Do You Want to Start a Craft Business?
Have you wanted to start a craft business and didn't know where to begin? This is the place to look. I've collected some of the best books to help you get started.
I started my first business back in 1992 after suffering from a breakdown due to stress on the job. Other than my career (which I had to give up) I had no marketable skills other than my art. I discovered gift baskets and with the help from a few local business people I started what was to become a very successful a gift basket business that grew so much in three years I could no longer handle it by myself and sold the business. My gift baskets were "works of art", not just typical gift basket. But it was not just the unique, original baskets that made the business a success,. it was learning how to run a business that made helped make it the success it became in such a short time.
It's not easy starting a business but now there are so many helpful guides to get you on your way. You can have a successful craft business and my small gift basket business was proof that it can be done.
You will also find a collection of miscellaneous arts and crafts books that don't fit into other categories.
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Craft Business Related Books
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The Crafty Superstar Survival Guide: An Unconventional Workbook for Managing Your Creative Business [Paperback] Available as a Pre-order Grace Dobush is a writer, editor and crafter based in Cincinnati. She is a co-organizer of the indie craft show, Crafty Supermarket and the author of the popular book Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash and Basically Have It All. An alumna of Kent State's School of Journalism, Grace has written about crafts, art and design for Hello Craft, HOW, Venus Zine and |
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Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business Craft, Inc. is the hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money. Pro crafter Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth interviews with such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler, Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, and Jill Bliss provide inspiration and practical advice. Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. paves the way for today's creative minds to become tomorrow's trendsetters. |
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Craft, Inc. Business Planner (diary) This action-oriented take-along planner is packed with advice and worksheets that guide creative entrepreneurs in their hot pursuit of profit. From big picture goals (writing a mission statement, developing marketing campaigns, launching a new line) to immediate to-dos (getting a business license, pricing products, packing for trade shows), this essential guide brims with how-to tips from industry experts. Roomy pockets catch important business cards, while tear-off notepad pages offer space to jot thoughts on the go. The lay-flat portfolio packaging makes this planner both easy to tote and durable enough to withstand all that the bumpy road to success may bring. This book is brand new from the author of the best selling book "Turn your Creative Hobby into a Business". |
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The Crafts Business Answer Book: Starting, Managing, and Marketing a Home based Arts, Crafts, or Design Business Completely revised and updated, The Crafts Business Answer Book is an essential resource for anyone looking to start a home-based art or crafts business or perfect an existing one. Crafts business expert Barbara Brabec provides the answers to every question a creative person might have about the business side of crafting-from pricing and advertising, to understanding tax and labor laws, to protecting original work with copyrights and trademarks. |
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The Savvy Crafters Guide To Success: Turn Your Crafts Into A Career By Sandy McCall By a professional crafts person, for the want-to-be professional crafter. Not just about selling your crafts, but successful career building--covers aspects of teaching and finding arenas in which to promote yourself and your work. Very first full-color visual guide to making money with your crafts. Experienced crafters--the ones who make their living at making, selling, and teaching crafts--are constantly answering questions such as "What did you do before this?" and " How did you start making a living and how can I get that job?" For many crafters, selling their art and teaching others how to do it--full time--is just a dream. The Savvy Crafter's Guide to Success guides crafters through the maze of the world of crafting with pertinent information on how to build and maintain a craft business; how to teach the best arts and craft classes; how to write regularly for craft/home publications; how to get your designs sold; plus explains the ins and outs of the business of crafts. In addition, the book features profiles and interviews with a diverse range of crafters who have found their own way to building a successful crafting business. |
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