Introduction When I first started selling my jewelry there was only one real way start and that was at Art Fairs. Some people were starting email lists but the idea of an artist with a website was laughable. Amazingly, finding art fairs were almost all word of mouth. Artists would learn about fairs that were [...]
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Introduction Measuring the success of your online business is not as easy as it seems. In theory it should be gross amount made, which is the total amount of money you made in a year from which you subtract from your costs for that year. Then with that number you decide how much must be [...]
Introduction Currently in my life I am a part time metal smith and full time student getting my Masters in Library Science. In one of my early classes we learned about Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Libraries. The five laws of library science are: 1) Books are for use 2) Every reader his or her book [...]
On November 6th I displayed and sold my jewelry at the Bloomington Handmade Market at the Bloomington Convention center in Bloomington Indiana. It was a good day with good sales, and I met good people and had a fun time. Afterwards I was pretty worn out although it was completely worth it. The market estimated [...]
To all the wonderful people that support the handmade arts I will be selling at the Bloomington Handmade Market on Saturday November 6th! It starts at 10 am and ends at 5 pm. It will be held in the Bloomington Convention center at the corner of 3rd and College in Bloomington Indiana. This is a [...]
Pricing work is difficult and the issues around it require many steps.
The 3 phases of online shopping and how they relate to selling on Etsy
This is the second part of the series on building relationships and focuses on building relationships in at art fair setting
