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Category: Arts & Crafts Selling Tips

Selling Tips is sort of a mixed bag of posts about selling crafts online, selling crafts in person and general ideas about marketing and selling hand-made items. Many of the posts stem from things I see artists and crafters doing successfully and things that I think they are doing wrong or at least somewhat ineffectively.

My hope is to encourage people selling their handmade items to never forget that they are not competing with the Walmarts of the world. People do not buy handmade items because they are looking for bargains – they are looking for special things that aren’t being sold by the container ship-full. They value the time and skill it took to create the item and value the fact that hands rather than machines made it.

Underselling, under-pricing and other things crafters do to shoot themselves in the foot will be discussed as well as ideas on marketing their items in a world of Dollar Stores, Chinese imports and other lesser-quality items. More-so than any other part of Blog About Crafts, this section is one where I hope creative folks will come by and share their experiences to encourage others. It’s fine and good for me to say, “Don’t do this” or “Don’t do that” but it’s far more powerful to learn about someone who subscribes to an idea and has found it works.

Overwhelming Success

Posted on April 4, 2012April 4, 2012 by Michele

How would you handle success if something you make suddenly became the hottest things since Beanie Babies? Would you make the right choices? There’s one Etsian facing this dilemma and it looks like she is doing everything right. She has upped production, avoided over-selling and perhaps created an even bigger demand for her clever earrings.

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Back in 2006, when this site was launched, there was a gal who loved to help other artists and crafters build their business. She had several websites, including this one, dedicated to that endeavor. She helped them fly, while she only dabbled. Finally, she has joined them in pursuing her own artistic endeavors which can be found at Michele Tway Mixed Media & Fiber Art.

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