How to Start Making Money With Your Crafts

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Summary: Going from hobby to professional crafter? GET THIS BOOK!
Review: "How to Start Making Money with your Crafts" is a great book for those crafters (like myself) who love to craft, and have decided to take their crafts into the "new world" of business, but have no idea how to go about doing that! The author takes the reader through a step-by-step approach from deciding on a product line to pricing and selling your products for profit. When I started reading this book, I only knew that I wanted to open a crafts business and work with fabric...when I finished the book, I had nailed down a product line, made decisions about pricing, and had decided how to sell the products! The book is full of helpful worksheets and questions at the end of each chapter to help you make important desisions about your business. It takes many considerations into account: time, family/ children, money, your abilities, etc. to help you succeed at your business. There are also many stories about other succesful crafters, their ideas, and hints to help you. The "selling" part of this book focuses on selling at craft fairs. Other selling options are discussed, but not explored, but even if you do not plan to sell at craft fairs, you will benefit from the wealth of information given in this book!

Rating:
Summary: Going from hobby to professional crafter? GET THIS BOOK!
Review: "How to Start Making Money with your Crafts" is a great book for those crafters (like myself) who love to craft, and have decided to take their crafts into the "new world" of business, but have no idea how to go about doing that! The author takes the reader through a step-by-step approach from deciding on a product line to pricing and selling your products for profit. When I started reading this book, I only knew that I wanted to open a crafts business and work with fabric...when I finished the book, I had nailed down a product line, made decisions about pricing, and had decided how to sell the products! The book is full of helpful worksheets and questions at the end of each chapter to help you make important desisions about your business. It takes many considerations into account: time, family/ children, money, your abilities, etc. to help you succeed at your business. There are also many stories about other succesful crafters, their ideas, and hints to help you. The "selling" part of this book focuses on selling at craft fairs. Other selling options are discussed, but not explored, but even if you do not plan to sell at craft fairs, you will benefit from the wealth of information given in this book!

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Summary: Lots of Good Information..
Review: This book is full of sound advice for starting a craft business and will be a welcome help to anyone interested in doing that.

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Summary: A smart investment for beginners.
Review: This is a simple and diresct book that is very good for the beginner, like me. I like the way it details out how to figure pricing.