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Sell Crafts Wholesale and to Consignment Shops

Sell Crafts Wholesale

For craft business owners looking to sell crafts wholesale, there’s a new guide that’s full of start up help. It’s also for craft businesses already selling to stores, but want to see some improvement in their craft sales.

Selling crafts in quantity orders can grow your craft business faster than selling one item [...]

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New Publicity Opportunities for Craft Business Owners

Today was unusually good for publicity opportunities for craft business owners. Normally, I find one ever couple of days, but for whatever reason, there were a bunch. In fact there were 6. You can read them at Craftsu.com, my other site for shoppers looking to buy handmade.

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How to Increase Perceived Value in Your Craft Business

Lots of newbie craft business owners start out underpricing their items because they think of their pieces as commodities. But here is something a craft artist must keep in their thoughts: a commodity is an undifferentiated item that can be bought anywhere.

A handmade craft item can be transformed from a commodity by shifting the [...]

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Craft Business Owners Over 50 with Etsy Stores Wanted

If you have a craft business on Etsy and you are over 50, AARP magazine wants to know about you. for a possible story. Laura Daily is trying to track down craftsmen and craftswomen age 50 and older who use Etsy.com to market and sell their handmade wares. Email Laura query-2a9 (at) helpareporter.com with your [...]

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Crafting Flops Wanted for Craft Business Mag

Crafts Report writer Patrice Lewis wants to know about your flops. She is looking for successful, established craft business owners to give their examples of products or ideas that flopped. Perhaps nobody bought the item. Perhaps people laughed. Perhaps it fell apart in a customers hands. Perhaps all of the above.

Yes, it was embarrassing. [...]

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Interactive Marketing Gets People to Pay Attention

Adverblog: Examples of Interactive Marketing

When marketing your crafts, think about ways to get people to interact with you. It may be your only defense against them shutting you out in a busy world that’s full of interruption messages.

Interaction is key to getting them to pay attention to your crafts. I came across examples [...]

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