Handmade Art & Craft

The Seasonal Business of Knitting and Handmade Fiber

October 31, 2009

The end of October is the end of the Summer tourist season for our handmade business of soapmaking. It is also the beginning of holiday madness as we and the temporary elves prepare orders to be shipped out until just a few days before Christmas. We’re not unusual. Many of us with seasonal businesses actually [...]

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Collaborative Marketing with Artistic Flair

February 15, 2009

The artwork pictured here to the left is ‘Marsha’s View,’ an original pastel painting by artist Kay Gordon of Marshall, North Carolina. In recent weeks I’ve featured collaborative marketing partnerships among those in crafts. In Collaborative Marketing for Rural Small Business I introduced the idea of increasing your power to pull visitors to out-of-the-way rural [...]

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Podcasts for Creative Small Businesses

February 8, 2009

Here’s a link for artists, writers, photographers, and all other creative folk on the back roads. Prosperous Artists – Outrageous Ideas for Creative Business is a blog with frequent podcasts for creative small businesses. Prosperous Artists is a blog designed to support you in building the career, business and creative life you desire. Dean La [...]

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Handmade Collaborative Marketing

February 5, 2009

Here’s another example of collaborative marketing, this time among a community of sellers on Etsy, a popular site for handmade art and crafts. Last week I featured two collaborative marketing efforts among potters. To provide a support system for its individual sellers, Etsy has created Teams. Etsy Teams are groups of Etsy artist members who [...]

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Collaborative Marketing for Rural Business

January 27, 2009

How can you draw more visitors to your business when you’re in a remote rural location? Increase your pulling power. Join with other similar rural businesses and promote yourselves as a group. Instead of just one rural business located ‘way out in nowhere,’ you can become a destination worthy of a planned day trip. Collaborative [...]

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The Problem Is More Than Lead Paint

January 22, 2009

Looks like rural business and handmade business owners have found a kindred spirit in Walter Olson, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute whose opinion piece at Forbes business magazine website states his case – “Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.’ Olson makes the point that the concern is not only about handmade toys, but [...]

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Heads Up for Handmade Business Owners

January 16, 2009

In July 2008 Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. This law was created in response to dangerous levels of lead and phthalate (a chemical in plastic materials) found in toys and other children’s products. This law is scheduled to go into effect February 10, 2009. This new law poses a big problem for [...]

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