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

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 441 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 The Everything Guide to Selling Arts Crafts Online written by Kim Solga and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the popularity of Etsy and Pinterest, serious art and craft buyers and sellers are turning to the online world to buy, sell, and promote beautiful homemade creations. But where to start? Solga shows you the pros and cons of all the major art and craft sites, as well as tips for creating your own store online.

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 Sell Your Crafts Online written by James Dillehay and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sell Your Crafts Online" provides a roadmap to the best Internet places for makers of handmade crafts to sell, promote and get reviewed from. Discover over 500 promotion ideas. Get 21 ways to inspire trust on your site pages. Learn how to boost your craft site's search engine traffic with 24 Search Engine Optimization tips. Get the 12 best practices for getting link love from other sites. Find 85 places (including Etsy and eBay) to sell handmade crafts from. Learn where to sell your crafts to stores online from 10 wholesale sites. Promote your indie designed art and crafts from 42 online communities. Get reviews of your craft products on 51 shopping community and blog sites that seek unique products to write about. Syndicate your handmade crafts images, blogs, videos, and articles from 36 networks and discover 16 ideas for getting free publicity in magazines and on TV. Thought about starting your own t-shirt business? "Sell Your Crafts Online" covers 16 sites like Cafepress that let you sell your art and designs via on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, caps and hundreds of other products. Save yourself weeks of research. Get ahead by accessing undiscovered but popular places for selling crafts online from. Author and craft artist, James Dillehay has written nine books and operates more than fifty Web sites. "James was a guest speaker on our Guerrilla Marketing conference call and he blew me away with what he knows about selling on the Internet," said Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series, over 15 million copies sold. "Sell Your Crafts Online" is a completely updated edition of Dillehay's book "The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet," of which Lapidary Journal said "An astonishing amount of usable information, crammed into so few pages! James Dillehay has an amazing talent for getting right to the point, with a minimum of "geekese." Of the entire list of computer instructional manuals I have read, this one would top the list. I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . even to my mom."

Download or read book The Handmade Business Revolution written by Juha Öörni and published by Juha Öörni via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handmade Business Revolution: Where & How to Sell Own Crafts Online If you love doing crafts, you can easily turn your hobby into a profitable online business. It’s not as hard as you imagine. Of course, if you wish to have success, you need to know some smart marketing strategies and effective ways to beat your competitors. You also need to know how to “move” online and what steps to take to achieve success. Nobody is born with all this knowledge, but it’s ok! This book by Juha Öörni will teach you everything you need to know about selling your crafts online. The Handmade Business Revolution: Where & How to Sell Own Crafts Online will be your guide into the business world of crafts and it will show you the steps you need to follow if you want your artwork to sell online successfully. If you’re ready to share your art with the world, this book will help you do it in the best way possible!

Download or read book Craft Business Power written by Jason Miles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides step-by-step directions for starting a craft business. Topics include: building the brand, price principles, auctions, taking photos, different marketplaces, promotion, and product launching. The authors present an in-depth case study of a crafts business that has achieved financial success in just five years.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Selling Your Crafts written by Chris Franchetti Michaels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get started selling handmade! This straightforward book walks you through the process of preparing your goods for sale, pricing and bookkeeping, finding venues, marketing and promoting your products, and working with customers both online and off—all without quitting your day job. Clear, concise instructions explain everything you need to know to sell crafts effectively in your spare time, and help you decide whether to take selling to the next level. Learn how to: • Find out whether you—and your crafts—are ready to start selling • Set prices to cover your costs and make a profit • Establish a bookkeeping system • Manage dual inventories of parts and finished goods • Discover the best places to sell your crafts in person or on the Internet • Identify the right people to market to • Accept credit cards and process other forms of payment • Start selling wholesale • Stay out of tax and legal trouble • And much more!

Download or read book Selling Your Crafts Online written by Madison Booker and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of the 9-to-5 grind? Are you more of a creative person than a pencil pusher? Are you looking for a way to break out of the tedium of the office, actually enjoy your job, and bring joy to your life? It’s not just a pipe dream! Turning your creative hobby into a profitable small business is within your reach. This book will walk you through the ins-and-outs of setting up an online crafting business from scratch. You will find out where to sell your crafts, learn useful shipping and pricing strategies, as well as some advertising ideas, and ways to deal with customers. Don’t waste any more time behind a desk; read on and learn how to make a career out of your creativity, and build the life you’ve always wanted.

Download or read book The Handmade Marketplace 2nd Edition written by Kari Chapin and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make money doing what you love. Kari Chapin’s insightful and inspiring guide to turning your crafting skills into earned income has been completely revised and updated. The Handmade Marketplace is filled with proven techniques that can help you brand your business, establish a client base, sell your products, and effectively employ all aspects of social media. Learn how easy it is to enjoy a lucrative career while leading the creative life you’ve always craved.

Download or read book Sell Your Crafts Passions 2 In 1 Bundle written by Madison Booker and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention fellow entrepreneurs! Are you looking for ways to make more money online? The problem at the moment is you end up spending money on new approaches that don't pan out. It would be good to earn some revenue online without having to pay an arm and a leg to get started. In this book bundle you will be guided through valuable step-by-step systems to launch your new online career and begin making real money. Inside you will learn: Selling Your Crafts Online: • Find out the best places to sell your crafts • Learn useful shipping and pricing strategies • Essential advertising strategies • Easy ways to deal with customers Shopify Essentials: • Use your personal passions and your potential market to their full potential • How to find reliable suppliers for your store • Essentials of listing • How to Fulfill orders professionally • How to expand into drop-shipping services • Proven methods to market your store to its target customers You can take the information in these guides to build your own online career, or you can do what most people do and never take that first step in a new direction. The choice is yours. To read on click on Buy now!

Download or read book Etsy Success Beyond How To Sell Crafts Online written by Mary Kay Hunziger and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love the idea of matching up my own true passions with profitable and passionate opportunities. It is the best lifestyle in the world to be able to make a profit from these passions at the same time. In this voluminous compilation that includes all of the individual volumes of the From Passion to Profit series (Volume 1 - 10), you will find all of the insightful, creative, and profitable stories of all the individual compilations that are included in the From Passion to Profit series. The power of multiple streams of income is yet another exciting aspect of these passionate stories. You will discover stories like "Starting Up A Business With Candles", "Cash From Old Shirts", "Cash Cakes Are Cool", "Cashing In From Snapshots", "Weird Books Into Cash", "Holiday Craze Cash", "Temporary Art For Cash", "Profits From Doll Illustrations", "Doll Clothing Profits", "Cook Up Some True Profits", "Profitable Fancy Cookbook Secrets", "Doggie Business Profits", "Unique Hairdo Profits", "Embarrassement With Hair Might Be Profitable", "Beaded Jewelry Profits", "Profitable Jewelry Patterns", "Creating Beautiful Jewelry For Profit", "How To Turn Jewelry Passion Into True Profits", and lots and lots and lots more exciting and profitable stories about craft, doll, food, hair, dog, and jewelry creation passions. You wanna learn from these folks! In summary, this compilation of Volume 1 to 10 of the From Passion To Profit series is going to introduce you to the most profitable techniques that relate to each From Passion To Profit category, tell you about the most lucrative opportunities in each category that you can add ASAP, and finally will show you the secret ingredients that you must build into your own from Passion to Profit business. To make your creative thinking process even more powerful just apply the out of the box creative thinking strategies that are going to be revealed to you to this resource guide and you will be able to come up with an unlimited amount of ideas...

Download or read book How to Make a Living from Selling Online written by John Baker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conception of the internet allows entrepreneurs from every geographic location have access to reach the global audience of consumers, sellers, resources, and information. The internet has made selling products in the global marketplace easy besides utilizing venues of online sales. These venues include eBay, websites of e-commerce and e-classifieds, with e-storefronts that work as a source of the limitless amount of products in-demand that can be bought from domestic and suppliers overseas to be resold with a profit. Now with the help of the internet, you can save the time and money that is required to research you can buy products cheaply by inspecting and negotiating with thousands of suppliers covering the globe. You are also able to resell these products worldwide hugely through numerous available online marketplaces for incredible profits. When considering the advantages of buy-and-sell enterprises over service-provider or retail businesses, why people choose to buy and sell along with its possibility of making up a large percentage of new economy quickly becomes apparent. The best aspect of initiating and operating a buy-and-sell venture is for anyone because everyone is qualified for it. Buying and selling business sets no boundaries where anyone may work from home with a need to earn some extra money regardless of age and experience with financial resources. This cheap and easy buying and selling self-employment option is quick and proven to work for the vast majority and generate huge profits. With the offered flexibility you can part-time buy and sell to pay off debts or earn some extra money. In our book we have discussed everything that you need to learn about selling on marketplaces, the pros and cons of each popular online storefronts, listed down how to attract maximum consumer and sell effectively. We have additionally discussed which platforms to choose when selling your handmade goods and crafts with maximum profit. Grab Your Copy Now!

Download or read book Sell Your Crafts Online written by James Dillehay and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sell Your Crafts Online is a one-of-a-kind blueprint for finding success and generating profitable returns in the highly lucrative world of e-commerce. Between helpful how-to's and checklists, Dillehay's proven strategies will speed your landing your passion projects in every buyer's shopping cart. By following his user-friendly approach, your hard work will reach wider audiences ready to invest in your talent.

Download or read book Sell Your Crafts Online written by Alejandro Marquez and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a talented artisan with a passion for creating beautiful crafts? Take your creativity to the next level and turn your hobby into a thriving online business with the invaluable guidance of "Sell Your Crafts Online." This must-have book is your go-to resource for transforming your handmade creations into a successful and profitable venture. In "Sell Your Crafts Online," you'll unlock the secrets to establishing a strong online presence and reaching a global audience. Whether you're a novice or experienced seller, this comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions and insider tips to help you navigate the world of e-commerce with confidence. From setting up your own online store to effectively showcasing your products, you'll learn the art of creating an enticing brand and captivating customers. Discover proven strategies for writing compelling product descriptions, capturing eye-catching product photographs, and mastering the art of social media marketing to drive traffic to your online shop. "Sell Your Crafts Online" goes beyond the basics and explores various platforms and marketplaces where you can showcase and sell your crafts. Explore the pros and cons of popular online marketplaces, such as Etsy and Shopify, and discover how to leverage their features to maximize your sales potential. From optimizing your product listings to understanding pricing strategies, you'll gain the knowledge and tools to stand out in a crowded marketplace. But it doesn't stop there! This book also equips you with essential business skills to ensure your success. Learn about inventory management, shipping and packaging best practices, customer service tips, and how to handle the financial aspects of running an online craft business. Gain insights into building customer loyalty, fostering positive reviews, and growing a sustainable customer base. With "Sell Your Crafts Online" as your trusted companion, you'll be empowered to turn your passion into profit and embrace the freedom and flexibility of being your own boss. Whether you're a jewelry maker, a knitter, a painter, or any other type of craftsperson, this book provides the knowledge and inspiration to take your creative journey to new heights. Don't let your beautiful crafts go unnoticed. Grab your copy of "Sell Your Crafts Online" and embark on an exciting entrepreneurial adventure, where your creativity and business acumen come together to create a thriving online craft business. The world is waiting to discover your unique creations, and this book will be your guiding light on the path to success.

Download or read book How to Start a Business Selling Arts and Crafts Online Offline written by Elaina Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating unique pieces of art comes easy to some people. Knowing the ins and outs of actually selling arts and crafts can sometimes be a little tricky. This book is designed to help those of you who want to sell your creations online or offline. It may be much more fun to create things than it is to do all of the research required to get you on the way to actually selling your arts and crafts.

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"--