Category: The Business of Crafting

Results Are In For Florida Folk Festival

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We worked our butts off getting ready for the Florida Folk Festival this year and we sweated the whole three days. From what I gathered from some of the other participants last year they got stormed out. With temperature in the low 100s all three days it did affect attendance…

Crafts and Specialty Shows

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As another post in our series on treating your crafts business like a business we will tell you about our experience with this year’s Infinity Con in Lake City, Florida the first weekend in March every year. Infinity Con Mar 2019 Vendor Fee $110.50 Infinity Con Revenue Scrunchie $6.00 Earrings…

Setting Up Our Own Shop

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This weekend is the initial opening of our very own little shop. We decided to open one so that we had a place to show and store all our handcrafted items on a more permanent basis. Granted, April really isn’t a good time to setup a shop in the central-west…

Music and Crafts Festivals

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As part of our “Sell Your Own Crafts” business series we will be including a frank discussion on being vendors at local crafts and music festivals in the North Florida region. Now, this is by no means an absolute findings are attending these events in this area of Florida for…

Starting Your Own Craft Business

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Your New Year’s Goal is to start your very own crafting business but you really don’t know where to start. You can benefit from our experiences over the last 7 years. First off, you might want to grab a copy of this eBook series we offer on our sister site,…

Be Aware of Vendor Event Deadlines

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As handcraft artists who sell their items to the public we have to schedule our time as wisely as possible to attend events that fit with the crafts we sell, to the audience we hope to reach and in the areas that we are willing to travel and, finally, during…

Upcoming Fall Events

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Over the next couple of weeks there are lots of different opportunities to share your handcrafted items with lots of different people. Some of these opportunities are somewhat expensive to join in and be vendors but those are the ones with the most people attending. A couple of them have…

Inexpensive Ways to Promote Your Craft Business

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There are inexpensive and even FREE ways to promote your craft business. One of the first you should consider is creating a separate public PAGE on Facebook. If you have a personal Facebook page now it is very simple to create a separate page for your handcraft business. You can…

Response to Craft Vending Opportunities This Fall

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We received a couple of responses for craft vending opportunities so far this month. Sadly, they are not within the North Florida area but we are posting them just in case you would like to participate anyway or know of craft vendors in the area who who like to participate….

Help With Social Media Marketing

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Self-marketing your handcrafted products is pretty much a given. Unless, of course, you have a larger budget than most of us do, you will have to do all of the marketing yourself. There are a couple of ways for us normal folks but most of it boils down to your…

eCommerce Software – Online Store Lesson 3

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eCommerce Software that will create and run your online store can be as simple or as complex as any other. The simple ones allow you to create a few product pages on your website such as the code offered by Paypal. You create a listing on your Paypal account, they…

Your Own Online Shop Lesson 2

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When you are considering selling your items online the most tried and true method has always been to sign-up with Etsy, HandmadeArtists, Amazon Handmade, eBay or some other kind of big named online store that charges fees to list your items (perhaps), monthly fees and/or commissions on any sales you…

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