How to Decide if a Craft Show is for You For 10 years I earned about a third of my annual income doing the craft show circuit. In that time I learned from a lot of mistakes. Some of my mistakes were dumb, others were costly. After a few years I’d made enough mistakes that …
Book Review “The One Thing”
Struggling with your business, fitting in wood turning, family pressures and the like? Want to know the secret to making it all work out? So did I. The One Thing, will give you the secret to finding that focus and creating a success in your life. What will this book do? It will help you …
4 Steps for Easier and Faster Wood Turning Production Runs
A little preparation will give you great benefits in your wood turning. These four steps will help you out. In a production run you need a source of wood and a breakdown of the specific processes of the product being turned. Each step of the project gives you a chance to increase your effectiveness and …
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Sales Receipt – What to Record
You have just sold three bowls and a wine bottle stopper. Having wrapped each item carefully you are now looking at a blank sales receipt and thinking… What information do you need to record on your sales? I found this a challenging question and I came up with a few surprising answers. 6 Pieces of …
Sales Training for the Artisan
Craft Fair Selling I’m sure you’ve experienced this. I certainly have. You are standing in your booth at an art show and a customer walks in. The customer looks at your products but doesn’t say anything or look at anything in particular. Your throat goes a bit dry. Your palms get sweaty. What do you …
5 Reasons That Appearance Matters
Our business was fibre. We had wool hats, angora mitts, silk scarves and turned fibre tools. Handmade and artisan designed and crafted. At a craft market you wore clothes that showed off your goods. Clean jeans or dress pants, of course. How about a hand spun, hand knit, one-of-a-kind sweater? What would be better than …
Why You Need a Business Page on Facebook
Often I go to Facebook to find other wood turners and can’t find them, because they have set their personal timeline as their Facebook business page. Unfortunately, fans cannot be accumulated on a personal timeline and to interact with my fellow woodturner, I need to send a friend request, or subscribe to their personal timeline. …
5 Initial Steps from Hobby to Business
Promotion of you and your work These five steps will help you move your hobby to a business, in a way that will allow you to continue enjoying your hobby and earn some money as well. Promotion of you and your work These five steps will help you move your hobby to a business, in …
Wholesale or Not Wholesale That is the Question.
At some point you will be approached to sell your work wholesale. It will usually be applied to your lower priced items, the price value will be 50% or half of retail, and the person is going to want large quantities of your work. For this post I will use my wine bottle toppers …
