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Below are some books and guides about making money with crafts.
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Click here for details | | Crafts Wanted lists over 200 different places to sell your crafts! Includes retail locations, wholesale buyers, mail order catalogs, sales reps & much more. |
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Click here for details | | How to press flowers & make greeting cards for fun and profit. A creative & inspiring course with instant access. |
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Click here for details | | Helpful guide shows you how to start a machine quilting business from start-up to running and marketing your new business. |
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Click here for details | | Read the exciting experiences of one woman’s journey through the candle business! In her practical, easy-to-read, and often witty style, Jean Ann Herley guides you through the process of running and building a candle business, by telling you what ideas worked as well as what didn't in her own. With 180+ pages, you'll learn how to pick the best selling methods, what steps to avoid while in business and save time, money and effort on everything from creating your candles to marketing your candle business.. |
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Click here for details | | Info, resources & ebooks for starting your own retail or homebased Gift Basket Business. Wholesale Directory is hot! |
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Click here for details | | Certified Professional Portrait Photographer tells you what you really need to know! |
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Click here for details | | The essential guide for survival and success as a full-time professional artist. |
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Click here for details | | Work-At-Home Catalog. Make Art & Crafts in the comfort of your own home. It's Fun & Very Profitable. |
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Click here for details | | Downloadable manual and personal support to start in part time photography business. |
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Click here for details | | Sell your photos to card & calendar companies, books & magazines. or do photo freelancing in your own hometown. |
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Click here for details | | New Video Series Teaches You The Secrets to Making Cigar Box Purses for Fun and Profit. |
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By Roger Williams
Kindle Edition
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Most of this book has focused on crafting as a business. It can be a great way to do what you love and make money while doing it. But be realistic when you start to venture into this type of business. You won’t make a million dollars, and you’ll spend a lot of time in pursuit of your dream.
But don’t be afraid to take the chance and make your hobby into a career. Sure, it’s not an easy living, but it certainly is a satisfying one! Be prepared to be up early and stay up late. Be prepared to wait for your profits to show. You probably won’t see much of a profit your first time out.
Many people who have decided to get into crafting as a business can’t see themselves doing anything else. One crafter says, “Sometimes I get frustrated making the same item over and over again. It can be boring. But then I remember my clerical job doing the same job over and over again – and being bored too. At least this way, I set my own hours and make my own success. Having a steady paycheck was nice, but knowing you are doing something for yourself is so much more valuable.”
For home based artists and craftspeople, selling at fairs and shows provide an opportunity to ring up sales and find new customers at little cost and overhead. But making money at fairs and shows isn't as easy as it seems. It requires research, planning and the ability to keep a smile on your face while standing on your feet for long hours. And that's not for everyone.
To be successful at shows, you should have some sort of a retail personality, but you don’t have to be a natural salesperson. All you need to have is a passion for your product and yourself. Then you talk about it to your customers and let the rest take care of itself.
Crafting is more than job a hobby for millions of people. It’s scary to take the leap into business for yourself. But once you do, you’ll find reward by the mile. Those rewards can’t be found behind a computer at an office job or out in the field selling something you don’t really believe in.
Do your research, learn from those who know, and be relentless in your goal to become a successful crafting business. Reading this book is a great start! Now get to work. There’s a show right around the corner, and you need to be at it!
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By Russ Searle
Trafford Publishing
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Craft shows harken back to the days when everything was made locally. Today the majority of clothing, jewellery, and all manner of handcrafted and food items are imported and too many businesses are only interested in the bottom line. Go into any mall, and it's obvious that the variety and quality of goods offered have a sameness that can't be disguised by different brand names, and customer service is barely existent. That's why craft shows and fairs are more popular than ever.
This provides an opportunity for crafters and artists to showcase their skills and products. However, it doesn't mean a crafter can just show up and that customers will buy everything she puts on her table. She has to know how to attract customers. To put this another way, there is a lot of competition for the retail dollar, and there are tips and tricks to attracting customers. This book will help crafters compete in today's marketplace, and covers researching a product niche, exhibiting at a craft or trade show, selling and advertising techniques, craft show etiquette, setting a price for crafts, and record keeping and accounting. We show crafters how to profitably sell their crafts. |
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By Philip Kadubec
Allworth Press
Released: 2006-12-15
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Everything crafters need to know to make money--revised and updated * Easy to read, full of practical wisdom and entertaining stories
* Up-to-the-minute information on Internet marketing and branding Craftspeople and hobbyists will welcome this new edition of a popular book. Comprehensive and indispensable, Crafts and Crafts Shows gives advice on everything needed to succeed in the craft-show marketplace. Easy-to-follow instructions make it a snap to select the best shows to attend, create an appealing booth, and offer good customer service. Each chapter in the top-selling guidebook has been completely updated to reflect recent changes in the craft world and the book includes new information on branding, creating products that can compete in today’s marketplace, selling on the Internet, and taking promotional photos, as well as creating new marketing strategies for pricing and moving merchandise. |
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By A. B. Petrow
Craftmasters Books
Paperback (118 pages)
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You can make very good money selling your crafts with the information in this book. It will provide you with hundreds of tips for finding and getting into craft shows, surviving them, and making a profit. You will find contact information for over 800 of the best craft fairs in the United States, rated from A+ to B-, and over 100 promoters who promote multiple shows. There is information for jurying into the shows, taking your own photographs, which canopy to buy and how to keep it from flying away, travel safety, taking credit cards, preventing theft, and making more sales. There are descriptions and free downloads for using excel to price your craft, organize your applications, make a mailing list, and find out how much money you really made. There are also addresses for photographers, credit card terminal providers, and display case makers. To make money with your arts and crafts, all you need are beautiful irresistible handmade products, lots of self-discipline, and this book. |
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By Kandi L. Christian
Classic Press USA
Paperback (123 pages)
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Are you good with sewing and/or crafts? Do you want to start a business teaching others what you know? This book takes you through the steps of creating classes, making money through kits, speaking engagements, and more. |
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By Suzanne McNeill
Design Originals
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Design Originals
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By Steve Long
Mark Publishing, Incorporated
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By Leta W Clark
Morrow
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By Cyndi Kaplan
Millenium Books
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