If you’re a crafty business owner that is selling goods or services, you need some way to process and track your sales transactions. These are point of sale (POS) systems and include the software you’re using to manage your sales transactions, inventory, customer relations, marketing efforts, and more, as well as the hardware you’re using to accomplish these tasks.
Local Yarn Store Day is a special event designed to bring consumers into local yarn stores. It’s taking place for the fourth time and will be held this year on April 17, 2021.
Like many businesses, Churchmouse had to shutter its bricks and mortar location during the COVID-19 pandemic. The owners have decided not to reopen and instead to shift their business online.
Now that retail areas are re-opening for business, COVID-19 necessitates that safety procedures and sanitation precautions be in place. We look at how WEBS in Northampton, Massachusetts approached the process.
Craftivate is a craft studio space in Wallingford, Connecticut where kids and adults alike can come in and have a fun craft experience with friends.
The retail environment for brick-and-mortar continues to be challenging. Two well-known fabric shops announced their closure this week, one in Colorado and one in New Hampshire.
Brick-and-mortar retailers are a cornerstone of the craft industry, but the retail environment is going through drastic changes right now. In this panel discussion, three brick-and-mortar craft shop owners will give us an honest picture of the challenges and opportunities they’re currently facing, and how designers and suppliers fit into the retail picture.
On today’s episode of the Craft Industry Alliance podcast we’re talking about owning a quilt shop with my guest, Heather Givans. We recorded this episode in Savannah, Georgia, at Quilt Con 2017. The show was so inspiring and I was excited to have the opportunity to sit down with an equally inspiring guest to talk […]
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.
When Janet Lutz’s quilt shop was turned down for a local shop hop she invented her own. Today, over 3,000 quilt shops participate in Row By Row Experience, an inclusive and cooperative shop hop model that’s become a business all its own.