by A. B. Petrow (Author)
Product Description This is a collection of marketing tips by and for artists and craftspeople to help you sell what you make. If you want to make money with your crafts, these solutions might save you many hours of time or thousands of dollars. This book includes hundreds of tips about how to find craft fairs, how to get into them, and how to survive them and make money. Also covered is taking credit cards, avoiding theft, taking your own photographs, making your own display and anchoring it, and traveling to shows by road or air. If you want to wholesale there are suggestions for designing your trade show booth and marketing your crafts to craft galleries and other wholesale markets. There are tips for selling on the internet, putting your crafts on a web catalog, making your own website, and selling on ebay. There is also advice for pricing your crafts, bookkeeping, selling, advertising, promotion, packaging, copyright, health, computers, taxes, sales reps, etc.
Author Biography
Author A. B. Petrow, a professional craftsperson for 29 years, has authored four other books about craft marketing. He has been writing spreadsheet templates for small business for over fifteen years, while selling his handmade woodwork and jewelry in 300+ craft fairs in 29 states and placing his wood products in 42 craft galleries. He has also designed commercial websites for artists and sells regularly on eBay and etsy. He lives in Sonoma County, in Northern California.