Into a Career! All over the world, creatives are turning their hobby into their livelihoods--and Crafter's Market offers the competitive edge you need to make your craft your career. This comprehensive guide will introduce you to a new world of possibilities for taking your craft to the next level. To help you on your journey, this edition is updated with fresh resources, such as: • Over 250 new listings for complete, up-to-date contacts and submission guidelines for more than 1,500 craft market resources, including craft shows, publishers, marketplaces, and more! • Informative, inspirational articles on building your brand, customer communication, teaching classes, getting press coverage, photographing your goods, and more, from successful craft business owners. • Actions you can take today to grow your business now, no matter your creative medium--quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, papercraft, or jewelry making! Whether you're looking to expand your online presence or you're just beginning to think about how to turn your weekend hobby into a side business, Crafter's Market is the complete resource for creative professionals.
Download or read book Craft a Life You Love written by Amy Tangerine and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to focus your creative energy to make things—and make things happen. In this blend of memoir and hardworking handbook, creativity and craft maven Amy Tangerine shows how to find your flow, maintain a positive mindset, and cultivate a rich and fulfilling life by focusing on what truly matters and implementing small yet powerful changes. Chapters explore how to craft the soul, craft the right mindset, craft the right environment, craft good habits, rediscover your creative mojo, and maintain momentum, with each section offering exercises for taking your creative practice to the next level. For anyone who has felt disconnected from their creativity or has had trouble saving a space for their passions, Craft a Life You Love will teach you how to make time for creativity each and every day.
Download or read book Craft Inc written by Meg Ilasco and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft, Inc. is the hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money. Pro crafter Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth interviews with such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler, Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, and Jill Bliss provide inspiration and practical advice. Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. paves the way for today's creative minds to become tomorrow's trendsetters.
Download or read book Craft Business written by Kenn Oberrecht and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive yet practical step-by-step explanations give readers the tools to launch and grow a home-based craft business. Worksheets, quizzes, and checklists help to turn dreams into reality.
Download or read book Creating a Successful Craft Business written by Robert Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Written by two experienced craftspeople who have been through the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of running a crafts business, readers will learn, step by step, how to negotiate with bankers, choose the ideal retail location, promote the business on-line, expand into lucrative new markets, and much more. 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.
Download or read book Mastering the Craft A Comprehensive Guide to Becoming a Professional Barista written by Kurniawan Arif Maspul and published by Literasi Nusantara Abadi Grup. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mastering the Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Becoming a Professional Barista” is an informative book that provides a detailed overview of the skills, knowledge, and qualities required to become a successful barista. The book covers various topics, including coffee brewing and extraction, customer service, business management and operations, marketing and branding, and career development.
Download or read book Craft and the Creative Economy written by S. Luckman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed demand for the handmade.
Download or read book Making A Living written by Sophie Rochester and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a Living has been carefully crafted to support anyone looking for practical, hands-on advice and inspiring stories to motivate them to make their dream business into a reality. Inspiring stories from leatherworkers to florists, basket weavers to artists, bee-keepers to brewers, will bring bags of real world advice and inspiration for those wanting to take their first steps into this new artisanal economy. With more time at home than ever before, the restorative distraction of crafts and making has seen a mainstream resurgence. So too has the desire to 'make a living' from creating handmade products to sell, or to sell our creative skills. We are fleeing our desks to become brewers, bakers and pickle-makers. This new wave of at-home entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to promote their businesses and PayPal and Shopify to manage their payments. Technology-led businesses are transforming the way in which offline maker businesses are operating - and business is booming. From the founder of Yodomo, the online learning platform for arts and crafts, and with chapters on market research, valuing and pricing your work, branding, marketing and sales as well as accounting fundamentals and legal considerations, this is a step by step guide to getting your idea off the ground - as a side hustle or as your next major career move. These makers will be in the UK and the US and include those shipping their products worldwide.
