Filled with a great deal of practical information, this little guide can teach you all the ins and outs of selling your arts and crafts. The Basic Guide shows you how to find buyers; price your work; succeed at craft shows; sell to stores, galleries, trade shows, and corporations; build a mail-order business; deal with basic business and financial considerations; and use promotional materials. It even tells you what to do if you've followed all this good advice and your work still isn't selling. The appendices list names and addresses of organizations, buyers' directories, craft-fair guides, display suppliers, and more. Venues that are not often covered in other books on the subject are explored here, such as selling at home parties or to interior designers, teaching crafts workshops, or opening your own crafts gallery.

The Basic Guide to Selling Arts & Crafts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dillehay, James

Crafts & Hobbies

Warm Snow Pub

Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success

One of the most often asked questions from craftpersons selling their work is "How much should I charge?" Whether you have been in business or just starting, this step-by-step guidebook will help you answer that question. You'll get: 
Ways to raise the perceived value of your work and charge more
Basic formulas for pricing craftwork, retail or wholesale
How to use pricing strategies to increase sales
How to price one-of-a-kind pieces
How to know if you are really making a profit
How to keep records, with sample forms you can copy
How to get the most profit out of every hour
Legal ways to cut your tax bills and boost your net income
More ways to boost your cash income than you ever imagined

The Basic Guide to Pricing Your Craftwork

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Tips and tricks for selling crafts on the internet.

The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet

Marketing & Sales

Format Paperback Subject Business Economics Business Writing Publisher Warm Snow Publishers

Directory of Grants for Craft: How to Write a Winning Proposal

Your Guide to Ebook Publishing Success

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Most new businesses are small businesses, begun by people who love their work. This book gives weavers and others information about business plans, sales, mail order, advertising, and evaluating the business. Appendixes list suppliers, show guides, organizations, advertising media, periodicals, and schools and feature a bibliography. These specialized resources make this a very useful book for weavers and other craft artists who need solid business information.

Weaving Profits: How to Make Money Selling Your Handwovens

This jam-packed guide took a year of research to help artists and craftspeople like you. You'll get more than 200 tactics, tips and tricks to profit with your craft items from eBay's millions of buyers. Learn how to quickly analyze completed auctions for elements that will help sell your art and crafts items and recognize new opportunities for making money from home.

Sell Your Crafts on eBay

Computers & Technology

Warm Snow Publishers

"I applied some of the principles from this book to my most recent craft display. I've already sold twice as many items as last year, and my profit is far greater." ~ Eryka Sellers What if I told you raising your prices increases your product sales? What if you had more than 25 ways to raise your item's perceived value so customers will pay more? You'll get these tips and a whole lot more. Learn how to price crafts and things you make to sell. Discover formulas, examples and strategies to be more profitable right now. Get pricing tips for selling retail or wholesale, online or to stores and at craft shows. If you have been considering starting a home business selling things you make or you are already selling but losing money, you need How to Price Crafts from artisan, gallery owner, and craft business author, James Dillehay. You get: * Formulas and examples of pricing crafts when selling retail or wholesale, online or off * Stand out from the crowd with 8 competitive pricing strategies * Get 25 tactics for how to price crafts higher by increasing perceived value * Learn how to price one-of-a-kind items * Guarantee that your craft prices are really earning you a profit * Find examples of how to keep records so you can quickly learn how to price crafts as you make them * Boost your cash flow income so you will never run out of money to run your craft business * Get 5 ways to lower your material costs * Increase your production of things to make to sell with a more efficient workspace * Save money at tax time with more than 40 overlooked tax deductions from your craft business * And many more ways to help your craft business' bottom line. What real people are saying . . . "Once I found this book I said; this is exactly what I need!" ~ Lene Randol "Pricing your art is an impossible task that James Dillehay has totally solved. This book covers EVERYTHING you ever needed to know about how to price your hand made crafts." ~ CB Burton "If you are seriously considering selling your items for a profit, the topics in How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell are essential to your success." ~ Spin Off Magazine

How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell

Arts & Photography

Business of Art

"Sell Your Crafts Online" provides a roadmap to the best Internet places for makers of handmade crafts to sell, promote and get reviewed from. Discover over 500 promotion ideas. Get 21 ways to inspire trust on your site pages. Learn how to boost your craft site's search engine traffic with 24 Search Engine Optimization tips. Get the 12 best practices for getting link love from other sites. Find 85 places (including Etsy and eBay) to sell handmade crafts from. Learn where to sell your crafts to stores online from 10 wholesale sites. Promote your indie designed art and crafts from 42 online communities. Get reviews of your craft products on 51 shopping community and blog sites that seek unique products to write about. Syndicate your handmade crafts images, blogs, videos, and articles from 36 networks and discover 16 ideas for getting free publicity in magazines and on TV. Thought about starting your own t-shirt business? "Sell Your Crafts Online" covers 16 sites like Cafepress that let you sell your art and designs via on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, caps and hundreds of other products. Save yourself weeks of research. Get ahead by accessing undiscovered but popular places for selling crafts online from. Author and craft artist, James Dillehay has written nine books and operates more than fifty Web sites. "James was a guest speaker on our Guerrilla Marketing conference call and he blew me away with what he knows about selling on the Internet," said Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series, over 15 million copies sold. "Sell Your Crafts Online" is a completely updated edition of Dillehay's book "The Basic Guide to Selling Crafts on the Internet," of which Lapidary Journal said "An astonishing amount of usable information, crammed into so few pages! James Dillehay has an amazing talent for getting right to the point, with a minimum of "geekese." Of the entire list of computer instructional manuals I have read, this one would top the list. I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . even to my mom."

Sell Your Crafts Online: More Than 500 Free and Low-cost Ideas for Craft Artists to Get More Links, Traffic, and Sales

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