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5 Tips for a Positive Attitude at Shows

5 Tips for a Positive Attitude at Craft Shows

5 Tips for a Positive Attitude at Craft Shows I’m writing in the middle of Christmas craft fair season.  It is November 17th and Christmas is still a month away.  This is after the big Fall fair in Rock Creek, BC, Canada, and the small community Christmas craft fairs are starting up.  Doing so many …

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Build a Solid Foundation for your Sales

In our consumer society it is easy to imagine that sales just happen.  But is that true?  Actually most sales rely on a relationship between you (as the consumer) and the company (as the seller).  When I was growing up in Castlegar, BC, I would go to West’s Department store.  The prices were similar to …

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Cash Box 5 tips on handling your money at shows

Cash Box – 5 Tips on Handling Cash

How to play it safe with cash. Handling a cash box at a trade show, farmers’ market, or craft fair is a fairly straight forward idea. You have cash so that you can make change with people buying your products. Follow these 5 tips and keeping your cash and making change will be easy. 1. …

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Trade Show Checklist

Trade Show – Checklist I just got back from a trade show in Vancouver. I wasn’t selling my turnings nor was I in charge of the booth. I was helping out. I realized that there are so many things to bring when you are at an event, trying to sell your products, or just give …

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Sales Receipt – What to Record

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 …

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Sales Training for the Artisan

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 …

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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 …

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Why You Need 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.  …

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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 …

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Welcome to the Turning For Profit Community! I'm Robin. Turning for Profit is about helping you find hope and joy in your woodturning hobby. It's about projects that fill your inventory and inspire your creativity. It's business help to get you set up and making a profit quickly. If you've always wanted to work from home playing with wood, let me help you realize your dream of Turning for Profit. Read More…

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Learn to use 5 different wood turning tools, with confidence, while you turn 7 projects, building your wood turning skills sequentially.  Includes tips and ideas for marketing your wood turning, when you are ready to move forward.


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You don’t have to be good to start.  You just have to START to be good. — Joe Sabah

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7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe

7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe
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Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast

Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast
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Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project

Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project
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