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Craft Your Business

Would you like to turn your weekend crafting hobby into a side business to make extra money? Or perhaps you're interested in becoming self-employed full time with your craft business? These books and resources will get you started on making your goals a reality.

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  • This book shows you everything you need to know to get set up, get things running, and build your business as you see fit. From photography and sales writing, through SEO, homepage navigation, and more.
    Book, 2023Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2023] — 745.5068 SHOUP
  • Candle Craft

    a Complete Guide : 23 Stylish Projects & Small-business Tips

    Coats, Tiana,
    Learn to share your projects with the world with Tiana's small business tips for starting and growing your own creative venture.
    Book, 2023Lafayette, CA : Stash Books, an imprint of C&T Publishing, [2023] — 745.4933 COATS
  • Supermaker

    Crafting Business on Your Own Terms

    Schmidt, Jaime,
    Includes: the keys to establishing a financially successful business; tactical approaches to branding, PR, sales, marketing, culture development, and team management; and selling online, retail strategy, and digital marketing.
    Book, 2020San Francisco, California : Chronicle Prism, [2020] — 658.11 SCHMIDT
  • Sell Your Crafts Online

    the Handmaker's Guide to Selling on Etsy, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, eBay, Shopify, and More

    Dillehay, James,
    As an artisan featured in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, and Entrepreneur Radio, marketing pro James Dillehay’s thirty years of experience has made him a master of turning small projects into six-figure enterprises. Includes helpful…
    Book, 2020Torreon, NM : Warm Snow Publishers, [2020] — 745.5068 DILLEHA
  • Start Your Own Etsy Business

    Your Step-by-step Guide to Handmade Success

    Rich, Jason,
    This comprehensive guide will help you create listings, make a marketing plan, choose keywords and tags, decide on shipping and packaging, create logos, product listings and images, and reach more shoppers with targeted social media and ads.
    Book, 2017Irvine, California : EP Entrepreneur Press, [2017] — 745.5068 RICH
  • Crafter's Market

    How to Sell Your Crafts and Make a Living

    Features hundreds of venues for marketing and selling crafts, as well as expert advice on building your craft business. Crafts include jewelry-making, yarn crafts, sewing, quilting, paper crafting and more!
    Book, 2015–Cincinnati, Ohio : Fons & Porter, 2015- — 745.5068 CRAFTER
  • More Sewing to Sell

    Take Your Handmade Business to the Next Level : 16 New Projects to Make & Sell!

    Lindsay, Virginia Keleher, 1975-
    Follow-up to Sewing to Sell: the Beginner's Guide to Starting a Craft Business. A basic introduction to selling your hand-sewn items online and at craft shows. The author also includes patterns that readers are permitted to make and sell.
    Book, 2018Lafayette, California : Stash Books/C&T Publishing, [2018] — 746.068 LINDSAY
  • How to Make It

    25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

    Abbott, Erin Austen,
    With profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, this book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices that keep these creative entrepreneurs on track.
    Book, 2017San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2017] — 745.5 ABBOTT
  • Want to start a part-time crafting business and keep your day job? This book's for you! It even includes a chapter on "Balancing Life and Crafts".
    Book, 2012Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, [2012] — 338.4774 DOBUSH