500 Tips for Marketing Your Crafts

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.

The author has been making a living with his crafts since 1978, selling his handmade jewelry and wood creations at over 300 shows and fairs in 28 states, to 40 craft galleries, and online from his websites. Three printings of this book have sold out and now this updated book is available as an ebook for 1/3 of the printed version's price.