My name is Judy and I love anything crafty and artsy. There are so many talented people that just don't know how to get started in the craft business and I would love to help. I have just added a section on Needle Crafting that will help the beginner learn more about sewing and embroidering.
Below is a collection of free profitable business Craft guides. I also have hobby and craft guides posted. I hope you will find this easy to navigate and that you will bookmark me and return.
It doesn't
matter what type of craft you like to make, or what your favorite
hobby is. You will find something that will helpThe techniques provided in these issues of Profitable
Crafts (You will find this series toward the bottom) can be applied towards any craft, no matter what your
current skill.
Even
if you are not into making arts and crafts, you can still profit
in this market and these manuals show you how!
If you
can't paint, sew, crochet, knit or cross-stitch, that's perfectly
ok, you can still make money by selling original handcrafted
arts and crafts related items without sewing a single stitch
or painting a single brush stroke.
Also I have a selection of up to date free craft business guides to help show you how you can start that handmade crafting business... Enjoy...Also read the articles about creating candles and I will keep adding anything I think is related to home and family. There are children stories and some home remedies
I have been involved with one of the most creative craftswomen and her name is Eleanor or Itty to me and others that know her and we also call her Santa because that's her most favorite time of year and she is so very giving.
She is a wonderful woman and I respect her very much. She has always crafted and made money and always shared her arts and crafts and her love. This page is dedicated to Itty- With My Love
Articles for starting a Crafting Business-Tips/Guides
Beginners Basics For Crafting Business It is important that you don't go into the craft business for the wrong
reasons. If you are hoping to make a quick buck, then you've chosen the wrong
industry! It usually takes months to see a return on your investment and years
to start to see major profits from your hand made craft (if you ever do see
major profits).
How To Price Your Crafts Deciding on how to price your crafts is an important factor when beginning your
crafting business. The price of your crafts will increase or decrease the
amount of customers who will buy your crafts. The price can be determined
through several different factors
Create Nifty Packaging for Your Handmade Crafts Part of the attractiveness of making your own crafts will be in the material
that you choose to send it in. This is the first impression that the customer
will have of your product, making it essential to have the right packaging to
give or send the craft in. One of the options in packaging, if you decide not
to buy the packaging, is to make your own packages that are unique to your
crafting business and items.
Handmade Knitted Crafts Business Hand made knitted crafts is often a popular product among several different
types of people. They offer a quality and texture that is attractive to most.
Hand made items are also often more attractive to several different types of
people. If you know how to knit, making hand made knitted crafts for a
business can often become profitable.
Enjoy Your Handmade Craft Business f you began your own hand made craft business, then odds are you started it
because you enjoyed crafting and hoped to make some money from your hobby. To
survive in the craft business you absolutely have to love what you do.
Niche Marketing/Find Your Target Market When finding a way to promote your crafts, it is important to find a target
audience and niche that will be interested in your materials. This will
eliminate time and energy when trying to find the right places to go.
Trash to Treasure Crafts that Will Sell When it comes to crafts, do you tend to gravitate toward the unique, the
different, and the most eye-catching? Making crafts is not only a fun and
creative endeavor; it can also be quite lucrative.
How Not to Get Scammed No matter where you turn or where you look there is always a scam going on.
Business opportunities are one of the most abundant of all scams. One of the
biggest types of work opportunity that is going around is craft making scams.
Selling Crafts Online One way to consistently advertise your crafts and business is to build and
promote your own website. Websites are becoming a more popular way to conduct
business and allow exposure for sales and knowledge. Here are ten steps that
you can follow when building your own website.
How To Market Yourself Online The internet, just like every other aspect of the business, you need to market
yourself, your business and your products. Marketing on the internet is not
hard to do and is cost effective as well. Here we will have a look at what you
can do to get your internet marketing up and running so you too can have a good
amount of traffic on your business website.
You can achieve anything you focus on. It will transpire the way you want it to be. " Just Believe" If you can think it , you can do It !
I like to make money just as you do, but I also like to help spread the knowledge. I love giving information to help people because I know it will help me also. Remember the saying, "You reap what you sow" ? I am sowing seeds and you can join me. Help just one person and you will be surprised at the good energy that will come back to you.
Send any comments to info@grandmascraftguides.com or if you just want to let me know of anything I can help you with I will do my best.
Hobby / Craft Guides (29 Craft and Hobby Guides) Help for Mom and Dad with creative craft and hobby ideas for children and the whole family. Learn new ways to keep your family from getting bored and to relieve stress by starting a creative hobby or doing crafts.
Hobby Collectible Resources Everyone collects something maybe your collection is valuable, maybe it's sentimental, but we all gather certain things around us that we enjoy. I like Owls and Indian objects plus I have Nascar collectibles and baskets. I'm gonna have to move out of the house soon. No matter what you collect, you will pick up a tip or two with this selection of articles I have put together for you.
Grandmas' Children's Story Corner (25 stories) These are inspirational for young children. They teach small moral lessons in each story.
Self-Help and Motivation Articles on self help and motivation. Inspirational tips for happiness and hope. These are actually common sense articles, but it will always help to reinforce what we already know. April-2007 I have just added information to the selfhelp section concerning health and fitness. These articles deal with some issues that I have concerns about. Useful information for young and old alike.
Natural Remedies for Health Just added The Benefits of Honey...Both natural healers and traditional medical professionals have long noted the importance of vitamins. With the introduction of more and more natural remedies, people everywhere are seeing the benefits of using products that are derived from the earth as opposed to ingesting chemicals that are produced in a laboratory.
Vinegar For Your Health I'm not going to tell you that vinegar can cure
anything and everything that may be wrong with you, but it can help bring
relief or cure for a lot of common ailments.
Just added Grandma's Family Corner Information that seniors should know and family oriented articles. Family Corner
Holiday Planning / Interesting Ideas and Tidbits
Celebrating Festive Holidays See how some other countries celebrate Christmas. Find out the meaning behind some of our traditions.
I will be adding alot to this section on festive holidays and how to plan for them and some decorating tips and ideas. So keep checking back.
Grandma's Valentine's Day Advice Corner Don't know what to do this Valentine's Day ? Need a few ideas for gifts for your special Valentine. Maybe we can help.
Holiday Games and Activities For Everyone Have some fun with your Family and Friends when the Holidays roll around. Here are some activities and games that everyone can share in and have fun with. Different activities and games for a few of our different holidays.
Now
you too can rest assured knowing that your craft sales will
never slump again!
Learn wonderful techniques to increase your overall
profits and receive top selling project patterns for
some of today's best selling items.
Profitable Crafts
provides so much information related to maximizing your arts
& crafts profits that you'll never have to worry about if
your products will sell or not.
You'll create your
crafts with confidence knowing before hand that you're providing
items that people will buy, and pricing them perfectly for maximum
profits without ever having to lower your prices just because
you think lowering your prices will help your products sell
better. You Will Quickly
Learn How To
Create products
that sell so fast that you can barely keep up with your orders
Price your products
for maximum profits without confusion
Cut costs on your
materials without killing the quality of your products
Ensure that your
booth stays packed with paying customers
Stock your booth
effectively to increase sales
Cater to the needs
of two types of shoppers that are sorely neglected by most
crafters, and why you should cater to their needs for increased
sales
Provide super
fast items, and exactly what they are
Prevent your shoppers
from seeing your products as low quality and inferior, and
why lowering your prices could make them think just that
Barter and provide
layaway, and why you should never overlook these two methods
to increase sales and save money
How to convert
the 2 main types of shoppers into customers for life, and
why you shouldn't waste much time on the third type of shopper
Create small gifts
that's inexpensive to make, and how they could increase your
sales 100%
Never
become a "Fake" crafter
How to make personalized
cloth labels that will not be torn off your items
Increase your
profits by as much as 300% by implementing just this one tactic
before every show
Discover All
Of These Wonderful Techniques And More...
There is one mistake
that could be quite costly that you should never make when
creating your catalogs. Learn what this mistake is, and how
not to make it.
Discover the best
way to layout your catalogs products the first time, to ensure
that your catalogs look professional while providing a wide
variety of your best selling items.
Sometimes creating
a brochure would be your better choice, learn the reason why.
Did you know that
one mistake in shipping can not only cause you to loose profits,
but also sales?
Discover two affordable
programs that make catalog creation a breeze. No need for
expensive desktop publishing software!
Although you may
not be able to provide samples of your products, I share with
you some extremely cheap gift items that you can still provide
with your catalogs to help increase your sales even more,
and to help gain trust of those that receive your catalogs.
Learn a successful
method that will guarantee you a steady stream of new contacts
that you can mail your catalogs to, without the cost of expensive
contact database lists that sometimes run hundreds of dollars.
Learn about the
"Crazy Catalog" game, and how just one catalog can
generate you sales from as many as 20 different people! By
using one catalog instead of 20, you greatly reduce your printing
costs without loosing out on sales.
Create the perfect
one-dollar catalog full of one-dollar items, without needing
to create a single product! I share with you my source for
obtaining wonderful craft kits that are as low as .24 cents
per kit!
Learn step-by-step
exactly how to start recruiting others to sell for you, with
a sales team that is not only happy about promoting for you,
but that will help you gain new sales team members as well!
Learn what type
of kit to provide your sales force, to help them get off to
a successful start.
Discover how to
host the perfect home party, and feel free to share these
tips with your sales team members and hostesses.
How would you
like a sales force that stretches out across the nation! Learn
why having an online presence would be the best business decision
you could make to ensure the fast growth of your sales team!
See things with
a different perspective to help make designing easier
Design wonderful
products using normal every day household objects
Design crocheted
dresses for dolls quickly and easily without using a pattern
Make sewn clothing
for dolls that fit perfectly
Use things in
nature like sticks to create wonderful gifts for your loved
ones
Brainstorm so
that you can come up with many different designs from just
one object
Use nature to
help get your creative juices flowing
Improve your designing
skills by using something as simple as a spoon, can and pencil
Design in crochet
quickly and easily following just a few simple techniques
Design a wonderful
dollhouse, using nothing but sticks and cardboard
Approach storeowners
and convince most of them to sell your products for you
Protect yourself
by providing the proper type of agreement for consignment
sales
Stand back and
let your products sell themselves
Sell your products
even if you have no inventory pre-made
Determine why
sales could be slow in a particular store by just looking
at yards
Replace slow selling
items with items that are more suitable to a particular stores
location, to help increase your sales
Protect yourself
from paying hidden fees that some business owners may try
to charge you, for something that they shouldn't charge you
for at all
Protect your copyrights
on projects that you've designed
Create a simple
swap file that will save you an extreme amount of time when
you start submitting your designs for publication
Properly contact
magazine editors, to increase you chances of having your designs
accepted for publication
Properly submit
your designs to editors so that you won't get extremely embarrassed
as I did when I submitted my first design to a national publication
Self-Publish your
own designs affordably using your home computer
Follow a simple
12 step system to not only sell your designs successfully,
but also to properly research and test to make sure that your
designs will sell before you invest too much time and materials
in designing your projects
It doesn't
matter what type of craft you like to make, or what your favorite
hobby is. The techniques provided in this issue of Profitable
Crafts can be applied towards any craft, no matter what your
current skill.
When
designing your own projects and patterns, you will then become
the legal copyright holder for your designs and can then resell
your patterns and instructions for increased profits.
You'll
find such joy in designing your own projects once you devour
what's in this manual, that you may never use another's instructions
again!
Profitable Craft Series in PDF format. (4) These are digital Ebooks. Good Luck with your new endeavours.....You may download them instantly. You can grab these 4 plus 10 other niche products for only $27.00 at Judestore.com
A Bit About The Author
Maria
has been crocheting since she was 11 years old, and has over
15 years experience at selling at arts and crafts shows. When
she attends shows, she always receives visits from other crafters
that have booths at the same shows, asking her for advice when
they see her booth full 95% of the time with paying customers.
She
has mentored literally hundreds of crafters, both online and
off, and helped them turn their part time hobby into a profitable
full time business. She has not had a single person complain
about her techniques not working, even though she has over 10
years experience of providing her mentoring services for craft
related topics.
She
has over 13 years experience at designing her own crochet patterns
and other craft projects, and has had a number of her patterns
and projects published in nation wide magazines. She
has had one article published in a national magazine, and has
also won numerous awards for some of her best designs.
