You have just sold three bowls and a wine bottle stopper. Having wrapped each item carefully you are now looking at a blank sales receipt and thinking… What information do you need to record on your sales? I found this a challenging question and I came up with a few surprising answers. 6 Pieces of …
10 Tips for Product Photography that Sells
When you list your hand turned bowls, spindles, and other work in your online store, Etsy store, Facebook, or Pinterest use these product photography tips to get the attention you deserve. So often when I’m looking through turning blogs or checking out what my fellow turners are doing on Facebook, I realize their sales are …
Sales Training for the wood turner
Craft Fair Selling I’m sure you’ve experienced this. I certainly have. You are standing in your booth at an art show and a customer walks in. The customer looks at your products but doesn’t say anything or look at anything in particular. Your throat goes a bit dry. Your palms get sweaty. What do you …
5 Reasons That Appearance Matters
Our business was fibre. We had wool hats, angora mitts, silk scarves and turned fibre tools. Handmade and artisan designed and crafted. At a craft market you wore clothes that showed off your goods. Clean jeans or dress pants, of course. How about a hand spun, hand knit, one-of-a-kind sweater? What would be better than …
Why you need to create a business page on Facebook
Often I go to Facebook to find other wood turners and can’t find them, because they have set their personal timeline as their Facebook business page. Unfortunately, fans cannot be accumulated on a personal timeline and to interact with my fellow woodturner, I need to send a friend request, or subscribe to their personal timeline. …
5 Initial Steps from Hobby to Business
Promotion of you and your work These five steps will help you move your hobby to a business, in a way that will allow you to continue enjoying your hobby and earn some money as well. Step #1 – Your Attitude It’s all about you. You are your hobby and you are your business. How …
Wholesale or not Wholesale that is the question.
At some point you will be approached to sell your work wholesale. It will usually be applied to your lower priced items, the price value will be 50% or half of retail, and the person is going to want large quantities of your work. For this post I will use my wine bottle toppers as …
The secrets of the Northern woods — pinus species
Local Trees for Wood Turning – Pine (Pinus sp.) Living in the southern interior of B.C. I am surrounded by Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)trees. With two needles in a bunch and a narrow straight tree they are easy to recognize. Pine is often overlooked for fine wood working or wood turning but it has some …
Artisan Craft: Finding a balance with mass production
Balancing the need for repeat production with artisan aesthetics Tupperware is famous for its storage utility, and its ubiquitous presence in every home. Tupperware is cheap, easy to make, convenient to use, toxic, and stack-able. A wooden bowl reflects character and charm. It is a joy to use and to look at. There is the …
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7 Mistakes that Kill Sales at the Show
Another season of Christmas Fairs is over. Did you go? Were you selling? Craft shows are a great opportunity to connect with customers. It is a thrill to see the determined stride of a familiar face that recognizes your booth and is incoming for a purchase. It is easy to do the same thing year …