Design Surface Patterns From Scratch
Bonnie Christine
get your goods into stores.
Selling your products at local art shows and craft fairs is a great way to network in your community, but it’s not the easiest way to grow your business. Landing your products on the shelves at boutiques or other retailers is the key to success. Join designer, educator and wholesaler Megan Auman to learn how to navigate the complex wholesale market like a pro and get your goods into stores everywhere, by learning how to sell your products to retailers..
Drawing on her own experiences selling her products, Megan will take you step-by-step through the terminology, policies, pricing strategies, product creation and even distribution methods that you need to successfully work with retailers. You’ll learn everything you need to know about the two parts of a wholesaler’s target market: the store buyer and the eventual retail customer. Megan will also help you navigate the tradeshow landscape. You’ll gain an understanding of buying cycles, finding the right shows, designing a booth, creating and promoting your tradeshow line, and preparing line sheets and catalogs.
Whether you’re an Etsy seller who’s ready to diversify their product line, or a long-time wholesaler ready to expand, this course on selling to retailers will give you concrete, easy-to-apply tools for using wholesaling to bring your products to a larger audience.
if I pay $ 5 for the material and try to sell it for $30 and suggesting that I can do it....no thanks...we need to give some credit to the customers...they are not the clueless about things that purchases...I will pay $1000 for a photography but never to a neckless made out off a raffia bcs it is sold in a high end store...
I got so much value from this course. It is very comprehensive and Megan's a great teacher!
Megan is awesome! I love her teaching style and all of her courses. I am just starting a new craft business and looking into wholesale. This course gave me so much useful information.
So many relevant examples. I have pages and pages of notes and so excited to get started.
This class is SAVING THE DAY! It's my first Creative Live class and now the bar is set uber high. It is obvious that Megan worked incredibly hard creating this content. What I've learned is already creating value for my business and it's only been 4 days! If only I had found it last year. Great job everyone!
This was the most useful class I've taken on CreativeLive. It has had a huge impact on how I approach selling my work. When I signed up, I had been participating in craft markets and maintaining an online shop for about a year. I wondered if wholesale was something that could work for me. After going through this content, I have a better understanding of what it would be like to sell to stores in this way and the steps I need to get started. This course helped me to refine my pricing (something that was immediately applicable!), to hone my product copy to reflect my ideal customers, to develop my first wholesale catalog and line-sheet, and to feel confident about approaching stores. I highly, highly, highly recommend this class to anyone looking to grow their maker business.
As a beginner this was an excellent class that hit all the components of wholesaling. I've always wondered if I wanted to wholesale and now it's clear to me that I want and can give it a shot. I'll feel very prepared to hit the marketplace after watching this series. Thanks Megan!
Love her - such solid classes. Great content, great examples & super helpful!
This is an awesome class. I own a skincare brand and I found it to be too good. I never write reviews but I am in middle of doing the work book, but I felt compelled to write a review because of the content.
This webinar is PRICELESS. I'm a jewelry designer of 6.5 years with a successful business; I have focused mostly on retail shows, like festivals and events to grow my business. Although I have a few wholesale accounts, I knew it was time to bring my business to the next level and that means growing my wholesale business in a much bigger way and getting it in front of more people. Megan makes it very easy! She is thorough and knowledgeable. This is a great A to Z guide. She really covers it all, no matter what your business ( not just jewelry). After watching, I immediately applied her advice to my business and withing 5 or 6 weeks I was accepted into a huge tradeshow, NY NOW. I know this webinar made that possible! I'm going in about 10 days and I know this is going to catapult my business to a new level. I will always look back on this webinar and see it as a fork in the road towards a whole new path for my business. Thank you, Megan, for sharing your knowledge and talent for helping others!
Excellent class!! In this course Megan really gets to the root of the matter, which is most customers are willing to pay any amount as long as they have a great experience with your product. Megan deals with every business owner and challenges us to price our products at the right price. Outstanding class!!
This class is fantastic. It really opened my eyes about needing to raise my prices, which I've been hesitant to do for the longest time, until I watched this class. I realized by not raising my prices, my business wasn't sustainable and I was limiting its growth. Thank you to Megan for pushing me to grow my business.
This class is a game changer! Ultra thorough with the information and lots of inside secrets from someone who has actually done it - can't ask for more.
This was the most useful class I've aver saw on Creativelive and anywhere else. So much information on every aspect of wholesale business for creatives: branding and packaging, sales pitch, line-sheet, everything is covered. I love Megan's classes because she always gives practical advice ​and a clear plan what to do.
If you've ever considered selling your art or product at craft fairs or to retailers, this course is a step-by-step blueprint that teaches you exactly how to do it! Megan doesn't leave anything out, she is so candid with her information and trade secrets!
I came across one of Megan's class on Creative live as there were re-broadcasting it and after watching it until 3am in the morning as i didn't want to miss anything I was like this is the woman i want to be and bought a few of her classes.
I continue to recommend this course to people that ask me about selling to retailers. I think it is great, and I keep re-watching different segments to keep moving forward with my business. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom, Megan. You never disappoint!
I cannot believe how much I learned from this course! I just completed my first wholesale trade show this past weekend and had seasoned sellers around me telling me I was putting them to shame. I have so much more work to do, but this course gave me the tools to propel my small, handmade business forward. THANK YOU MEGAN!!!
This course totally rocks! SO much information to get you launched in wholesale, that you will watch it over and over. She is straight forward and does not leave gaps in her information, and if there are questions, she has a facebook! Love it!
I'm very impressed with the course! Would absolutely recommend it. I've done a few wholesale shows but this was absolutely valuable all around.
Megan ROCKS! I have been watching this class for weeks and am still learning new things every time I turn it on. I couldn't have asked for a better intro into wholesaling as well as to Creative Live. Seriously. This is awesome!
Megan Auman shares her expertise generously in this outstanding e-course. With this information I feel very prepare to launch my wholesale business. This class is an excellent value!
This class is beyond fantastic - exactly all the information I've been searching for! Megan is a wonderful teacher - clear, concise, personable, and incredibly knowledgeable. She's organized all the information to be easily understood and digested, and then broken it down with doable action steps and examples from real life. This was, by far, the best money I've ever spent on marketing and learning where my business needs to go - Megan is amazing and once again CreativeLive delivered fantastic and inspiring content. Can not recommend this class highly enough.
I'm about 1/2 through the my purchased download and despite the fact that some pages of the workbook aren't covered by the video, this is excellent and meaty information for the maker ready to dive into wholesale, like me. Day one alone was well worth the money. As always, Megan delivers. She is clear and easy to understand and its obvious that she knows her stuff. I love that she shares her own experiences because its encouraging to see where she started and what she's learned. It adds validity to her advice. Thanks Megan, Creative Live and the "live" studio audience - I'm really learning a lot.
I am LOVING this course. I've downloaded it and am savoring each and every class. Thank you Megan for putting together such a great resource (at an unbelievable price).
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