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Preparing for an Art or Craft Festival

Art and craft festivals are a lot of work but worth it for the exposure you get and the great people you meet. Here is a guide to preparing for a show and having a great time. Oh yeah, and did I mention selling your creations?

How to Start Selling on eCrater

eCrater.com is a free webstore service that is easy to set up and charges no fees for standard services. ECrater is easy to learn and is a perfect solution for anyone brand new to selling online but is also robust and efficient for experienced online...

Using Squidoo to Promote Your Handmade Business

Squidoo is a great, easy way for anyone selling handmade items to promote their creations. Display your knitting, painting, sculpting, jewelry making, etc. and generate more visits (and hopefully sales) on your website or webstore.

Make your Handmade Products Stand Out! Using Creative Packaging

There are some easy and creative ways to make your handmade products different from the rest at festivals or shows and make a special surprise for customers ordering your products. This lens is all about using creative packaging to make your creation...

Running a Handmade Business

So you're an artist, designer, or craftsperson and want to take your first steps into making money from your talent and skills? This lens is full of advice for anyone starting a handmade business.

How To Make Your Own Business Cards

This lens is all about doing it yourself with business cards. Designing them and printing them, coming up with a card that is uniquely you. Even in this digital age the business card is still important. They can be left just about anywhere, tucked i...

Taking Successful Photos of your Artwork for your Website Gallery

If you're an artist you need to present your artwork to it's best effect on your website. You can hire a professional photographer to photograph your work and you'll get beautiful results but it's expensive. Taking your own photographs that look grea...

Etsy Sellers: What is your favorite way to promote your shop?

If you could give one tip to other Etsy sellers on how to promote their new shop what would it be? Here's your chance to share that tip here and with the Twitterverse.

Tools for Etsy Sellers

Etsy is the biggest online marketplace devoted to selling handmade products. Here is a collection of tips and tools for Etsy sellers to help their productivity and success.

Promoting your Shop with eCrater Widgets

Widgets are a fairly new feature from eCrater for promoting your products. Give them a try and get more exposure for your shop.

Using Twitter to Promote your Handmade Products

Twitter is a platform for sending short messages (140 characters) out to people who 'follow' you. You can use Twitter to build relationships with other people who share your interests and promote your handmade business. This lens is all about how to...

Selling Handmade Jewelry Online

The internet gives jewelry artisans so many new opportunities to sell their work and reach a far larger number of people. This lens gives an overview of things to consider before selling your jewelry online.

How to Use the eCrater Shipping Matrix and other Shipping Options

One of the most frequent questions asked about using eCrater is how to set up shipping. This lens explains the different options and how to use them.

Using eCrater RSS Feeds

Every eCrater store have multiple rss feeds available. Learn how to use these RSS feeds to promote your store items on other websites such as Squidoo, Zimbio, and blogs.

Spring Jubilee Arts & Crafts Festival - Pendleton SC

Just as the dogwoods begin to show their buds, the small historic town of Pendleton, South Carolina begins to get busy preparing for Spring Jubilee. It is as if the town has awakened from a long winter's nap. The Village Green is manicured and ferti...

Selling Art Is a Business

Those of us who sell art know that it is a lot hard work to do so. As a matter of fact, it is just like a business. Not too surprising, because that is exactly what it is. Artists who succeed become proficient entrepreneurs. See what it takes to beco...

Branding Your Handmade Products

Learn about building a brand as an indie artist or designer. Branding helps create an image for you and your business. It helps generate repeat business and word of mouth which is so important for small business.

Doing Art Shows--Yes or No?

This lens is a discussion about art shows both from the customer's side and the artist's side. Why are some successful and others not? Are they a good idea for artists? Why do some artists do well while other artists do not? Please add to the discu...

Art Jewelry - How to Thrive in a Competitive Market

Jewelry is a tough, competitive business. And art jewelry is more so. How do you compete with so many other artists selling jewelry? How do you make your mark and attract loyal clientele? This lens is a guide to help you sell your jewelry, and resou...

Artists--Rejection is Part of the Process to Success

Rejection happens every day to people in business. The ones who become successful learn that rejection is just part of the process towards success. What do you when you are rejected? Why do you get rejected? What is the next step?

Being a new internet small business owner

B"H I'm still on that journey and I'd like to chronicle my experiences so far. If you are a success, please leave me your advice. I'm all ears so to speak.

Work At Home Moms Share Their Success Tips

On my website DotComMothers, I publish interviews with moms who run successful businesses. At the end of the interview, I ask all these moms to tell me their five success tips. On this lens I will be sharing the five success tips shared by my intervi...

Wholesaling My Artwork

I am taking a serious business step this year, selling my jewelry wholesale. It is a serious step because I need to make enough profit at the wholesale price, and I need to be able to provide items in quantity. I had to do a lot of research and trial...

Keeping Motivated Even On The Worst Days

How do you keep motivated even on the worst days? Because you all know that we will have those days. This is the biggest challenge when working for yourself because often you do work without seeing results for a while. And the immediate can get you...

New Artists - How Do You Establish Yourself Without A Fortune?

There are lots of free or inexpensive ways to spread the word about your work. Word of mouth is still the best way to spread the word about your art. This lens discusses the ways that you can make that work for you.

Selling Your Art at Out of State Art Shows

When are you ready to go on the road and sell your work at art shows out of your area. Doing art shows out of state is a big step for artists. There are a lot of added costs involved, including travel expenses. There are many things to consider befo...

Creative Ways To Use Business Cards

Creative Ways To Use Business Cards Attach a business card to an ad specialty: For example, give business card holders as a thank you gift and place your business card in as the first one. If you routinely give out seasonal gifts or specialties, at...

Wholesale Sales Rep Gives Tips on Selling to Gift Shops

After working as a independent gift sales representative for over eight years, selling wholesale gift products to retail store buyers, I find so many crafters and producers with great gift products who need help getting their items ready for the mark...

All About the Handmade Business Blog

The Handmade Business Blog is a collection of posts about selling handmade products online. Site reviews, tips, advice, and tools for use with Etsy and other selling venues.