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

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!

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 haven't read all the way through this book yet. I'm about 3/4 of the way. But I've even painted 6 glass jar lids and glued my favorite plastic sealife trinkets onto the top lids and so adorable. Very happy to have in my art studio. Makes me smile.I actually bought this book for it's crafty projects. Most of the marketing info I've read elsewhere except for Pinterest and Instagram. So it does include some more up-to-date info. But everything is in a brief format rather than digging deep knowledge. One would have to get a book just about Facebook or just about Twitter, etc. to get all the meat on these social media websites and marketing materials.

Great book for a beginner like me. It makes a nice addition to my library. No problems with the seller, item, nor shipping. Book arrived in great condition.

This book is absolutely helpful. As a craft lover, it provided me guidelines to follow if you are thinking in expanding your crafts to the next level. I can not tell you how much I highly recommend this book. It is excellent!!!!

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.

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.

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.