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Microsoft Office for Artists and Craftspeople

55 Ways to Organize Your Craft Fair Business with Word and Excel

Get organized and make more money with Microsoft® Office as you learn more about computers and spreadsheets. This book/software* package includes:

An easy monthly bookkeeping system, with an up-to-date accounting of income and expenses. Estimated sales taxes and Social Security taxes are automatically calculated.

A product pricing template that will instantly calculate the best price for distribution, wholesale, and retail sale of your handmade craft product. Just enter your annual desired salary, production rate and material costs.

A complete method designed to help you organize your fair applications and show schedule. Now you won’t miss important craft deadlines. You can see your entire years’ worth of shows at a glance.

A detailed inventory tracking template that shows what you need to make, what you have in stock, how much it’s worth, and what you need to order.

A mail list manager database to keep track of your best customers and to print labels to notify them of new products or your next show in their area.

Formal and legal agreements for sales reps, independent contractors, employees, and consignment stores, designed to help keep you from getting ripped off!

Forty other forms with step-by-step instructions are included to help you organize your business—invoice, packing slip, budget, press release, vehicle expense logs, credit application, business plan, project bid, collection letters, and more!

Minimum system requirements for using the software templates included with this book for Microsoft® Office,  Word and Excel: Personal computer with a 486 DX processor or higher, Microsoft Windows 95, 16 MB RAM or more, VGA graphics, Microsoft Office 95 or higher or Word 6.0 and Excel 6.0 or higher, MS mouse.

There are 75 templates, spreadsheets, letters and forms on the  CD-ROM.  Also on the CD is 18,000 black and white clip-art images to use for logos, painting, etc.

Here is the table of contents of the book:

(The names in parenthesis are the names of the templates on the CD)

Introduction

Different Microsoft Office Configurations

How to Use the "Forms and Spreadsheets" Disk

Bookkeeping

Monthly Accounting System (accounts.xls)

Daily Cash Report (dailyrep.xls)

Show Expense Report (expenses.xls)

Vehicle Log (vehicle.xls)

Accounts Receivable (accntrec.xls)

Selling Retail at Craft Fairs and Art Shows

Craft Fair Application Organizer (organizr.xls)

Craft Fairs at a Glance (fairshow.xls)

Craft Fair Equipment List (equipmnt.xls)

Customer Mailing List (customer.xls)

Craft Fair Database (fairlist.xls)

Selling Wholesale to Craft Galleries

Craft Gallery Database (gallery.xls)

Credit Application (credappl.doc)

Consignment Agreement (consign.doc)

Another Consignment Agreement (consign2.doc)

Craft Gallery Startup Costs (startup.xls)

Sales Representative Agreement (repagree.doc)

Sales Representative Commission Report (commisn.xls)

Sales Call Record (salescal.xls)

Trade Show Expenses (tradesho.xls)

Forms <

            Invoice (invoice.xls)

            Purchase Order (purchord.xls)

            Statement (statment.xls)

            Packing List (packlist.xls)

            Price List (pricelst.xls)

            Sales Order (salesord.xls)

Planning

Business Plan (busplan.doc)

Budget (budget.xls)

Cash Flow Planner (cashflow.xls)

Daily Planner (dayplan.xls)

Production

Inventory (invntory.xls)

Employee Application (emplappl.doc)

Employee Non-Competing Agreement (emplcomp.doc)

Independent Contractor (contract.doc)

Marketing

Product Pricing (pricing.xls)

Marketing Plan (mrktplan.xls)

Press Release (pressrel.doc)

Project Bid (projbid.doc)

Mail Order Advertising Results (advertis.xls)

Desktop Publishing

Letterheads (letheads.doc)

Shipping Labels (labelrw.doc)

Resume (resume.doc)

Calendar (calendar.xls)

To-do List (todolist.xls)

Miscellaneous

Personal Financial Statement (networth.xls)

Home Office Deduction (homeuse.xls)

Business Evaluation (busvalue.xls)

Profit and Loss Statement (profitst.xls)

Balance Sheet (balance.xls)

Letters

Craft Fair Letter

Opening Accounts

Customer Service

Employee Letter

Bad Checks

Late Payments

Requests for Information

A Brief Note About QuickBooks

Other Forms on the Disk

Conclusion

Index

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The Lone Craftranger

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