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Turn your artistic craft skills
into a full- or part-time business. Everything you need to know
to sell your handmade crafts is here!
This book is the best from our other books.
It includes the following:
* A guide to selling your crafts directly to
the public at crafts fairs and art shows, selling wholesale to
galleries, and marketing on the internet.
* 200 tips for finding and getting into craft
shows and how to survive them and make money. Learn about taking
credit cards, safety on the road, making your own display and
anchoring it, selling, avoiding theft, traveling to shows by
road or air, making your own web site, and doing your own
photography for web images and show application slides.
* 900 of the best craft fairs and art shows in
the U.S.
* 1,100 top craft galleries that are seeking
new contemporary crafts to sell.
* 15 spreadsheet templates and forms on a
CD-Rom for use with Microsoft Excel and Word, including an easy
monthly bookkeeping system, a product pricing calculator, an
inventory tracking template, a mail list manager, a business
plan, invoice, marketing plan, invoice, forms to organize your
application deadlines and show schedules, and legal agreements
for consignment, sales representatives, etc.
* An 8-page FrontPage web site with order
form, ready to modify and upload.
* Contact information for everything from
canopies and display cases to trade shows, photographers, craft
fair guides, and credit card providers, including over 100 show
promoters who produce multiple shows around the country.
The author has been a professional
craftsperson for 28 years. In the past 15 years he has
participated in over 300 art shows and craft fairs in 28 states.
He currently has his crafts in 25 galleries and sells his craft
products on several web sites he designed and maintains. He has
written 5 books on craft marketing.
Minimum software requirements for using the
software templates included on the CD-ROM: Personal PC computer
with MicrosoftTM
Windows, Microsoft Office 2000 or higher or Word 6.0 and ExcelTM
6.0 or higher.
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