Crowdfunding through online platforms can look like a great way to insulate yourself from market pressures while pursuing a vision, but successful campaigns rely first of all on building what you’ve already started and treating sponsors as business partners.
If you’re planning a membership site, you’ll have many considerations such as content, cost, and community. Use this guide to find what is available.
Join award-winning quilter Rebecca Bryan and Alissa Norton, a former video producer for Craftsy, for a webinar about the nuts and bolts of producing a top-notch online video class.
For the first time since it’s founding in 2005 Etsy has launched a second marketplace. Called Etsy Studio, the new platform focuses exclusively on craft supplies integrating DIY tutorials to help consumers find what they need to get creative.
Acquiring a sale costs money. Even if you’re pounding the pavement with “free” marketing, you’re spending your precious time that even money can’t buy back. Learn to use Facebook ads the RIGHT way once and for all in this webinar.
Are you ready to reach a larger audience and generate a reliable source of revenue? Selling your work wholesale can grow your business in a huge way! Learn how in this webinar.
Shannon Okey created a Patreon project that could solve immediate problems and hopefully problems for myself and other knitwear designers long term.
Turn sponsor inquiries into new partnerships with our customizable media kit template. Have it ready to go the next time you need it!
Print on demand fabric company, Spoonflower, has set up shops on three online marketplaces as a way to expand its reach to new audiences. Spoonflower fabrics are now available on Etsy, Amazon, and eBay.
Fall of 2016 I closed our very successful quilt store, SPOOL. I was cutting short a business that was doing very well. Here’s why it was a good choice.
Looking to teach your passion nationwide? You can do it! You’ll need to build your reputation and establish yourself as a qualified and capable instructor.
Whether you have an ecommerce or a brick-and-mortar store, here are some Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions to kick off the holiday shopping season.
As a blogger, publishing a gift guide helps your readers get their holiday shopping done and feel good about what they’re buying.
Earning a living as a craft industry professional requires creativity and diversification. Monetizing utilizes the power of your community as an income.
Craft Industry Alliance chats with Vanessa Vargas Wilson, Crafty Gemini YouTube star and creative entrepreneur, about innovative business diversification.
Craft affiliate program managers are looking for bloggers with passion and genuine connection with their product to share with their audience.
>Fancy Tiger Crafts started as a 900-square-foot retail shop in 2006. Over the years the store has expanded and other areas of the business have grown, too. Diversification seems to come naturally to Fancy Tiger: Since the beginning, they have specialized in a variety of crafts including knitting, crocheting, sewing, quilting, embroidering, felting, and spinning.
While sponsored content marketing opportunities require more time and work, it allows bloggers to build their brand, establish a voice and to be creative.