5 Ways to Make More Etsy Sales Now
Despite what you make have heard you can still make a solid living from selling your handcrafted goods on Etsy. The site is home to 31.7 million active buyers, 1.9 million active sellers, and 45 million products. In 2016, gross merchandise sales reached $2.84 billion….
How to Make Your Craft Business Stand Out in a Crowded Market
The advent of Etsy and other online marketplaces has raised an important question among crafters: With hundreds of thousands of handmade businesses and tens of thousands makers selling their wares, how do you stand out in the crowd? How can your tiny company find it’s…
Are You Ready to Start a Handmade Business? This Infographic Can Help You Decide
Does your family tell you that your chocolate chip cookies are the best ever? If so, I bet at some point someone has advised you to consider setting up a cookie shop. While that may seem like a sweet idea, jumping into entrepreneurship is a…
Etsy Alternatives: Options for Selling Your Handmade Goods Online
Etsy is the go-to online marketplace for handmade goods, but it isn’t the only option out there. After all, Etsy is huge, and it can be extremely hard to get customers to notice you. Nearly 30 billion global buyers spent over $2.8 billion on the…
Crafter’s Guide: How to Sell Products on Amazon
Move on over, Etsy. Amazon recently launched a holiday gift shop, allowing artists and crafters to sell their handmade gifts to customers, and this guide will tell you exactly how to sell products on Amazon. The gift shop, called Amazon Handmade, lets shoppers support small…
Master the Business of Making: 9 Classes Guaranteed to Transform Your Creative Career
CreativeLive has a whole catalog of classes designed to spark your creativity and empower you to build a business and life you love. With so many classes to choose from it can be hard to know where to start, which is why we’ve assembled a…
DIY Business Tips: The Best Way to Make More Money on Every Sale
Expanding your handmade business can involve some real growing pains at times. When you are selling to retail shops, indie craft fairs, and maintaining an e-commerce site, you may find that not only is your time stretched thin but so is your bank account. Maintaining your bottom line…
10 Tips for Launching Your Handmade Business
You know your handmade products are great, and you’re pretty sure you’d like to share them with the world — but how? In Start a Handmade Business, I help walk you through the various online sales venues (like Etsy) that you can use, as well as…
Windy Chien on Pricing and Selling Handmade Goods
Artist and maker Windy Chien has never been one to follow a typical life path. She happily admits that she’s probably had three or four lives before going out on her own to start her handmade business, where she’s best known for her eclectic, hand-carved…
Craft Studio Tour: Iona Handcrafted Books
Bookbinder Mychal Mitchell fell into her career accidentally. Or maybe it’s more apt to say that a thief pushed her into it. While on a trip to Rome her backpack was stolen, along with her journal. She was understandably upset, but then an Italian friend took her to a…
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