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Business Tips
Business Tips has advice on running your handmade business from experienced crafters on all topics related to the craft business world.

By giftrepsandy@gmail.com

Preparing the materials and systems needed for your first gift sales presentations is the most important task you need to accomplish before visiting your first potential retail store buyer. Most people assume the hardest work goes into making the...
By Rachel Newhouse

You know you’re a creator of exquisite handmade goods. You know your product sells. You know you’ve found your bliss. But, what are you?
Many artists/crafters don’t give much thought to the way their business is structured; they simply create. Business...
By Diana Gonzalez

As a child, my mother always told me never to look up to anyone; she told me that people always let you down, but a faith in God (or a higher power) is something that is constant and never changing....
By Rachel Newhouse

You started out buying a few supplies and before you knew it, you were selling your handmade creations. Formally financing your business was probably nowhere near the top of your to-do list. After all, you were selling enough to be...
By Jenn Joyner

I know a lot of our readers are already selling on many of the online venues available to handmade artisans. However, I’m sure there are some that have never taken the leap to making that first listing, because they aren’t...
By Jenn Joyner

This is going to be hard to hear, and it’s going to be hard to say. This is not advice that I like, nor is it advice that’s easy to take, but it needs to be said: Get out of...
By Rachel Newhouse

Every business has policies. Most of them are set up to help prevent problems and ensure that the business keeps running smoothly. It’s not only the large businesses that need to have these in place. For the independent artist or...