Are you Feeling Lucky? Who Loves to Win Free Stuff? Tell me What YOU want to KNOW about Selling your Crafts?

As I’m putting together the speaker list for my summer “Turn Your Craft Into Cash’ tele-summit, I want to make sure we cover the topics you are most interested in. I’ve had request for more info on How to Get your work into Galleries, How to Break into the Wholesale Market, How to Open your Own brick and mortar Craft Gallery, Cause Marketing, Licensing, Sourcing, How to Get your Work into Publications, Getting Demo Gigs, Organizing Art Retreats, Getting Catalog Companies to Carry your Work, Celebrity Gift Bags,  How to Get Free PR and some other topics I hadn’t expected. I want to make sure this teleconference serves your needs so I’ve decided to hold a contest.  All you have to do is let me know what topics you would like to know more about to grow your craft business. Please either post below or drop me a note at coach@craftbizblog.com. I’ll enter your name in a drawing and the winner will receive a free audio download of the entire telesummit . We’ll cover as many of your questions as possible.  

I look forward to reading your questions. Remember to post below or email me now atcoach@craftbizblog.com. because you can’t win if you don’t play! 

Why a Recession is the Best Time to Start you Own Craft Business

Do your friends and family discourage you from starting your dream business “in this economy.”?  Is their reasoning that you’d be unwise to “leave the security of your job in a recession?”  I’d find that humorous if it weren’t so sad because,most likely, these naysayers have never been self employed and haven’t yet been victim to the mass layoffs of “valued employees”. In the present economy, the only secure job is the one YOU CREATE for yourself.

Yes, I do listen to the news. I know people are losing jobs and retailers are shutting their doors. And I also know that most of my self employed friends with small businesses are  reporting record breaking sales. Because when you’re self employed, you create your own economy. When something isn’t working , you can make changes quickly without the bureaucracy of a board of directors. On the corporate level, by the time reports are generated and changes approved, it is frequently too late. Too much has been lost. Not so in Read more