How to Show & Sell Your Crafts: How to Build Your Craft Business at Home, Online, and in the Marketplace

I LOVE this book!!! I LOVE IT. It was so helpful and SO amazing! I loved every word and it's so colorful and fun and full of good information and pictures and it's so awesome. I definitely recommend.

Compared with some other books of a similar ilk, this one doesn't talk down to one, treats the reader as intelligent and offers useful and original hints. Unlike so many craft oriented publications, it doesn't only feature US crafters and is written so that those of us in the UK with similar worries can relate to the suggestions. Definitely worth buying.

I was very pleased with this book and read it through the first day . I have since gone back to sections of the book to refresh my memory as the need arises . Good thought provoker for the creative crafty reader!!!

I m in love with this book. It has detailed information and great tips, while visually entertaining and fun. I would recommend this book to anyone considering a crafting business.

This was probably one of the most helpful books of this kind I have read. It really helped me rebrand myself and take a new approach to selling which has helped me sell more. I loved that the book had great pictures, interviews with successful sellers, and great tips for many aspects of selling that I never even considered!

This really was not the book for me. It has lots of pictures and includes some tutorial ideas, but the only part of the book that I can use is Chapter 3-4, which covers things like taking good photographs of your products, pricing your work, packaging your items and things you need to know for selling in person at craft fairs. They have a handy checklist for what you should bring when you are doing an in-person event. Chapter 5 does cover a little bit about marketing and social media, so I'll probably skim through it and see if there's anything that might be useful for me. A lot of the book is about things like organizing your space, making vision boards, decorating your booth, making a logo for your online store and while that is probably useful for some readers, I was really looking for something much more hands-on and practical about actually running a craft business and selling your work. The aforementioned subjects in and of themselves can be good topics, but the way it is approached is too cursory and geared toward specific kinds of craft businesses. The organization tips are basically: this is how you should make cute little boxes or spools for your ribbons and here are decorative pen holders and push pins and things like that which are somewhat irrelevant for me. I appreciate the concept of adding a unique touch to your studio or office or customizing your packaging for customers but the particular things covered weren't necessarily applicable for everyone. The style aesthetic of the featured businesses were a big element of the book and those aesthetics don't quite match what I'm doing so I feel like a good portion of the book was pretty much wasted on me. I came away disappointed because some of the information isn't really translatable to any and all craft businesses. The book also leans heavily on the photographs without enough written content to give the book some "meaty" material that you can use when planning your business or moving your business from in-person fairs to online marketplaces (or vice-versa). I wish I could be more excited about this book. I just think it's a book geared for a different person. Maybe if you're specifically looking for crafty ideas to organize your do-dads and you've got a very shabby chic type of craft business and you want to see examples of setting up your stall/workspace, then this might be useful for you. Or maybe if you just want general visual inspiration. I'd give this 2.5 stars as far as usefulness and a 3 for having lots of visual examples.

Great read for those considering an "online" shop. Practical, thorough but pleasing to read. While all issues are covered thoroughly, there's no excess verbiage. Fast shipping. Book better than described. Excellent service. 5 stars, no doubt.

I'm very happy with this book. It has gorgeous photos that are bound to fill you with inspiration, and lots of great ideas. :)

Lo compré para entretenerme, básicamente, y porque me gusta el mundo del DIY y toda esta tendencia. Básicamente es un libro "bonito". Me gusta mucho. El tema de emprender un negocio dentro del DIY / craft, tal y como está montado hoy en día, lo aborda suficiente y claramente, agradable y sin ser pesado con detalles. Bastante universal, no es que se centre en el mercado y trámites norte americanos; venta en mercadillo y on-line.

Good book!