Best Bazaar Crafts to Make and Sell


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Better Homes and Gardens Easy Bazaar Crafts


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Contains step-by-step instructions for making bazaar projects, dolls, toys, gifts, Christmas crafts, and bake sale favorites.







How to Make Money at Craft Shows


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Have you ever wanted to sell your handmade crafts or artwork at local craft fairs, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you've taken the first step and have tried selling your art at a craft show or two, but now you're looking for ideas on how to sell more, how to make your booth more appealing to customers and where to find more venues to sell your handmade goods? You've come to the right place! I've been selling my own handmade creations, as well as the work of other artists, at a variety of craft shows and other events since 2004. I've learned a lot of lessons the hard way, and now I'm sharing them here with you so that you can learn from my experiences! In this book, I'll cover the basics of getting started selling at craft fairs, as well as how to design a great looking booth, how to give outstanding customer service & sell more and even how to find and create additional events at which to sell your handmade work. WHAT IT INCLUDES: - how to define your target market - where to find good shows - how much should I spend on a booth fee at a show? - how to make your booth look great - promoting your show & getting your customers there - my craft show tips & tricks - dealing with crazy weather & unexpected events - theft prevention - craft show supply checklist - how to give great customer service - how to use craft shows to create after-the-show sales - alternative venues to sell your work, beyond traditional craft shows - how to create your own events to sell at - tracking your inventory - how to create a personal & business spending plan - big hunkin' list of craft show resources WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: This book will be most useful for someone new to selling at craft shows. I do cover more advanced topics as well though, including how to define your target market, visual merchandising, inventory tracking, and creating a business spending plan. The book includes worksheets along the way to help you. The information in this book is based on my experiences, selling in the United States, mostly in Louisiana. However, most of the information contained here is useful to anyone around the world who is interested in setting up a booth at craft shows, festivals or conventions. WHY I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT: I did my first craft show in 2004. It was the Alternative Media Expo, put on by Antigravity Magazine here in New Orleans. I sold a few things, and learned a LOT of things. And I haven't looked back! I've done all sorts of events since then. I have sold regularly at the Frenchmen Art Market, and have done festivals around the New Orleans area including Bayou Boogaloo, Gretna Heritage Festival, Freret Market, New Orleans Earth Day Festival, and many, many more. As one of the founding members of the New Orleans Craft Mafia, I've even organized a variety of events, both with the group and on my own. As a group, we've created a monthly art market and the annual Last Stop Shop holiday market. On my own, I've also hosted home shopping parties, trunk shows and pop-up shops. In 2007, as one of the winners of Etsy's Upcycling contest, I even traveled cross-country to San Francisco to participate in Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire!




Crafts Bazaar


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The Handmade Business Revolution


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The Handmade Business Revolution: Where & How to Sell Own Crafts Online If you love doing crafts, you can easily turn your hobby into a profitable online business. It’s not as hard as you imagine. Of course, if you wish to have success, you need to know some smart marketing strategies and effective ways to beat your competitors. You also need to know how to “move” online and what steps to take to achieve success. Nobody is born with all this knowledge, but it’s ok! This book by Juha Öörni will teach you everything you need to know about selling your crafts online. The Handmade Business Revolution: Where & How to Sell Own Crafts Online will be your guide into the business world of crafts and it will show you the steps you need to follow if you want your artwork to sell online successfully. If you’re ready to share your art with the world, this book will help you do it in the best way possible!




The Handmade Marketplace, 2nd Edition


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Make money doing what you love. Kari Chapin’s insightful and inspiring guide to turning your crafting skills into earned income has been completely revised and updated. The Handmade Marketplace is filled with proven techniques that can help you brand your business, establish a client base, sell your products, and effectively employ all aspects of social media. Learn how easy it is to enjoy a lucrative career while leading the creative life you’ve always craved.




The Smart & Easy Guide to Crafts That Sell


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People tell you that you must do what you love and love what you do. People always say that if you do this, work becomes fun. For most people who find themselves employed, they are doing what they need to do in order to survive. They cultivate crafts that sell and hobbies that make money in their spare time to give themselves an outlet for the creative energy that their day job does not give them home business opportunity to express. Then again, there are some people who have taken their crafts that sell and hobbies that make money one step, or maybe a few more small steps further and they are actually earning income from their crafts and hobbies. Crafters often make money from their home business and crafting hobbies. You could be one of those home business crafters. In order to build a successful crafts home business out of a hobby, there must be an investment of your time, your undivided attention and your creative juices. This book will assist you by giving you pointers on how to make your crafts that sell and hobbies that make money an income-generating home business machine that may, with perseverance and luck, become a huge crafts business venture. You need originality and focus. You can always find a best-selling item, copy it, sell it and make some money from it as a home business startup. You can always do that - countless others do that everyday. But then, if you stick to that plan of action for your crafts that sell and hobbies that make money, you will not be setting a market trend, you will be tripping over yourself trying to follow trends that other home businesses set for you. If this is what you want, then by all means, do it. But if you have bigger brighter dreams of finding crafts that sell and hobbies that make money and something that people will take notice, find interesting enough to purchase and be happy to use, then you are not simply looking for a source of income, you are looking for a source of entrepreneurial satisfaction and home business fulfillment. This is the motivation that will take your sideline crafts home business into a mainstream crafts that sell and hobbies that make money. This kind of motivation will keep you on your tippy toes and working long after all others in your league have thrown in the towel. The goal then is not only to make money from a hobby but to find fulfillment and satisfaction in turning a hobby into an income-generating crafts business concern. In finding crafts that sell and hobbies that make money, you contribute not only to your own personal wealth you also contribute to your family income and even support your country's drive toward economic recovery. If you succeed in making your hobby a crafts business, you will provide employment for others. If your entrepreneurial drive for crafts that sell and hobbies that make money is particularly infectious, you can inspire others to also become entrepreneurs and empower them to find their own source of income from crafts that sell and hobbies that make money. Let's say that you have decided to make your hobby a profitable crafts business from your own home. What should you do first? How can you go about it? This book is dedicated to helping you realize this dream. It will teach you basic market research, home business product development and marketing techniques that you can apply to turn your crafts that sell and hobbies that make money into a veritable source of income and entrepreneurial satisfaction.




201 Craft Bazaar Best-sellers


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Laura Scott outlines a variety of craft ideas for all occasions and seasons to be sold at craft fairs or bazaars.