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Jun 17, 2019
Selling on Consignment vs. Wholesale
Compare selling on consignment vs. wholesale for craft artists. Determine whether craft consignment is a smart way to achieve your business goals, or if you should stick to wholesaling if you want your handmade products in retail shops.
Jun 14, 2019
What is a Fair Consignment Percentage?
Discover what is a fair consignment percentage for craft artists. If you want to sell your crafts on consignment, you'll need to be ready to negotiate a fair agreement with the retailer, including a reasonable split of the retail sales price.
Here's what's typical in consignment agreements, and how consignment differs from wholesale and retailing yourself.
Jun 10, 2019
How Does Consignment Work?
How does consignment work? Here's how craft business owners can partner with retail shop owners to sell handmade products. Pros and cons of selling crafts this way and what to include in a consignment agreement contract.
Jun 03, 2019
How to Display Paintings at an Art Show
Here's how to display paintings, art prints, and cards at an art show. Smart strategies for displaying larger original art as well as smaller canvases and prints at craft shows.
Apr 13, 2019
Jewelry Display Lighting Ideas
9 photos of jewelry booths that feature effective portable lighting options. If you're not a jewelry designer, don't skip this article. These jewelry display lighting ideas can be applied to plenty of different types of craft show booths.
Apr 12, 2019
Try A White Umbrella for Irregular Craft Booths
Do you have an irregular outdoor booth space to deal with at an upcoming craft show? Here are some solutions for providing shade in a booth space that won't fit your standard 10x10 portable canopy.
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Apr 11, 2019
Craft Fair Printable Packing List
Brand new printable craft show packing checklist PDF you can download to stay organized as you prepare for craft fairs. Plus, a list of craft show essentials to keep you happy and well-prepared for craft shows.
Apr 10, 2019
Get Ready for Craft Show Season
It's time to get ready for craft show season! Summer craft show season will be ramping up soon, and you'll be busy preparing your booth, creating inventory, and trying to stay organized. This week's series of featured articles will help you prepare for the upcoming busy craft show season.
Apr 09, 2019
Craft Show Lights
Good craft show lights are an essential part of an indoor display. The 7 booths featured here make great use of effective portable lighting solutions and will help you decide how to design lighting for your own booth.
Apr 04, 2019
How to Apply to Juried Art Shows
Juried art shows can provide important opportunities for craft business owners, but if you're new to selling at craft shows, the application process can be a bit overwhelming. Here's how to get organized and make the best impression with your craft show applications.
Mar 30, 2019
Best Craft Business Tips
Want to sell your crafts, but you have no idea where to start? Here are 6 of the most popular craft business articles on this site to help you start selling your handmade products and turn your hobby into a business.
Mar 04, 2019
Visual Merchandising Strategies for Your Craft Booth
How to use proven visual merchandising techniques including strategic color, clever display design, and smart signs to create an effective craft booth that draws attention to your most profitable products.
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Feb 27, 2019
Visual Merchandising Display Strategies for Your Craft Booth
Three visual merchandising display strategies retailers use to boost sales that you can use in your portable booth at craft shows. How to use eye level product placement, pyramid-shaped displays, and repetition and alternation to entice shoppers to buy more.
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Feb 07, 2019
Art Booth Ideas With 8 Photos
8 photos full of art booth ideas. Here's how to display paintings and art prints in a portable display, create a booth that draws in customers, and make sure your booth design matches the aesthetic of your art.
Feb 06, 2019
7 Art Booth Display Photos
7 art booth display photos show you how to create a display that showcases your style and draws attention from a distance.
Jan 14, 2019
Visual Merchandising Tips for Craft Show Displays
6 tested visual merchandising tip you can use to boost sales at craft shows. Big retailers use these tested strategies to entice customers to shop more, and you can use them in your own craft booth, too.
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Jan 12, 2019
Habit Management Strategies to Accomplish More in Less Time
Habits have an immense impact on your life. Those little tasks you do (or don't do) every day may not seem very consequential on any given day. But when you add up those small, consistent actions over time, they can turn into huge achievements.
Here's the first resource I found that really helped me to actively cultivate better habits that help to accomplish more and reach my goals.
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Jan 11, 2019
Effective Work Habits to Help You Grow Your Craft Business
Would you believe a full 40-45% of our daily actions are done out of habit?
That number shocked me, but it's backed up by scientific studies. And if 45% of our day is habit, that means, if we consciously develop helpful, productive habits, we can get almost half of our day right automatically.
Here's how to make your habits work for you, so you can achieve your goals this year.
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Jan 10, 2019
The Best Time Management Books
There are a lot of terrible time management books out there.
Believe me, I've read them all. Too many of them depend on strategies that are only doable if you have total control of your time.
Good grief!
If I had total control of my time, I wouldn't need a time management book in the first place!
There are a few great books out there, though, that have really helped me to accomplish more and thrive.
These books meet you where you are rather than forcing inflexible schedules on you. They present strategies that can work with almost any type of lifestyle and work schedule, and in one way or another, they have all changed my life.
Jan 09, 2019
Better Time Management Habits
Five time management habits that actually work!
Learn how the most productive people work, and apply these five completely do-able strategies to your own work routines to get more done in 2019.
Jan 08, 2019
Trending Crafts That Will Sell Well in 2019
What crafts will sell well in 2019?
I have the trend reports, interpreted for craft business owners, so you can create products that are in demand and on trend.
Don't get stuck with a booth full of yesterday's foxes and unicorns when all of your customers are looking for llamas and sloths!
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Jan 07, 2019
Better Habit Management = Better Goal Achievement
Want to really achieve your business goals in 2019? Forget about resolutions and white-knuckle willpower.
The smart way to achieve your goals is through better habit management.
Actively cultivate a set of habits that truly support your goals, and you'll be on your way to big accomplishments in 2019.
This week on the Craft Business Challenge, I'll share my favorite strategies for cultivating better work habits to accomplish more.
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Dec 15, 2018
How to Research Your Craft Business Competition
Check out the competition before you launch your product. Use these strategies to discover what the competition is doing and how you can make your product more competitive.
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Dec 14, 2018
Test Your Craft Business Product Idea
How to create a prototype for your craft business product idea and test it to improve your product and boost your chance for success.
Dec 13, 2018
How to Assess Business Ideas & Find the Most Promising Opportunities
How to assess business ideas, toss out ones that won't work, and focus on developing a well-conceived craft business idea with a real chance for success.
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Dec 10, 2018
Handmade Product Development
This week on the Craft Business Challenge: How to develop a better product.
We'll look at a three part series that shows you how to research and develop a product that has a better chancellor success. Learn how to find and fix flaws, develop a prototype, test your product, and use information from your competition to create a better product.
Dec 09, 2018
Better Business Collaborations
You've been approached by another business owner who wants to collaborate with you on a project. Is this partnership a big opportunity to grow your business, or might it end up being a colossal waste of your time?
Will you say yes?
Here's how I assess partnership proposals to decide if I want to commit my time to a project.
Dec 08, 2018
Measuring New Project Benefits and Risks
Starting a new business project can mean you're taking on risk. Even if you're not risking a lot of money, you may be risking your time, which is also extremely valuable.
Before you dive into a new business project, ask these 5 questions to determine if a new business project is worth the commitment of your time and money.
Dec 07, 2018
Setting Priorities to Accomplish More by Doing Less
Time management gurus like to tell us how to cram more into our day. But, what if the answer isn't cramming in more? What if the real answer to feeling like you're thriving is to accomplish more by doing less?
Here's how your business can thrive while you do less and save time for other priorities.
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Dec 06, 2018
Do Effective Things Well
Too many ideas, not enough time. That's how I often feel. I'll admit, it's one of my biggest weaknesses when it comes to running a business. Taming my tendency to jump from one project to another is my goal for the coming year. Here's how I plan to tackle this big challenge.
Dec 05, 2018
How to Assess Business Ideas & Find the Most Promising Opportunities
How to assess business ideas, toss out ones that won't work, and focus on developing a well-conceived craft business idea with a real chance for success.
Continue reading "How to Assess Business Ideas & Find the Most Promising Opportunities"
Dec 05, 2018
Craft Booth Color
Effective use of color is an affordable way to make your craft booth more inviting. These 6 craft displays show you how to use color effectively in your own booth.
Dec 03, 2018
Stop Wasting Your Most Precious Resource
It's crucial that you spend your resources wisely. As a solopreneur, there's no resource more precious than your time. Yet, many of us waste that precious time to save a few dollars, or because we decide to work on projects that don't have a lot of potential return on the time spent.
This week on the Craft Business Challenge I have 4 articles that will challenge you to rethink how you use and value your precious time.
Nov 30, 2018
Dazzling Retail Jewelry Displays
The retail jewelry displays in this indie shop are some of my all-time favorite displays - and I have looked at a lot of jewelry displays! These ideas are perfect for showing your jewelry in a retail shop, but they are also portable enough to use in your craft booth.
Nov 28, 2018
12 Retail Display Design Photos
12 beautiful retail display design ideas perfect for displaying crafts in indie shops and portable enough to use at craft shows.
Nov 27, 2018
Retail Display Solutions for Your Craft Show Booth Dilemmas
This week on the Craft Business Challenge: I have oodles of photos of gorgeous displays in indie retail shops. For those who sell at craft shows, these display ideas are portable enough to use in a craft display booth. Plus, I'm also sharing photos of 6 craft booths that do a spectacular job of using color to make an impact. Color is a low-cost, high-impact way to make your displays more effective. Read on to see how to use color to make an impact with your own craft display.
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Nov 24, 2018
How to Price Crafts and Things You Make to Sell
Discover how to price crafts for profit. Learn how to thoroughly assess your costs, consider how the competition's prices impact your business, discover how to raise the perceived value and decreasing costs to increase profits.
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Nov 23, 2018
Pricing Crafts to Address All of Your Costs
Pricing crafts can be tricky business. To be profitable, you need to be sure you've factored in all of your costs. Here's how to ensure you've accounted for all of your costs in your product prices.
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Nov 22, 2018
Separate Craft Pricing Decisions From Your Emotions
Price your crafts logically and profitable, not emotionally. Discover how to use a craft pricing strategy that is objective and based on business goals and eliminates emotion when you set your prices.
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Nov 21, 2018
Price Your Crafts to Match Your Business Goals
Discover how to price your crafts to meet your business goals. Your product pricing has a bigger impact on the direction of your business than you might think. Here's how to price your crafts to grow the type of business you really want.
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Nov 20, 2018
Craft Pricing Formula and Downloadable Calculator
This craft pricing formula shows you how to price your craft for profit. Plus, download a free craft pricing calculator to apply the formula to your own products.
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Nov 19, 2018
How to Price Your Products
How to price your products intelligently for a profitable craft business. Learn popular theories on product pricing, and calculate retail and wholesale prices for your handmade items with a free, downloadable craft pricing calculator.
Nov 17, 2018
Smarter Instagram Hashtags
These 6 simple steps will help you find better hashtags for Instagram and boost your social media visibility.
Nov 16, 2018
Get Found on Instagram Search
Develop a better understanding of how Instagram search works, so you can boost your chances of being found and grow your presence on Instagram.
Nov 15, 2018
Get More Instagram Followers
Want to grow your Instagram following? Here's how to get more Instagram followers without using spammy tricks that could put your account at risk.
Nov 14, 2018
Is Instagram Marketing Right For Your Business?
Is Instagram marketing really right for your craft business? Here's how to find out whether it's worth your precious and limited time to develop an engaged following on Instagram.
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Nov 13, 2018
Instagram Business Marketing
Discover how to promote your business on Instagram.
Instagram marketing is a natural fit for many craft businesses. The platform is highly visual, providing excellent opportunities to show off your handmade products.
But, is Instagram marketing right for your business? And how do you get started building a presence on Instagram? That's what we'll explore this week on the Craft Business Challenge.
Nov 02, 2018
Retail Market Trends - Christmas Holiday Shopping Data and Predictions for 2018
A study of retail market trends shows you when shoppers plan to start their holiday shopping. Discover the biggest in-store and online retail days, so you can plan your promotions in time to sell more crafts this Christmas season.
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