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Turn Your Creative Hobby Into Income

June 1, 2013 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

You love crafting – we all do – but have you ever thought about selling your handmade goods for a little pocket money? At the very least, you could clear out some clutter and make a little extra cash to spend on more craft supplies!

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Don’t worry if this sounds like something you’d love to do but have no idea how to get started. We here at FaveCrafts have spent a lot of time writing, researching, and collecting tips from people who love to sell their handmade crafts and put it all in one easy place.

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Creative Income Blog is where we post brand new articles weekly for creative business owners and hobbyists. You’ll find tips on selling at craft fairs, selling online, how to price your crafts to you don’t end up loosing money, and even tips on photographing your products and how to start your own blog!

We also have a weekly email newsletter that will show up straight in your inbox with craft business tips and tricks so that you can start making that pocket money to support your craft supply habit (it’s okay, we suffer from that addiction too).

Sign up for Creative Income fromFaveCrafts to start learning how to turn your hobby into income!

Have you ever tried selling the crafts you’ve made?

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Filed Under: Advice, Tips, & Tricks Tagged With: Craft Fair, selling your crafts

Keep it Together! 4 Business Card Holders to Make

May 28, 2013 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

When you’re at a craft show or networking with other craft people, you’ll want to exchange business cards and keep in touch with them in the future. Who knows where those relationships can lead? Maybe one day you’ll be designing our own craft line because of one little business card! Well, over at Creative Income blog we’re all about networking and we’ve realized that there’s no better way to keep your contacts organized and show off your skills than with a handmade business card holder!

These three are great examples of handmade business card holders that help to show of your creativity and your talents without even having to show anyone what you make! How cool is that? You can whip out your business card holder and let it do the speaking for you.

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I love the colors in this pretty sewn business card holder. It has two pockets and lots of room so you can hold your cards and the card of all your new connections! Check out the free sewing tutorial to see how to make it and whip one up before your next craft fair.

 

 

 

 

 

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This little pouch is for all you knitters out there! If you sell knit items or even yarn this is the perfect way to showcase it.

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This little vintage inspired pouch is classy and perfect for a large stack of business cards! If you love this business card holder as much as I do, be sure to pick up the free tutorial. 

 

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Don’t worry crochet fanatics, we didn’t forget about you. The pattern in this business card holder is so pretty and it give you the chance to use your two favorite colors. Or you could really show off your commitment to crochet and make each row a different color. 

 

 

 

So there you have it! Easy and adorable ways to keep your contacts in order the next time you’re at a craft show, networking event, or making friends in town.

If you want more tips like these and articles on how to build and grow your very own craft business, be sure to subscribe to the free, weekly Creative Income newsletter!

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: free crochet patterns, knitting patterns, sewing patterns

Get Crafty Business News Right in Your Inbox!

May 8, 2012 by CreativeIncome 1 Comment

Do you have your crafty business? Have you thought about turning your hobby into something that make you some pocket money or even more? Then you need to check out Creative Income Blog! The site came from a section on FaveCrafts called Craft Business and even has it’s own free email newsletter! That’s right, you can get all the crafty business news and tips that you need to start or grow your own business sent right to your inbox, for free!

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You can catch great articles on blogging, craft fairs, pricing your work, using social media to your advantage, sales tips, and much, much more! With new articles added to the blog almost daily, it can be difficult to keep up. Let us make life easier for you by sending you a weekly newsletter with all the best articles on these themes.

If you haven’t stopped by the blog yet, check it out! You’ll see that it’s a great resource for the business minded! We only collect and have articles written by people that have worked or are currently working in the industry and they know their stuff!

This week’s issue went out this morning, but sign up today for next week’s issue and don’t miss another beat!

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Crafty Business Chat Today at 3pm EST!

March 21, 2012 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

 

Hey all! Just a reminder that our Twitter Party will be happening this afternoon at 3pm EST! If you missed the details from last week, keep reading to find out how you can join in.

We’ll be talking about crafty business with our favorite craft business celebrities as well as our friends over at the Creative Income Blog!  We’ve invited craft companies, bloggers, and designers to join in and help us answer all your craft business questions. You’ll be able to benefit from the knowledge of Craft Test Dummies, The Crafty Chica, and Mark Montano! So if you’ve been thinking about turning your hobby into a business, this is one Twitter Party you won’t want to miss!

Never joined a Twitter party? It’s really simple. We’ve even created a help article on How to Join a Twitter Party to make it a breeze!

Giveaways!

As a special bonus for our lucky readers, we’ll have special prizes for participating tweeters! All you have to do to be entered is follow along and chat with us! Just send out at least one tweet during the chat with the hashtag #craftychat and you’re automatically entered to win -easy right? You can start entering right now by using #craftychat! Contest ends March 21st 4pm EST. Winners will be announced at the end of the chat.


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Crafty Business Twitter Party!

March 15, 2012 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

In honor of National Craft Month we are hosting a twitter party on March 21st at 3p.m. EST! We would love for all of you to join us on Twitter and talk with some of the busiest people in the craft industry!

We’ll be talking about crafty business so if you’ve just started building your own crafty castle or are thinking about it, this is one Twitter party you won’t want to miss. We’ve invited craft companies, bloggers, and designers to join in and help us answer all your craft business questions. You’ll be able to benefit from the knowledge of Craft Test Dummies, The Crafty Chica, and Mark Montano! We’ll be sharing industry insider tips, better ways to manage your time, and the best social media outlets for crafters just like you.

Wondering how to join in on the fun? Joining a Twitter party is really simple. We’ve created a help article on How to Join a Twitter Party for you if you’ve never done it before!

Giveaways!

As a special bonus for our lucky readers, we’ll have special prizes for participating tweeters! All you have to do to be entered is follow along and chat with us! Just send out at least one tweet during the chat with the hashtag #craftychat and you’re automatically entered to win -easy right? You can start entering right now by using #craftychat! Contest ends March 21st 4pm EST. Winners will be announced at the end of the chat.


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Introducing the Brand New Creative Income Blog!

March 7, 2012 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

We have some great news FaveCrafts fans! We’ve just started a brand new blog called Creative Income! Some of you may already be familiar with the craft business section of FaveCrafts and some of you may even already subscribe to the newsletter. Now we’re branching it out as it’s own blog to better be able to teach you about craft business!  National Craft Month was the perfect moment for us to unveil the new blog. We are super excited to be live and sharing tips for the crafty and business minded.

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Every day we’ll be right here bringing you articles to help you start or grow your very own craft business. You’ll find articles on topics such as:

  • Blogging
  • Social Media
  • Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Getting Published
  • Photography
  • Sales Tips

We’re publishing information from craft designers and bloggers who have been successful in creating their own crafting empires! We’ll also be sharing our very own hints and tips for driving traffic to your website and blog.

If you have been thinking about starting a crafty business or want to learn ways to improve your sales and traffic, this is the blog for you! We want you to stop by and leave with some information you didn’t know before.

So sign up for our newsletter, follow us on Twitter, and add us to your blog reader so that you can start creating your very own crafty kingdom!

 

FaveCrafts Blog Giveaway Contest

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Oh yea, don’t forget! We are giving away a prize a day every day here on our FaveCrafts blog for National Craft Month. It is so easy to enter. Just go to our Project of the Day post and comment to enter! You have 31 chances to win and a new special prize each day. Tune in every day to see if you are the winner!

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Help a Reader: Marketing

January 23, 2012 by CreativeIncome Leave a Comment

Every now and then, everyone could use a helping hand. Ready to lend your assistance? Below you’ll find a few readers in need. If you feel you can help or have any suggestions, please post your answer in the comments. Please try to supply instructions and/or links.

Casey asks,

“People LOVE the concept of my environmental workshops, but they’re surprised to learn there’s a fee involved in booking them! What am I doing wrong in marketing my business?”

 

Your answers could appear in an upcoming Creative Income newsletter – subscribe today!

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Help A Reader: Pricing

October 4, 2011 by CreativeIncome 5 Comments

Every now and then, everyone could use a helping hand. Ready to lend your assistance? Below you’ll find a few readers in need. If you feel you can help or have any suggestions, please post your answer in the comments. Please try to supply instructions and/or links.

Gypsy asks,

“I found the formula to use to figure out what to charge for my crafts. But I could not find what rate to figure my labor cost as. The formula is Cost of Goods + Labor X Overhead. So, if it takes me 7 hours to make something, what do I charge for labor?”

 

 

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Help A Reader: Trade Shows

September 12, 2011 by CreativeIncome 1 Comment

Every now and then, everyone could use a helping hand.  Ready to lend your assistance?   Below you’ll find a few readers in need.  If you feel you can help or have any suggestions, please post your answer in the comments. Please try to supply instructions and/or links.

 

Pat asks,
“Regarding trade shows, how do we identify and locate them and determine what would germane to our craft?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5 Steps To Starting a Free Craft Blog

September 2, 2011 by CreativeIncome 1 Comment

You love to craft and want to share your projects with the world. Why not start a craft blog? It’s super simple to start blogging about your craft with these five easy steps.

  1. Pick a service to use.
    There are many free blogging services like Blogger, WordPress, and Yola. They are all relatively simple to use and offer lots of free features like the ability to customize your blog. All of these services allow users to choose a premade layout design, so there is no need to learn code or design your own blog. Each of the services offer different features, so look at each one or ask a blogging friend what they use before you get started.
  2. Create a Banner Header.

    You will need to create a header to show off your cool new blog and you can do it yourself. You can use Picnik, Picasa or Gimp which are all free to create your new title header.
  3. Create content for your blog.
    This is the most important part of the whole blogging experience. Good content is what attracts and keeps readers. Make sure that you are writing about what you are passionate about and want to continue writing about. If your blog is a mish mosh of your life which includes craft, cooking, parenting, farming, etc. then make sure you let your readers know that either in your title or your description. Sometimes bloggers mix in parts of their life alongside their main focus which is great but if you start a blog called All About Felt and suddenly talk about nothing but milking cows, you will inevitably lose readers. So, keep to what you know and let your readers know what to expect in an About Me or Description Page.
  4. Tell people about your blog.
    There is one way to make sure people know you started a blog, tell them. Once you have a couple of posts under your belt, let the world know it. If you use any social media sites like Facebook or Twitter, post all about it. Make sure you let the world know it is your new blog and what the topic is. This increases your chances of people visiting your blog and clicking on the links you add to the social media networks. To make social media even simpler, you can set up an account in TwitterFeed that will create a tweet or facebook update every time you post to your blog. You can also add your blog address to your email signature so that your emails will also be promoting for you.
  5. Work at your blog.
    My buddy Jenny likes to say that people need to “rock their baby” when it comes to making their blogs a success and that just means they need love and attention from the blogger. In order to make a blog successful, the first step is to make consistently good content. Which means once you get started blogging, don’t stop. Keep that momentum going and write about what you know and love. Share your projects, tips, and techniques. Posts don’t have to be full tutorials every time, they can be about sharing your inspirations, favorite products, or even a cool new trick. The important part is to keep on blogging once you start.

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. It can be a wonderful way to make friends and share what you love. For more ideas for help with your crafty business, subscribe to the Creative Income Newsletter, which is chock full of ideas for bloggers, designers, and all kinds of crafters. If you are considering starting a craft business, Creative Income and our great articles about the business of craft is a great place to start.


Already have a crafty blog? Share your tips and tricks with our readers as well as your link in the comments!

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