Crafty Business: How To Sell Your Crafts

By Callida Bug

Callida Bug offers great tips and tricks to help start and grow your handmade business. This book is used to teach small handmade business classes by Callida Bug and is now available to you for a limited of time online! Tips, tricks, planner examples are all throughout the guide to help you get started!

We are building a creative community and with every purchase, 100% goes towards development of Youneik.com and towards helping crafters get started with their business.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Callida Bug
• Release date: Jan 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781311675422

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Contents:

About Us

Disclosure and Copy Rights

Introduction

Brain Storming

Finding your Niche

Goals

Naming Your Business

Research

Financial and Budgeting

Branding

Execution

Description Activity

Displays

Keywords

Packaging and Shipping

Photography

Preassembled Kits

Management

Customer Service

Conclusion

Sponsored Shops

Resources

About Us

Our Goal as a Leader

Our goal is to lead in inspiration, inspire creativity and freedom of choice. The choice to live on your own terms doing what you feel is best for your lifestyle, family and ultimately you. We want to encourage small creative artists to be successful, and at the same time giving more choice to the shopper to be able to express their individuality, personal style and have more choice and to be who they want to be.

Education and Resources

We have 20 plus years in crafting, selling, and small business. We hope to give you the tools and support your need to be successful in your creative business.

At the end of this book, you will find suggested resources, sponsors, suppliers and more. Feel free to check them out. Don’t forget if you find this helpful to you or could be helpful to anyone, please share with your friends and family!

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Disclosure and Copy Rights

© Callida Bug. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Please do not copy, modify, or distribute any part of this informational product or its materials. This course and book is based on 30+ years of experience of crafting, small business, and all things considered in the material provided.

This informational product is for informational and suggestive ideas to help you along the way of selling your creations. This is not a get rich quick scheme or technique. Success is what you make of it and the efforts you put into it. Some information may not apply to your goals and efforts. Your success depends on you and your decisions, research, time and resources, and what you put into it.

Samples and examples are given as a suggestion and not a given, you may use such techniques if desired and alter them to fit the needs of your business. If you did not purchase this from Callida Bug directly, please contact us at [e-mail]. Let us know. It benefits you, us and everyone around us!

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Introduction

Benefits having your own business

Family

Whether you are doing this to support your family or be with your family, working and getting them involved in activities for your promotions can also bring your family closer as a unit and create independence and creativity for your little ones.

Here’s an example of one of our members back stories. Our member, Melanie loves to knit, crochet and create patterns, so her business is selling her creations and writing books of her patterns. Her daughter Abby, eight years old, loves to take pictures and scrapbook. Although they have two different niches, they still work together. Melanie writes her patterns out. Then Abby takes pictures of her creations in different poses and scenes and then creates fun patterns for her pattern books. When completed, the book is beautiful and both their names are in the credits. When a book is sold, Melanie gives her daughter a percent of the sales for using her graphics. The book alone will bring traffic to both parties with the credits. It’s a great way to work together, and still do something you like, no matter how different your niche is.

Even if you work alone in your business, think of all the sports events, family functions, family time and more you could work around and be there for the important things in life and you’re family will never have to hear, you can’t make it because you had to work! As mentioned before, you can even get your family involved in-group projects, fundraisers or get them going in their own direction of success!

Setting your own hours

You can work around everyone else’s schedule, set a side time just for your business, give yourself holidays off weekends off, it’s your time. Manage it to you!

Be as successful as you want.

Really. It depends on you. If you want a part time income, full time income, six-figure income, it’s really up to you on your efforts. You can choose to do it all on your own for your family, yourself, or get more family involved, spending time, and making money together. We provide a lot of resources and avenues for exchanging advice and techniques, but we also recommend you to ask around, get different perspectives if you need it.

You are your own boss

Enough said. Sounds like a sales pitch but… it’s true. If you are tired of selling the same thing, change it, if you want to work with a new material, go for it. There is no more boss looking over your shoulder, telling you what to do, how to dress, or what product you are selling. It’s all up to you!

Benefits of Handmade Business

Making what you want and enjoying what you do

Enjoy the things you make, get inspired, expand, condense, whatever you want to do. You don’t have to make or sell things you don’t want to. Your product or services are all about you and sharing that part of you to fit the needs and wants of others. No need to purchase finished product for your inventory, when you are making it yourself. You just need to focus on getting supplies

Inventory

Your inventory is completely your design. No worries on if your third party company no longer carries that specific item your customer wants. Supplies and raw materials are so easy to shop for rather than finished product. Besides, you can make it on the spot providing an extra bit of customer service that other competitors may not offer. You can even offer customizations with your merchandise if requested. Customizations, we’ll get more in depth later.

Travel Opportunity

With a handmade business, there is always room for travel. You can travel as far as you want or stay close to home. Events like craft fairs and educational classes and more, gives you not only the opportunity to expose your business goods but allows you and your family to go places. Plan a vacation around your craft fair days if you want.

Course Objective

Brain Storming

Let’s get started with the all-important thought process, in this section go ahead and print out the notes paper or grab some regular paper or a notebook. This is a very important step. Even if you know