Download or read book How to Make Money at Craft Shows written by Mallory Whitfield and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wanted to sell your handmade crafts or artwork at local craft fairs, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you've taken the first step and have tried selling your art at a craft show or two, but now you're looking for ideas on how to sell more, how to make your booth more appealing to customers and where to find more venues to sell your handmade goods? You've come to the right place! I've been selling my own handmade creations, as well as the work of other artists, at a variety of craft shows and other events since 2004. I've learned a lot of lessons the hard way, and now I'm sharing them here with you so that you can learn from my experiences! In this book, I'll cover the basics of getting started selling at craft fairs, as well as how to design a great looking booth, how to give outstanding customer service & sell more and even how to find and create additional events at which to sell your handmade work. WHAT IT INCLUDES: - how to define your target market - where to find good shows - how much should I spend on a booth fee at a show? - how to make your booth look great - promoting your show & getting your customers there - my craft show tips & tricks - dealing with crazy weather & unexpected events - theft prevention - craft show supply checklist - how to give great customer service - how to use craft shows to create after-the-show sales - alternative venues to sell your work, beyond traditional craft shows - how to create your own events to sell at - tracking your inventory - how to create a personal & business spending plan - big hunkin' list of craft show resources WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: This book will be most useful for someone new to selling at craft shows. I do cover more advanced topics as well though, including how to define your target market, visual merchandising, inventory tracking, and creating a business spending plan. The book includes worksheets along the way to help you. The information in this book is based on my experiences, selling in the United States, mostly in Louisiana. However, most of the information contained here is useful to anyone around the world who is interested in setting up a booth at craft shows, festivals or conventions. WHY I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT: I did my first craft show in 2004. It was the Alternative Media Expo, put on by Antigravity Magazine here in New Orleans. I sold a few things, and learned a LOT of things. And I haven't looked back! I've done all sorts of events since then. I have sold regularly at the Frenchmen Art Market, and have done festivals around the New Orleans area including Bayou Boogaloo, Gretna Heritage Festival, Freret Market, New Orleans Earth Day Festival, and many, many more. As one of the founding members of the New Orleans Craft Mafia, I've even organized a variety of events, both with the group and on my own. As a group, we've created a monthly art market and the annual Last Stop Shop holiday market. On my own, I've also hosted home shopping parties, trunk shows and pop-up shops. In 2007, as one of the winners of Etsy's Upcycling contest, I even traveled cross-country to San Francisco to participate in Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire!
Download or read book How to Sell What You Make written by Paul Gerhards and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pointers for getting started, selling, exhibiting at trade shows, pricing, and marketing to turn a hobby into a profitable business.
Download or read book How to Make Real Money Selling Books written by Brian Jud and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide book market generates almost $90 billion annually, and more than half of those sales are made in non-bookstore outlets such as discount stores, airport shops, gift stores, supermarkets, and warehouse clubs. How to Make Real Money Selling Books provides a proven strategy for selling books to these enterprises. You will learn about developing a product strategy, conducting test marketing, contacting prospective buyers, promoting your product, selling to niche markets, and much, much more.
Download or read book Make a Fortune Selling to Women written by Connie Podesta and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Want to Close The Deal? Want to Make The Sale? Want to Retain More Customers? Are you selling to the dominant economic force in the country?
There are 190 million of them in the U.S. alone. They have $4.4 trillion in collective buying power. They purchase 85% of all products and services, and they influence most of the rest of the purchases. They are responsible for 85% of the checks written. Forty-seven percent of them are stockholders. Who are they? Women.
In Make a Fortune Selling to Women, Connie Podesta combines psychology and sales tactics to create a how-to guide for how to sell to women and how to market to women.
With a lively voice and no-nonsense tone that both men and women will appreciate, Podesta offers specific tips for overcoming the big five Deal Breakers:
- She doesn't want to play the game
- She doesn't think the salesperson views her as a legitimate decision maker
- She doesn't like the salesperson
- She doesn't trust the salesperson
- She doesn't think the salesperson is the right person for the job
Riddled with revealing anecdotes, Make a Fortune Selling to Women describes the male and female approach to the buying experience--without being condescending to either gender. And both salesmen and saleswomen will rely on this book to help them secure more sales with women. Discover exactly the right approach when selling to women and use it to close the deal.
Download or read book How to Sell Anything to Anybody written by Joe Girard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Girard was an example of a young man with perseverance and determination. Joe began his working career as a shoeshine boy. He moved on to be a newsboy for the Detroit Free Press at nine years old, then a dishwasher, a delivery boy, stove assembler, and home building contractor. He was thrown out of high school, fired from more than forty jobs, and lasted only ninety-seven days in the U.S. Army. Some said that Joe was doomed for failure. He proved them wrong. When Joe started his job as a salesman with a Chevrolet agency in Eastpointe, Michigan, he finally found his niche. Before leaving Chevrolet, Joe sold enough cars to put him in the Guinness Book of World Records as 'the world's greatest salesman' for twelve consecutive years. Here, he shares his winning techniques in this step-by-step book, including how to: o Read a customer like a book and keep that customer for life o Convince people reluctant to buy by selling them the right way o Develop priceless information from a two-minute phone call o Make word-of-mouth your most successful tool Informative, entertaining, and inspiring, HOW TO SELL ANYTHING TO ANYBODY is a timeless classic and an indispensable tool for anyone new to the sales market.
Download or read book How to Make Big Money Selling written by Joe Gandolfo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details all the techniques and methods of high-profit sales, discussing the right selling situations, sales approaches, personal appearance, answering objections, closing the deal, and after-closing services
Download or read book Make More Money Selling Your Art written by Eric Rhoads and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many mistakenly believe an artist can succeed with artistic talent alone. But Eric Rhoads knows that there are many brilliant artists who will never be discovered and never sell any artwork. Eric Rhoads is an outdoor (plein air) landscape painter, a portrait artist, and the world's foremost art marketing expert, having guided thousands of artists to success. He has founded numerous companies, and marketed both products and art. Eric is publisher and founder of several influential and nationally distributed art magazines and newsletters, as well as popular conferences and events.Many of today's most brilliant artists remain unknown. Their plight is not new. Today, Vincent Van Gogh's works are in incredibly high demand; in fact, his portrait of Doctor Gachet recently sold for $82.5 million. But in his lifetime Van Gogh sold only two of his 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh truly was a starving artist.Ending the stereotype of the starving artist is this book's essential purpose. It is Eric Rhoads' mission that artists no longer suffer this fate. This book will unleash your inner marketer. Under Eric's guidance, you will learn timeless marketing techniques that will allow you to live your dreams, no matter how lofty and unobtainable you think they may be.
Download or read book How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell written by James Dillehay and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your handmade goods struggling to find buyers? Learn effective tactics to make that cash register ring. Are your sales humming, but you're operating in the red? Are you making high-quality items but can't seem to move enough product? Is your current online store failing to attract customers? With decades of experience as a master craftsman and educator, savvy marketer James Dillehay's work has been featured in shops and galleries, at competitive shows, and online on Etsy and Amazon. Now he's here to share how he cracked the code on what to charge, and how to package your merchandise for maximum profitability. How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell is a modern-day roadmap for rate-setting strategies in the competitive handmade-products industry. With oodles of real-world examples, Dillehay's time-tested techniques will help you refine your presentation and understand your market to hit the monetary sweet spot. And by following his commonsense approach, the fruits of your labor will reach an excited audience eagerly clamoring for your next masterpiece. In How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell, you'll discover: Innovative ways to make your handcrafted wares stand out over other sellers How to set prices higher while keeping shoppers clicking that buy button Logical approaches to position "one-of-a-kind" items in the premium dollar range Tax secrets to help you maximize your home business deductions Methods for spotting trends to skyrocket profits, and much, much more! How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell is a no-nonsense guidebook for anyone looking to optimize their online venture. If you like straightforward direction, experience-based suggestions, and filling your coffers to overflowing, then you'll love James Dillehay's treasure trove of advice. Buy How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell to earn what you deserve today!
Download or read book SPIN Selling written by Neil Rackham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True or false? In selling high-value products or services: 'closing' increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; open questions are more effective than closed questions. All false, says this provocative book. Neil Rackham and his team studied more than 35,000 sales calls made by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years. Their findings revealed that many of the methods developed for selling low-value goods just don‘t work for major sales. Rackham went on to introduce his SPIN-Selling method. SPIN describes the whole selling process: Situation questions Problem questions Implication questions Need-payoff questions SPIN-Selling provides you with a set of simple and practical techniques which have been tried in many of today‘s leading companies with dramatic improvements to their sales performance.
Download or read book Selling Your Crafts Online written by Michael R. Miller and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SELLING YOUR CRAFTS ONLINE Sell your handmade crafts and artwork worldwide on the Web! Do you sell your own handmade crafts or artwork? There’s a whole world of customers beyond what you find at crafts shows and malls. For the first time in history, there’s a great way to reach them: the Internet! In Selling Your Crafts Online, Michael Miller guides you step by step through succeeding in the world’s biggest online crafts marketplaces and attracting new customers where millions of them already hang out. Miller offers crafts-specific tips and advice on everything from creating listings to getting a fair price, processing payments to providing outstanding service. No matter what you make or where you already sell it, you can earn a better living if you also sell online. This guide will help you get started, get successful, and stay successful! -- Create a quick “mini” business plan that improves your chances of success -- Discover what sells best online–and what doesn’t -- Predict your costs, see what competitors are doing, and set your best price -- Write compelling listings and take great photos, even if you’re not a professional writer or photographer -- Create an attractive online presence on Etsy, eBay, and other sites -- Discover and compare growing online marketplaces you never knew existed -- Decide whether it makes sense to create your own craft-selling website -- Set yourself up to accept credit cards, PayPal, or other payment services -- Pack, seal, and ship your merchandise safely without overspending -- Answer questions, handle complaints, and offer guarantees -- Track your inventory -- Promote your business on Pinterest and beyond -- Measure your success and learn from experience
Download or read book Jeffrey Gitomer s 21 5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling written by Jeffrey Gitomer and published by Bard Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are universal laws of selling that determine whether you succeed, or don’t succeed — whether you earn enough to enjoy the lifestyle you want or struggle to make ends meet. When you align the wind with your sails, you move effortlessly across the water. When your sails are out of alignment, you flounder and go nowhere. If you align your thinking and actions with these powerful laws of selling, you will be more effective and efficient. You will encounter less friction, require less energy, and get bigger results faster. Here's a sampling of Jeffrey’s 21.5 Laws of Selling: • Deliver Value First • Ask Before Telling • Communicate in Terms of Them • Become Your Own Brand • Earn Referrals and Testimonials without Asking • Create Loyal Customers These 21.5 Laws are the rock foundation of selling. They may be invisible but they are undeniable — and unbreakable. If you're just getting started in selling, you will find the Laws invaluable. Whether or not you learn them and follow them will make or break your career. If you’ve been in sales for a while, you will find yourself saying, "I haven’t been doing that." "I knew that! How did forget?" When we break the Laws we pay the price. Our sales suffer. Our bank account takes a hit. It’s an effort to get out of bed and make a sales call, to do our best work — work that is aligned with the Laws. Use Jeffrey’s Laws of Selling to recharge your enthusiasm and redirect your actions back to what really works.
Download or read book How to Make Money by Selling Land written by Pat Porter and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can help you learn how to have a better chance of finding property, buying it, and doing the things necessary to sell it for profit. Just do what we do.Here's how it started. I was driving to look at a new property a client called me to list in north Louisiana. I was thinking that this 38-acre listing was right in the sweet spot for the size tracts that many people want for rural home sites in our region. I wondered if this tract could be bought at a price where we could improve it and make some money on it just like the......well, just like the last several tracts I had bought over the last year! I had bought, personally and occasionally with a couple of partners, 12 different deals just like this. Well, not identical deals in size and use, but similar in that they were smaller tracts ranging from 12 to 80 acres. I'd never really considered looking at my buying and selling in a context of time and lumping all the deals together into information that I could pass along to others. But this was the idea I just had. Why not talk about how I do it? Why not break down some of the steps I take? Why not explain the things I do to buy and sell a tract for profit? The bite-sized pieces of information could be useful to others who wanted to do the same.I consider myself somewhat of an expert in the rural land brokerage business. I mean, heck...I do own and manage a large regional land brokerage dealing with millions of dollars in listings each year. I do know my way around most types of land tracts. I haven't, however, thought of myself as an expert land investor. Yes, I've been involved in the purchase and sale of thousands of acres - and all made money! - but that's just me doing what I do. An expert? No. Something to teach? Maybe.So, here it is. My steps, thoughts, and actions on how I managed to buy and sell 12 different small tracts in about 18 months...all at a profit. There were two large deals - one over 1000 acres and another at almost 5000 acres - that I was also involved in at the same time. Those deals are different than the 12 I'll use for discussion here. Those deals require a different level of funding and knowledge that may be more than you want to tackle. So, for here, we'll focus on the 12 smaller tracts and see what we can learn.The following chapters are written in a way that they can be plucked out and used as separate pieces of information that can provide a needed piece of guidance along your way. Absorb it all as a whole or pick and choose what you want.
Download or read book How to Make Money in Stocks A Winning System in Good Times and Bad Fourth Edition written by William J. O'Neil and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-04-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Anyone can learn to invest wisely with this bestselling investment system! Through every type of market, William J. O’Neil’s national bestseller, How to MakeMoney in Stocks, has shown over 2 million investors the secrets to building wealth.O’Neil’s powerful CAN SLIM® Investing System—a proven 7-step process for minimizingrisk and maximizing gains—has influenced generations of investors. Based on a major study of market winners from 1880 to 2009, this expandededition gives you: Proven techniques for finding winning stocks before they make big price gains Tips on picking the best stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs to maximize your gains 100 new charts to help you spot today’s most profitable trends PLUS strategies to help you avoid the 21 mostcommon investor mistakes! “I dedicated the 2004 Stock Trader’s Almanac to Bill O’Neil: ‘His foresight,innovation, and disciplined approach to stock market investing will influenceinvestors and traders for generations to come.’” —Yale Hirsch, publisher and editor, Stock Trader’s Almanac andauthor of Let’s Change the World Inc. “Investor’s Business Daily has provided a quarter-century of great financialjournalism and investing strategies.” —David Callaway, editor-in-chief, MarketWatch “How to Make Money in Stocks is a classic. Any investor serious about makingmoney in the market ought to read it.” —Larry Kudlow, host, CNBC’s "The Kudlow Report"
Download or read book How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell written by James Dillehay and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to price crafts and things you make to sell with this easy-to-follow manual. Discover formulas and strategies to make your craft prices more profitable, when selling retail or wholesale, online or to stores and at craft shows. If you have been considering starting a home business with things to make to sell or you are already selling crafts but losing money, you need “How to Price Crafts.” What's in it for YOU? Formulas and examples of pricing crafts when selling retail or wholesale, online or off Stand out from the crowd with 10 competitive ways to price crafts Get 15 strategies for how to price crafts higher by increasing perceived value Learn how to price crafts that are one-of-a-kind items Guarantee that your craft prices are really earning you a profit Find examples of how to keep records so you can quickly learn how to price crafts as you make them Boost your cash flow income so you will never run out of money to run your craft business Get 12 sources for buying craft supplies at the lowest possible costs Increase output of things to make to sell with a more efficient workspace Save money at tax time with more than 40 overlooked tax deductions from your craft business And much more about how to price crafts that you probably never imagined would help your craft business’ bottom line
Download or read book The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience written by Carmine Gallo and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you'll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs's performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets in 18 "scenes," including: Develop a messianic sense of purpose Reveal the Conquering hero Channel your inner Zen Stage your presentation with props Make it look effortless With this revolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way. “No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.” —Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group “Now you can learn from the best there is—both Jobs and Gallo. No matter whether you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and reread this book with the same enthusiasm that people bring to their iPods." —David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave
Download or read book The Science of Selling written by David Hoffeld and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success Blending cutting-edge research in social psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, The Science of Selling shows you how to align the way you sell with how our brains naturally form buying decisions, dramatically increasing your ability to earn more sales. Unlike other sales books, which primarily rely on anecdotal evidence and unproven advice, Hoffeld’s evidence-based approach connects the dots between science and situations salespeople and business leaders face every day to help you consistently succeed, including proven ways to: - Engage buyers’ emotions to increase their receptiveness to you and your ideas - Ask questions that line up with how the brain discloses information - Lock in the incremental commitments that lead to a sale - Create positive influence and reduce the sway of competitors - Discover the underlying causes of objections and neutralize them - Guide buyers through the necessary mental steps to make purchasing decisions Packed with advice and anecdotes, The Science of Selling is an essential resource for anyone looking to succeed in today's cutthroat selling environment, advance their business goals, or boost their ability to influence others. **Named one of The 20 Most Highly-Rated Sales Books of All Time by HubSpot
Download or read book How to Sell Your Crafts Online written by Derrick Sutton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 400,000 sellers on Etsy, how can you make YOUR shop stand out and increase your sales? This is a key question for many crafters and artists who are selling online these days. Now here are all the answers and much more from author and Etsy seller Derrick Sutton. Based on Sutton's self-published guide, and drawn from his practical experience, you will learn how to boost your Etsy sales, attract more customers, and expand your online presence. He shares his proven online sales and marketing knowledge in an easily accessible format, complete with simple actions steps at the end of each chapter. Learn how to completely optimize your Etsy shop, website, or blog, and much more. Some of the topics covered include: -How to design a catchy Etsy banner -How to gain an instant analysis of your shop and where you need to focus your efforts -A crash course on photographing your items and key mistakes to avoid class -Fail-safe copywriting secrets -How to take advantage of Etsy's forums, Treasury, and more -The effective way to use Facebook and Twitter, and why so many people get it wrong A perfect gift for entrepreneurial artists, How to Sell Your Crafts Online offers crafters practical internet marketing techniques from an experienced Etsy seller that will pave the way for a profitable online business! Praise for Derrick Sutton's e-Guide Crafting Success: "This is really a great guide through the mind-boggling thicket of internet selling. It's so easy to follow and straight forward..." --- Etsy seller jenniferwhitmer "I definitely saw a difference in my sales after doing many of the things suggested." --- Etsy seller mishmishmarket "A true wealth of useful information." --- Etsy seller helixelemental "[The steps are] easily presented, so making changes to your shop can be done instantly as you are reading." -- Licky Drake, HappyGoLicky Custom Silver Jewelry "A tremendous amount of information. I learned more from [this book] than from anything I have purchased in five years." --- Etsy seller HandpaintedGifts
