When you make a product by hand, you start with a vision, plan or pattern. It’s the same with a business, even a new small venture run from home. You need to know where you are going so you can start in the right direction.
What’s the right direction? It depends on how fast and how large you want your craft business to grow. Perhaps you only want a few hundred extra dollars each month. Or maybe you want a home business to replace that job you hate.
Large or small, fast or slow, you have important questions.
- How much should you price your items?
- What if people won’t buy your products?
- Where do you find buyers?
- How do you stand out from competing sellers?
Craftmarketer is here to answer those and other questions you may not yet know to ask. After more than 30 years of growing my craft business, I’ve discovered you never stop learning. And you may come to feel like sharing what you know with others starting out.
I hope you will take advantage of Craftmarketer’s many blog posts and articles. You will also get access to helpful tools coming soon: a new pricing calculator, Etsy and Amazon fee calculator and more.
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Starting out with little money or resources, I become a professional craft artist and gallery owner. I’ve sold my handmade products at some of the top juried shows in the USA, in galleries and boutiques from Manhattan to the Grand Canyon, and online at Etsy, Ebay and Amazon Handmade.
My craft business advice has helped thousands of readers of popular craft magazines, The Wall Street Journal Online, Yahoo Finance, Bottom Line Personal, Family Circle, The Crafts Report, Working Mothers, Entrepreneur Radio and HGTV’s The Carol Duvall Show. Click here to learn what others say about my advice.
Hopefully, my advice will help you, too.
Welcome to Craftmarketer!
Looking forward to your comments and questions.
Best wishes,
James Dillehay