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Web Sales Can Increase Your Crafting Revenue

March 13, 2008

by: Natalie Goyette Think of an ideal craft show for a moment… thousands of people coming through the turnstiles at the fairgrounds or the exhibition areas with money in their hands and an intense desire to spend it. What about having a million people with access to your crafts at a craft show – at [...]

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Williams Wood Works Interview

February 27, 2008

Jesse Williams is a scroll saw artist who recently set up a website, Williams Wood Works, to sell his scroll sawn wood art. He was kind enough to share some of his thoughts on the process. [SSG] Hi Jesse, thanks for joining us. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? How did you [...]

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How To Profit from a Craft Niche

February 20, 2008

by: Natalie Goyette One of the things that you might consider is finding a niche for your craft. Maybe you have some expertise, skill, or interest that might be a creative tool for you to use in creating items for craft shows. Below are some hints to finding what that area might be for you: [...]

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Selling Your Intarsia

January 17, 2008

By Jerry Mifflin Our challenge as Crafter’s and intarsia artists is to discover our markets. You need to know your market, who is your customer? Are you selling a product to local or global customers. If you’re selling to local customers say out of a storefront, you must know if you are in the right [...]

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The Business Side of Craft Shows

January 3, 2008

by: Natalie Goyette Starting a craft show business when you’re really an artist at heart may be a rude awakening for you. Nevertheless, if you decide to turn your hobby into a business, you need to switch hats from time to time. You wear your artist hat when creating and producing your crafts, and you [...]

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Blogger

December 20, 2007

The internet is a wonderful thing. There is so much information available at your fingertips. Email is more common than phone calls anymore. So it only makes sense to build your own website. I plan on writing several articles about building easy websites to show off your creations to online communities, or to direct your [...]

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