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Author : Donald A. Clark
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Handicraft
ISBN : 9781579906504
Author : Stephanie Ennis
Publisher : Zen Mastery Srl
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 6069837541
Crafting: The Ultimate Guide on How to Make a Living From Crafting, Learn Different Arts and Crafts That Can Help You Earn Cash Are you a crafty person? Are you into making different arts and crafts projects for fun? How about making some money out of all these arts and crafts projects? You might have noticed that craft shows are everywhere nowadays and if you are a serious crafter, you can take this as an opportunity to earn some serious money. Before turning your hobby into a money-making business, you need to make sure you arm yourself with all the essential information you need so that you have a perfect idea of what you're getting into before you start. This book will teach you everything you need to know when you want to make money from your arts and crafts projects. You will learn the do's and don't, and the ins and outs on how to do business using your hobby. You will discover the ways on how you can turn your crafting hobby into a business that can earn you good money. This book will discuss the following topics: Arts and Crafts Basics Main Types of Crafts Creating a Concept Supplies and Skills Marketing For an Arts and Crafts Business Arts and Crafts Fairs Successful Business Mindset If you've been crafting for years and have even sold some pieces here or there, it can be time to seriously consider making a full-fledged business out of it. It can be a sideline for you or a main source of income. The decision is up to you but the market is there and you have an opportunity to make some serious money from it. If you want to learn more about how you can earn money from your crafting business, scroll up and click "add to cart" now.
Author : Amy Sedaris
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781455584437
The New York Times bestselling craft guide that inspired the hit new TV show, At Home With Amy Sedaris It's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In Simple Times, Amy Sedaris sets the record straight and delivers a book that will forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters. You will discover how to make popular crafts such as Pompom Ringworms and Seashell Toilet Seat Covers, all while avoiding the most common crafting accidents (sawdust fires, feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat). You will cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, with many more recipes and craft ideas that will inspire you to create your very own hastily constructed obscure d'arts. Praise for Simple Times "Amy Sedaris is a kookier, kitschier version of Martha Stewart...Simple Times is an ideal gift for the crafter who has crafted everything." - Associated Press "A wildly cheeky guide." -- InStyle "For anyone who's ever collected hats crocheted together...or simply for fans of Amy Sedaris and her idiosyncratic sense of humor." -- New York Times Book Review
Author : Steph Hung,Erin Jang
Publisher : Roost Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781611801484
Presents step-by-step, illustrated instructions for thirty-five simple projects covering a wide range of techniques, from sewing to paper cutting to painting, including candy board games, nickname handkerchiefs, and hand-drawn pillows.
Author : Margo Price,Andrew Allen Moore
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1500151920
"How to Make a Living from Crafts" provides a fundamental blueprint for anyone running, or thinking of running, their own craft business. It tackles the major dilemma faced by crafts people: how to convert infrequent craft sales into a regular income. By showing you how to create multiple income streams and pass on your skills and knowledge to others, the book explains how you really can turn your hobby into a paying job.In this book, Margo Price shares her tried-and-tested techniques, perfected from over ten-year's experience of running her own sewing business "Time4me Workshops". While sewing is used as the example, the practical ideas presented in this book make essential reading for anyone hoping to make a living from any type of craft.Find out how to turn your hobby into a businessConverting your hobby into a money-making operation isn't always a smooth transition. You will need to change your attitude, get serious and act professional. To make a living in a craft business you must adopt a business-like attitude, become more focused on money and profits, and take a objective look at what it is you produce, and why.Learn how to make crafts that will make you moneyIt's easy to get attached to your work and think everyone will have the same warm fuzzy feelings about your creations as you do. Think again. The biggest mistake is to make what you want rather than making what people want to buy. As with any new product or service, testing the market is key to your success.Discover how to make a fair profit for your creationsHow much should you charge? Most people can't tell you the cost, overhead, or the time put into a making a craft item. When pricing your crafts be sure you include your time and expenses and ask for a price that will make you a profit. This is crucial to your success.Learn how to advertise your craft and your businessWhile craft fairs are a good place to test and sell your wares, you must also have a presence on the internet. But, although it's tempting to think that once you are on the internet, people (and sales) will find you. They won't. You need to advertise yourself. There are numerous ways to do this and many are free.Find out whether you really need your own websiteHaving your own website can be expensive unless you (or a friend) have the skills and time to do it. There are ways to become part of an already established website, set-up your own online shop - and all for free. But don't think you won't have to promote it. Constant promotion, both online, using social media, and offline, is key.Discover how to get your own online shop - FOR FREETurning a seasonal craft business into a year-round stable income can be a difficult transition to make unless you get creative about how you are going to sell yourself and how you are going to get repeat business from your customers. A common mistake amongst crafters is failing to look after the needs of their existing customers.Learn how to create multiple income streamsDon't get locked into the thought that the only way you can make money in crafting is to sell the products you've made. Some of the most successful crafters also write, teach, sell their designs or publish their own books. Teaching is a great way to make money in the crafting field.Learn how to make teaching the bedrock of your businessIn addition to explaining the easiest way to run your craft business, this book explains the best way to organise and run your craft classes (or workshops), whether from your own home, the garden shed or some other local venue.Other books by this author include: "How to Sew with Confidence", "How to Get Started in Free-Machine Embroidery", "How to Dye Your Own Fabrics" and "How to Design & Make Fabulous Cushions".
Author : Kelly Rand,Christine Ernest,Sara Dick,Kimberly Dorn
Publisher : Potter Craft
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780307587114
Business advice for enterprising crafters, by crafters No one knows more about helping handmade businesses than Hello Craft, the nonprofit trade association for crafty entrepreneurs. Written by the directors of Hello Craft, Handmade to Sell is the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative guide for DIYers seeking to learn every aspect of selling, marketing, and branding. Based on the Summit of Awesome, Hello Craft’s annual business conference, this book covers topics including: • Developing successful product lines • Copyrights and trademarks • Taking perfect product shots • Using analytics to boost your online sales • Selling at fairs, shows, and other retail outlets • Diversifying income through licensing and teaching • Hiring and outsourcing Throughout, you’ll find expert tips and invaluable strategies and advice from some of the most successful indie crafters and artisans. Whether you’ve only contemplated selling your crafts or want to grow an existing handmade business, Handmade to Sell offers essential guidance for anyone who has ever dreamed of making a living from what they create.
Author : Donna J. Rilling
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812235800
How entrepreneurial housebuilders fueled a rapid economy. "A well-written and easily read business book with a historical perspective, quite fit for a general readership interested in the history of American enterprise."—APT Bulletin
Author : Maria Ågren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190240639
What do people do all day? What did women and men do to make a living in early modern Europe, and what did their work mean? As this book shows, the meanings depended both on the worker and on the context. With an innovative analytic method that is yoked to a specially-built database of source materials, this book revises many received opinions about the history of gender and work in Europe. The applied verb-oriented method finds the 'work verbs' that appear incidentally in a wide variety of early modern sources and then analyzes the context in which they appear. By tying information technologies and computer-assisted analysis to the analytic powers--both quantitative and qualitative--of professional historians, the method gets much closer to a participatory observation of the micro-patterns of early modern life than was once believed possible. This book directly addresses a number of broad problems often debated by historians of gender and early modern Europe. First, it discusses the problem of assessing more accurately the incidence, character and division of work. Second, it analyzes the configurations of work and human difference. Third, it deals with the extent to which work practices created notions of difference--gender difference but also other forms of difference--and, conversely, to what extent work practices contributed to notions of sameness and gender convergence. Finally, it studies the impact of processes of change. Drawing on sources from Sweden, the authors show the importance of multiple employment, the openness of early modern households, the significance of marriage and marital status, the gendered nature of specific tasks, and the ways in which state formation and commercialization were entangled in people's everyday lives.
Author : Kelly Biscopink
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781440240065
Turn your crafting into a career! 2015 Crafter's Market is the perfect start to your crafting career. Thousands of artists and writers have relied on us to develop their careers and navigate the changing landscape of their fields using our sister publications, Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market and Writer's Market. For the first time, that same resource is available for crafters! The 2015 Crafter's Market introduces a whole world of possibilities for marketing your craft! Expand your business with these resources: • Complete, up-to-date information for more than 1,000 craft market resources, including craft shows, magazines, book publishers, online marketplaces and more! • Markets for a variety of crafts, including quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, papercrafting and jewelry making. • Articles on the basics of freelancing--from basic copyright information to tips on promoting your work. • Informative articles on social media marketing, wholesale and consignment sales and pricing your crafts. • Inspiring and informative interviews with successful craft professionals such as Tula Pink and Margot Potter.
Author : Talia Schaffer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195398045
Examines four novels that feature domestic handcrafts and how they shaped Victorian life and the Victorian novel.
Author : Alison McNicol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1908707011
Wish you could turn your talent for making lovely things into cash? Bored of the 9 to 5 and dreaming of starting your own crafty business, but not sure where to start? Then this is the book for you ! The Craft Business Handbook has ALL the information you need to get started making money from your crafts - NOW ! From setting up as a proper business, producing and pricing your goods for maximum sales and profit, to the various options for selling online, at craft fairs, trade shows and getting your products into retailers, right through to gaining magazine coverage, promoting your business online and managing your business as it grows, this is THE essential guide for any would-be crafty entrepreneur! Whether you're just considering getting started with a crafty business idea, or already selling your wares and looking for ways to grow your business ( think sales reps, fulfillment houses and more!), this handy book - written by craft business expert Alison McNicol - shares tons of insider tips, practical information, and shows how you too can achieve Craft Business success! PLUS - some of the most successful crafty business people around share their stories - how they started and grew their successful craft businesses - prepare to be inspired with in-depth interviews from some of your favorite crafty entrepreneurs around! About The Author Alison McNicol is a serial crafty entrepreneur who has launched several successful craft businesses, selling her products in stores worldwide. She is also the author of several successful craft and craft business books, and founder of The Craft Business Community.com, an online community that provides resources and networking opportunities for crafty entrepreneurs from all over the world. Alison is also author of Craft Business Heroes: How We Did It ( 30 Creative Entrepreneurs Share the Secrets of Their Success)- a companion book to the Craft Business Handbook, featuring 30 more interviews from leading craft entrrepreneurs - Amy Butler, Amy Karol, Sublime Stitching's Jenny Hart, Subversive Cross Stitch founder Julie Jackson and tons more !
Author : Gad G. Gilbar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000740196
Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim tujjār (big merchant-entrepreneurs). Foreign firms and local minorities were considered the prime agents of economic change and the initiators of economic growth. The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim tujjār played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their investments, mainly in commercial agriculture, resulted in economic growth and changed economic structures and social relations in many Middle Eastern communities. They were also involved in political developments, some of which had a dramatic effect on the history of their countries, as for instance in late Qajar Iran. They also played a unique role in the process of cultural change. Although they supported the ʿulamāʾ financially, they also contributed to the establishment of new educational and cultural institutions. The story of the tujjār is unique in the sense that it was the only indigenous elite group in the pre-World War I Middle East to bridge between traditional forces and concepts and Western attitudes and practices. (CS 1108).
Author : Anders S. Lunde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486400492
More than two dozen traditional and original models of the wind-powered toys known as whirligigs appear in this how-to manual. Easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations.
Author : Helle Bundgaard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136806254
This beautifully illustrated book explores the opinions of artists, critics and others involved with arts or crafts, arguing for a theory that considers the different discursive formations and related strategic practices of an art world. Focusing on Orissan patta paintings in India the author examines the local, regional and national discourses involved. In so doing, the text demonstrates that, while painters' local discourses are characterised by pragmatism, the discourses of regional and especially national elites are concerned with the exegesis of local paintings and their association with the great Sanskrit tradition A central theme of the study focuses on the awards given for skill in craft making and their changing significance as they pass from national and regional elites to local painters. It is shown how certain key actions by local painters result from a clash between local discourses on the one hand and regional and national discourses on the other.
Author : Margot Coatts
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 0719050596
Pioneers of modern craft profiles key figures in the history of contemporary twentieth-century crafts. It focuses on the lives and times of prominent individuals who were (or became) influential throughout the pre- and post-war periods in Britain, such as David Pye, Gerald Benney, Gerda Flockinger, Edward Barnsley and William Staite Murray.
