Brainstorm On Selling My Crafts:

[jennythe_reader]

In a sort of neat outline I attempt to figure out how to profit from my recent craftiness. Pictures of my recent creations are forthcoming, probably this weekend.

Here are two major questions and some of my answers:

1) What should I make?
A) I could do custom work, allowing my clients to choose colors, item to be decoupaged, amount of re-

Comments

[sioneva]

A friend of mine has quite a small Etsy shop, so quantity may not be as important as quality there. What is an issue, as with any website/shop, is getting your name out there and publicizing what you have!

[jennythe_reader]

Thanks. Spreading the word will be the hard part, no matter what method I choose.

[jennythe_reader]

Your reasoning runs parallel to my own. :-) At this point I am leaning pretty strongly toward an Etsy shop, either solo or with a group. I just wanted to come up with other options so that I knew I had really thought about it.

Thank you for the compliment.

Product and Placement

[anonymous]

With any business the easiest thing is to get the product the most difficult part is convincing people to buy your product. With that in mind. Everything is so connected now that if you have a quality product there is somebody somewhere that will buy it. The problem is finding that person at the right time

Re: Product and Placement

[jennythe_reader]

What I came up with last night (after posting this) was to make and sell whatever I come up with myself, but have an offer to do custom work somewhere on whatever site I end up using to sell.

That anonamous comment was your brother Bobby

[anonymous]

seriously give it a shot. Put time into it. Start slow. Baby steps. All good things come with time.