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The Savvy Crafters Guide To Success

The Savvy Crafters Guide To Success: Turn Your Crafts Into A Career

Lots of people love crafts. Crafting is a great hobby that can turn into a business. If you have something that you love to do, then it is a great thing to turn that into a business that will generate money for you. A crafter can usually work at home or anywhere he or she wants to and then sell the crafts either from home, online, or at retail stores. There are many ways to sell your craft products and there are many ways to advertise. The Savvy Crafters Guide To Success: Turn Your Crafts Into A Career is a great guide for anyone looking to turn their craft hobby into a business and a career. It is written by a professional crafts person, for the want-to-be professional crafter.

Not just about selling your crafts, but successful career building–covers aspects of teaching and finding arenas in which to promote yourself and your work.

Very first full-color visual guide to making money with your crafts.

Experienced crafters–the ones who make their living at making, selling, and teaching crafts–are constantly answering questions such as “What did you do before this?” and ” How did you start making a living and how can I get that job?” For many crafters, selling their art and teaching others how to do it–full time–is just a dream. The Savvy Crafter’s Guide to Success guides crafters through the maze of the world of crafting with pertinent information on how to build and maintain a craft business; how to teach the best arts and craft classes; how to write regularly for craft/home publications; how to get your designs sold; plus explains the ins and outs of the business of crafts.

In addition, the book features profiles and interviews with a diverse range of crafters who have found their own way to building a successful crafting business.

About the Author

Freelance artist Sandra McCall has been making art since majoring in commercial art. She quickly decided that the field was too restrictive for her and began working in multi-medium art and assemblage while paying the bills with a job as an accountant. She began making her original drawings and eraser carvings into rubber stamps and eventually found a whole new career. Today, Sandy has authored three books, created instructional DVDs, designs new projects and teaches rubberstamping.

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How To Work At Home As A Virtual Assistant

From Suits To Sweats: How To Work At Home As A Virtual Assistant

There are many things to do if you want to work at home. If you have ever considered working from home but aren’t sure where to start, this book called From Suits To Sweats: How To Work At Home As A Virtual Assistant details every step of the process.This book includes everything from picking a name and deciding on a niche area of specialization, to what equipment/software you will need. Other chapters include:

  • deciding on a business structure,
  • creating your website,
  • budgeting, and
  • deciding on pricing.
An entire section is devoted to explaining freelance sites, and walking you through the process of:
  • signing up,
  • creating a profile and portfolio,
  • bidding on projects,
  • landing a client,
  • completing the project, and
  • collecting your payment.

Whether you are wanting to work part-time from home to supplement your income or launch a full-time home-based business, this book will walk you through each step of creating and growing your business.

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Crafters’ Internet Handbook

Crafters' Internet Handbook (Miscellaneous)


This Crafters’ Internet Handbook is a specialized handbook which is a great boon to Internet users. By utilizing the Internet, you can fully work at home on your craft business. It teaches you how to research, connect and sell your crafts online. If you know where and how to look, you can find great deals for your craft supplies online. You can sell your crafts or market your craft business online with little or no money at all. There are many ways to market your business online for free. This book also teaches you how to attract visitors to your website and how to convert visitors into customers.

In typical computer manual format, this book guides crafters, whether they’re beginners or experienced Internet users, through the complexities of e-mail, web browsers, researching online, buying and selling, etc. I find that this book is more for people who have not done any business online. If you have not already been marketing your business online and doing search engine optimization to your craft business website, then this is a great guide for you. If you are actively marketing your business online already, then you might want to move to a more advanced book on online marketing.

There are many sample screens of craft-related U.S. and Canadian web sites along with tips and cautions for users. Although much of the information can be found in other sources, this gathering of craft-related topics by Canadian crafter Crabe makes the Internet seem like familiar territory for crafters who must spend much of their time away from the computer. Recommended for general crafts or computer collections.

Review

“Makes the Internet seem like familiar territory for crafters who must spend much of their time away from the computer.” — Library Journal

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Selling Junk Jewelry

A lot of people love jewelry but it can be difficult to start a home based jewelry business, working from home and selling jewelry. First of all, the cost of starting a jewelry business can be quite high depending on your business model. Even if you decide to go the MLM route, the cost of starting up your own jewelry business can balloon and before you know it, you have spent a lot of money already.

If you like designing jewelry and you love to recycle, then one new, hot industry is to make jewelry out of junk around your house. It is a challenge to design beautiful jewelry out of junk but, if you are good, then there is a growing market for your junk jewelry. Bear in mind that junk jewelry is very different from junky jewelry. You can make beautiful jewelry out of ‘junk’ and people will love it.

While it may take longer for older generations to accept the idea of wearing junk jewelry, much of the younger generations already find junk jewelry cool to wear. A lot of junk jewelry are clunky which is great for men as well as women.

What is junk jewelry?

Junk jewelry is usually jewelry designed and created from ordinary objects such as:

  • dice
  • kitchenware (fork, spoon, etc)
  • buttons
  • paperclips
  • whistles
  • foils
  • candies
  • domino pieces
  • broken chains
  • pencils
  • keys
  • clips
  • medals
  • belts
  • shoe strings
  • electric cords
  • motherboards
  • keyboards
  • circuit boards
  • safety pins
  • fabrics
  • keytags
  • champaign corks
  • flowers
  • and more

You can use pretty much anything to make junk jewelry as long as you are creative. If you have other jewelry that are broken then pieces of them can be made into junk jewelry and can be worth even more for some people. You still need the jewelry making and jewelry designing skills to make nice, pretty, and beautiful jewelry pieces. You can make necklaces, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and so on. Some materials are better than others to work with. For example, you can make so many different designs of jewelry out of buttons.

If you want to try making junk jewelry, this book has 144 pages of good ideas of what kind of jewelry you can make and even step by step instructions of how to make some junk jewelry. It also has a chapter of how to wear junk jewelry. By making jewelry out of everyday, ordinary, “junk” objects, you can significantly lower your cost of starting a jewelry business.

Junk Jewelry: 25 Extraordinary Designs to Create from Ordinary Objects

Junk Jewelry

Junk Jewelry

Premier Designs Jewelry

What is Premier Designs Jewelry?

Premier Designs is a direct sales jewelry company that was founded in 1985 by Joan and Andy Horner in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Premier Designs Jewelers market quality high fashion jewelry to small groups through Home Shows.  The have more than 700 pieces of jewelry, with an average item retailing for about $30. If you like jewelry and want to buy them at wholesale prices while having an opportunity to have a home based business, then the business opportunity offered by Premier Designs Jewelry might be something you want to look at.

If you like to wear and share your jewelry business with others, then you can make a lot of money doing it since all Premier Designs Jewelers earn 50% gross profit on jewelry sold at suggested retail prices. If you do not want to start the business but just want to try it out, you can host a home show, become a hostess and see how the business is done as well as earn some free jewelry. A Home Show with at least $100 in retail sales qualifies the Hostess to receive 30% of the retail show total in FREE jewelry of her choice. Hostesses can also qualify to purchase up to eight items at half-price! The amount of free jewelry you will receive increases with the total sales generated by your home show.

For example, a Hostess with $100 in retail sales at her Home Show would earn $30 in free jewelry and qualify to purchase four items at half-price. For a $400 Home Show, she would earn $120 in free jewelry and qualify to purchase six items at half-price. Above $500, the number of half-price items tops out at eight. There are many ways that a hostess can qualify for additional jewelry.

How to buy Premier Designs Jewelry?

Since Premier Designs is a direct sale or network marketing company, you need to find a Premier Designs consultant to buy your jewelry. You can also request the latest Premier Designs catalog from the consultant.

Their Guarantee

Within the first sixty (60) days of purchase, an item may be returned with proof of purchase at no charge for replacement due to a manufacturing defect. After sixty (60) days, an item may be returned with proof of purchase for a service fee of $5.00, plus tax. This warranty is not intended to cover normal wear and tear.

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