2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Crafter in Your Life

Being a crafter and selling on Etsy requires for a special combination of skill, effort, and style. It also requires a whole lot of hard work and that effort deserves to be rewarded!

If you are wondering what to buy the crafter entrepreneur in your life, here is a list of classes and gifts that will appeal to their good taste and ensure they have the skills they need to thrive.

1. Turn Your Etsy® Shop into a Sales Machine

This class offers an in-depth education on taking advantage of Etsy as a platform for making real $$$.

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2. Etsy® 101: Launch Your Handmade Shop

This beginner’s guide to Etsy offers insights on important Etsy policies and protocol and reviews everything a prospective seller needs to know to thrive.

3. Bookkeeping for Etsy® Sellers

This class teaches Etsy sellers how to manage their transactions, inventory, and expenses and covers integrating Etsy transactions into overall small-business bookkeeping.

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4. SEO for Etsy®

In SEO for Etsy, Marlo Miyashiro details the non-scary, non-techy actions you take to help put your goods in front of more people online.

5. Marketing Your Etsy® Shop for Sold-out Success

This class teaches makers how to talk about their products in a way that gets people excited to buy. It also covers how to gain exposure and build a business plan.

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6. Contra Pendant

Artisan and educator, Megan Auman, makes the bold jewelry found in the Contra Collection in her Pennsylvania studio. Each piece in the collection is handcrafted, hearty, and a total stunner.

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7. Over-Sized Tote

Made by crafters in India, this tote is “Made with A Purpose” and is hand-sewn by low-income women in India. The organization selling the totes aims to break the cycle of poverty and help women create a sustainable income.

8. glassybaby

These gorgeous handmade glass votives and “drinkers” are crafted by West Coast artisans and each sale benefits charity.

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9. Stark Ceramics

Stoneware is very on trend and all of the gorgeous pieces from Stark Ceramics are handmade in San Francisco. Best Feature? You can pop it in the oven or load it into the dishwasher and it’ll hold up.

10. Custom Embosser

A personalized embosser adds serious pizzazz to paper crafts and makes mailing letters, oh-so-sophisticated. You can order a customized imprint from this embossing shop on Etsy.

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