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It's an exciting new world for crafters. Handmade is hip, creativity is what the market wants, and there are many profitable sales opportunities that didn't exist a few short years ago. For crafters who have more confidence running a sewing machine than setting up a Web site, "The Handmade Marketplace" breaks down and makes sense of the global possibilities for marketing and selling crafts.
4) Grow your handmade business: How to Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business
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Addresses all aspects of turning a creative interest into a profitable business, covering business planning, licensing, budgeting, time management, and legal issues.
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Etsy is the premiere online marketplace for distinctive handmade and vintage crafts and goods. Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies, Fourth Edition provides you with the information and tools you need to start selling successfully on Etsy. This comprehensive resource and guide will show you how easy it is to set up shop and start generating income. There's never been a better time to open your own Etsy shop, and there's never been an easier way than...
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One year, for Christmas, I bought my wife a sewing machine. She nearly threw it at me. I offered her a $200 gift card in exchange for the machine, I'd get to keep it. She agreed. I taught myself how to sew, started using the power of the internet to start a profitable home-based sewing business, and today, well, I have made a lot of money from that sewing machine (a lot more than $200...lol). It is funny how one mistake can turn out to be a whole...
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The Old English word "craeft" signified knowledge, skill, wisdom, and resourcefulness. Today, in the wake of industrialization, people are again seeking products made with authenticity -- artisan breads, local honey, craft beers, furniture and other goods made by human hands. Archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Landlands travels from his home in Wales along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe learning a wide range of traditional manual skills,...
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Your go-to resource for selling your craft goods part-time, full of ideas for setting up and selling out. Find out how to: discover your expectations and motivations; set up shop and get paid; join an indie craft show; get some press; package goods and customer service; balance life and crafts. Plus, business forms, lists of resources and a directory of indie craft shows.--From publisher description.
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"As we know them today, the American Southwest, and the Grand Canyon that lies at its heart, are the product of vast natural forces over millions of years. But they were also created by one man s vision and a railroad. The entrepreneurial genius was Fred Harvey. The Colt .45 revolver may have won the West, but Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe Railway made it comfortable. In the late nineteenth century, the Santa Fe opened up a strange, spectacular new...