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How to Promote Your Quilting Business

Quilt_Business by Quilt_Business
Last updated: 08/23/2009

Promoting Your Quilting Businesss

Starting your quilting business is one thing, but how do you actually get yourself known and start getting some business? Clearly, you need a plan. You can't just start one day making lots of beautiful quilted things and just hope that people will buy them.

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Use a Portfolio to Promote Your Quilting Business

A good starting point in promoting a quilting business is to establish a portfolio. Your portfolio is a way of showing to potential customers what you can do and should include photographs of finished items that you have made. This is obviously something that you can add to over time as you build up your experience. You should include any letters from customers expressing gratitude for your work and anything else that demonstrates your skills.

Tell the World About Your Quilting Business

It is surprising how much you can promote your quilting business through word of mouth. Perhaps the best place to start is to identify who the influential people are in the quilting world in your area by joining a quilting group. Once you have established yourself in the group then you can start to let people know about your venture.

You may find that there are local quilting, textile or craft stores where you can advertise your business. There may be a small cost to this, but it could well be worthwhile.

Use Free Classifieds to Promote Your Quilting Business

One way of getting your quilting business better known is to make use of free classifieds such as USFreeAds. As these are free you have nothing to lose by advertising and if you like you can make your adverts specific to your local area.

Start a Blog to Promote Your Quilting Business

A further way of promoting your quilting business is to start a blog or a website. A blog is perhaps better as this provides an easy way to engage with your readers. There are a number of ways in which you can use your blog, but you could use it to keep people up to date with what you are doing, to showcase your work and to demonstrate your skills through providing tutorials. If you are selling via Etsy you could use an Etsy widget on your blog to showcase your work and encourage people to visit your shop.

If you also looking to run some quilting classes that you could provide a regularly updated list of your upcoming classes.

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