Remember my Reader Survey? I heard you loud and clear: oodles of you crafters out there are interested in turning your knitting/crocheting into either a part or full-time business!
So, today… I’ve rounded up a collection of blog posts that you’re going to want to read!
Business Planning
- Get off the Internet and Grow your Business by Designing an MBA
- Tips for Managing Freelance Work
- 7 Social Media Sites for your Yarn-y Business
- 5 Crucial Considerations when Starting your Craft Business
- 5 Surprising Reasons your Handmade Business isn’t Making Money
- Making a Sustainable Living from Pattern Design from CraftyPod
Advice for Craft Shows
- How to Apply to Craft Shows by Urban Uprising
- Wowing a Craft Show Jury by Hello Craft
- Craft Show Applications Unravelled by Etsy
- Craft Show Tips from Kitty Baby Love
- Tips for Selling at Craft Fairs
Selling your Items
- The Art of Pricing for Profit from Etsy Success Online Labs (video)
- Tips on Selling Handmade Crafts from Love of Knitting
- Holiday Tips for your Shop from Quiltish
- How NOT to Price your Handmade Goods by Stitch Craft Create
- Managing Custom Orders from Etsy
- A Designer’s Perspective on the Sale of Items from Patterns
- Canadian Shipping Demystifyed from Etsy
Photographing your Items
- Photography Tips for Crafters from Croq Zine
- A Few Photo Tips from Ruffles and Stuff
- How to Create a Seamless White Background (with links to the Photography Blog Hop!
- Create Your Own Backgrounds for your Pictures from Lemon Squeezy Home
- Creating a Simple Studio for Photography by Eyeballs by Day, Crafts by Night
- 5 Easy Photography Tips
Tips on Teaching your Craft
- Good Teaching = Stating your Automatic Moves Explicitly
- 7 Tips for Teaching Kids to Knit or Crochet
- Using Dropbox to Organize Teaching Materials
So… is there some business planning in your New Year plans?
Wow THANK YOU for putting these together, especially the photography and business sections. Although I am a yarn & fabric supply shop, I do host guilds, teach basic classes and make a few handmade things to try to promote my shop. Great tips :)
Thanks for sharing this roundup!
Hi Stacey! This is a FANTASTIC roundup! There IS business planning in my 2013, so I’ll be using this post a lot.
A teaser about my upcoming plans, and a question: How do you feel about crocheting plushies with handspun yarn? :)
That’s such a great question about the handspun! I’ve done it before, and the effect can be fabulous! In my opinion, you’d want a handspun of mostly uniform thickness… since in general, plushies made with thick/thin yarn wind up with holes that stuffing pokes through on the thin yarn bits.
Go for it!
This is a wonderful and very helpful post. Some of the links, unfortunately, seem to be broken. =(
@Marion- Oopsies! Sorry about that! I had forgotten to put ‘http://’ in front of some of the links. All fixed now!