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Crafting as a Business

Many crafters are supplementing or making their incomes with their crafts. Find informational sites that help crafters to transition from hobbiests to owners; business advice, small business opportunities and information on creating a small business online. They share their experiences and teach others how they too can make crafting profitable.

All the website owners have also included their favorite crafty tips.

Please Note: This category is intended to only list those websites that offer suggestions and products to help crafters market their wares. CraftyTips will not accept sites that offer website design or other general business solutions unless their site indicates they specialize in assisting professional crafters.
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Great Craft Business Websites


Rexan's Craft Organizer-Digital Organization for ALL Crafters
Let's get organized! Crafters want to go digital to save valuable space, a quick find, and make more time to craft. Rexan's Craft Organizer is designed for crafters. It's easy to use, do it once and you are always organized plus the scan program is already built it. Organize files, patterns, templates, magazine articles & clippings, photos, instructions and much more.
http://www.Rexancrafts.com
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

If you are like me, I subscribe to several magazines which can take up a lot of room to store. Go through your magazines and cut out your favorite articles, pictures, or how-to-instructions. Recycle the rest of the magazine. By doing this, you are "going green" which is important to our planet.



Craft Business Home
The free guide on how to turn your craft into a profitable home business! Starting and being successful at your home business with crafts: the what/why/where/when and HOW! Have fun and make money!
http://www.craftbusinesshome.com/indexa
(Clicks: 123; Link added: Aug 10, 2006)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

Your existing customers can tell you so much about your target market. Find out more about them to be able to find more customers who will buy from you. For example, where do they shop, what do they read, what do they buy, why do they buy, how much do they spend, and so on. Use this information to build a profile of your target market, which will help you to market better to them and find more customers. Once you know more about your customers, find creative ways to sell more to them!



How to Make Candy Bouquets for Fun and Profit
My 184 page guide “How to Make Candy Bouquets for Fun and Profit” reveals everything you need to know to create amazing gifts for your friends and family or to start your own candy bouquet business!
http://www.ediblecraftsonline.com/myguide.htm
(Clicks: 144; Link added: Mar 20, 2008)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

You can build a candy bouquet in any container (mugs, cups, vases, baskets, a teapot, sundae glasses, flower pots, etc.)

If you are a gift shop owner or run a gift basket business, candy bouquets will be a great addition to your business!



Craft Marketing | Handmadenews.org
A news site dedicated to handmade and the crafting world. Helpful articles give insightful tips and ideas for marketing your craft business both on the internet and offline.
http://www.handmadenews.org/department/index.php?did=16
(Clicks: 18; Link added: May 19, 2009)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

When writing a title for an item to list online, be sure to do a quick search for popular keywords that people may be searching for. A good tool for this is Wordtracker's Free Keyword tool. Just type one word that describes your item and the tool will give results of phrases that people have searched for relating to your word. The number next to the phrases estimates how many people search using that phrase per day. Choose one that best describes your item and use it in your title to get better search engine traffic.



Selling Crafts Online
Vital information and advice to help you turn your "kitchen table" hobby into a thriving full-time business. We turned our hobbies into a money-earning business and through our blog, we share what we have learned about marketing crafts.
http://sellingcraftsonline.com
(Clicks: 15; Link added: Sep 22, 2009)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

If you're writing a blog, don't think so much about what you are doing and what you want, instead think about what your potential customer wants to know or is looking for. It will not only make your post more appealing to them, it's also likely to make it more appealing to the search engines.



Free Craft Fair
Business resources for Crafters. FreeCraftFair.com offers articles, tools, promotion ideas, and a variety of other free resources to crafters working from their homes. Craft Happy!
http://freecraftfair.com
(Clicks: 16; Link added: Feb 1, 2010)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

Create a portable work surface by laying down some newspaper or wax paper in a cookie sheet and do all your painting and gluing on the cookie sheet. This is handy because when you are done and need to set the project aside to dry, it is simple to move the cookie sheet to a safe location.



Home Jewelry Business Success Tips
Discover and share new ideas for selling your handmade jewelry. This friendly, creative website has over a thousand pages of articles, tips, and ideas for starting and growing your own successful handmade jewelry business. Learn how to sell your jewelry in all sorts of venues - including the Internet, shops and galleries, craft shows, home parties, etc. Also discover how to photograph your jewelry, write product descriptions, create your own jewelry business cards and jewelry tags, and more.
http://www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com
(Clicks: 4; Link added: Jun 22, 2010)
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Craft Business Crafty Tip

If you're having trouble getting good photos of your jewelry, try using your computer's scanner instead of a digital camera. For small, fairly flat items like jewelry, you can often get really great shots simply by arranging your item on the scanner's glass, closing the lid, draping a dark cloth over the scanner to prevent any extra light from getting in - and scanning it! If you want to add a different background, you can carefully place a piece of fabric, scrapbooking paper, etc. on top of the jewelry you've arranged on the scanner glass.




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