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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 [...]
Sell Crafts on Talk Market Sell crafts at Talkmarket.com , a television shopping channel hosted by artists, designers, inventors, and creative retailers where they personally introduce their creations through videos created with the site’s video making technology. Shoppers get to see the products demonstrated and meet the people behind the creations. Talk Market was [...] As I wrote in a previous post, Craftsu.com is a new site to promote your craft from. If you already signed up, but have not yet created a profile or uploaded images of your work, you may want to do that now. The first of many news releases to come announced Craftsu to the media today [...] Bust Magazine Mentions Handmade Craft Products On a recent previous post, I mentioned getting publicity as a way to sell handmade crafts. One of the ways to get them to contact you is to send samples to editors. Two sites I’ve come across will include your samples in their mailings to editors: Homeofthesampler.com and Thelittleblackboxes.com. Share [...] I see the question on a lot of craft business forums asking if you can use designs, like from Disney or comic books or other popular images, on crafts you make to sell. In most cases the answer is that unless you have a licensing agreement with the copyright holder of a design, you cannot [...] Just got this announcement from CODA about a gig to sell crafts through….. Build your own craft business in the beautiful Ozarks. The Ozark Folk Center State Park is seeking working craftspeople to demonstrate, create and sell their handmade crafts in their own studio at the park. We are specifically looking [...] I was surprised to see that not many craft makers on my newsletter list are using Facebook to add free business pages to promote and sell crafts from. It may be they are too busy selling crafts during the holiday season. I hope so. And I hope they do get on Facebook and start linking [...] This last year, I’ve accessed Facebook more and more. It’s got some very neat featues that help grow your network in a very natural way. In addition to your Facebook profile, you can post what are called Facebook pages. Facebook pages allow you to promote your business. You can have many of these pages and [...] People love stories. The best presenters and marketers agree that stories captivate your audience and keep them engaged. Whenever or wherever you sell crafts, consider adding stories to each piece. The longer time someone spends examining your craft item either at a craft show or online at ebay or etsy, the higher the probability the [...] One of the fastest ways to get high quality links back to your craft business site is to issue press releases through PRWeb. Although the price for one release can be $200 (for optimizable keywords release), you can quickly get the word out about your crafts for the holiday gifts season. By inserting keywords important [...] This time of year usually brings in the biggest sales. Whether your sales are being affected by the economy or not, you should be keeping records of what items are selling and what’s not. Over time, measuring your sales by item details will help you learn where your strongest growth in income will come in [...] Getting written about in magazines and newspapers can bring you lots of extra business. Marcia and Bill Finks create handcrafted figures from rusted steel. Their pieces have appeared in numerous national publications. Their pieces were in Robert Redford’s Sundance Catalog and their art has appeared on Oprah, House and Garden Network and the popular TV [...] Someone asked me what a fiber artist did, since I was using that descriptor. I told them that the term fiber artist sounded more exotic than weaver. It’s a small promotional edge but hey, every little bit helps. How are you describing your craft business venture? Maybe adding the word artist will dress it up [...] There are many ways to sell your crafts. Here is a list of possibilities: 1. Sell crafts on eBay.com and Etsy.com I was thinking today about how when I first started selling my handwoven wearable art at craft shows and to stores, I didn’t really consider going much further with my marketing. Getting inventory for events and keeping the shops happy, kept me busy enough from week to week. But in these times, it seems we need [...] I put together a video course called “The 10 Most Asked Questions About Selling Your Crafts and the 10 Questions You Should Be Asking.” The course is free and the videos are brief, helpful tips for starting a craft business. This is a good course if you are just starting to sell crafts you’ve made [...] |
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