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New Craft Business Ideas
You may already have a plan for the types of crafts you will want to market. You may need to sit down and brainstorm for a while before something hits you. More...
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Advertising Your Craft Business
Advertising that you have a new craft business is work. Here are some approaches to advertising your craft business for a successful venture.
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Selling Crafts – Business for Stay-at-Home Moms
Selling crafts can be a great business for stay-at-home moms looking to earn money working from home. Start a craft business and turn a hobby into a money-making venture.
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Arts and Craft Shows
Craft shows are the lifeline of a crafts business. Everyone associates crafts with craft shows. Learn the ins and outs of how to set up your booth.
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How to Start a Craft Business
Usually people start out making crafts as a hobby. Here are some things to consider when you want to take the next step and start your own business.
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Craft Business Plan
Starting a new craft business means making sure you do things legally. It also requires you to keep good records of your business. Learn some tips here.
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SURFING for SHOWS for SELLING-SEASON
Find craft shows for the holiday selling-season. You must book early to be included in many shows. Go to the listed Web sites that give listings by city, state, region and nation.
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THE FINANCIAL SIDE - Part I
Many small businesses fail because of the lack of funding. It is true, "You must have money to make money." Many fail for lack of financial expertise and planning. Of course, you are in business to make money, but do you have the money to make money? Do you have a plan to make that money work?
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Building a Loyal Customer Base
The more existing customers buy, the less you have to spend on finding new customers. This article shows you how to develop more loyalty.
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Business Analysis
Managing a successful small business involves measuring and analysing performance. This article shows small businesses what to measure.
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Choosing a Business Network
Business breakfast clubs and other networking organisations can be excellent for generating new business, if you find the right one. This guide tells you the main types.
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Choosing Creative Concepts
If you need to decide which of your Graphic Designer's ideas to choose, use this guide to help you.
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Database Content and Management
Databases are invaluable but can be a hindrance without correct and up-to-date information. This guide shows you to choose the content and manage it.
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Databases for Small Businesses
Databases help small businesses be more organised and sell more. This article provides a general introduction to some of the things which have to be considered.
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Email Campaign Best Practices
Successful email campaigns have requirements needed to stay legal and deliver customer service. This guide tells you what you need to consider.
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Essential Marketing Materials
Spending money on the wrong business stationery and materials can be a costly mistake for any business, large or small. Here's how to make sure you get it right.
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Existing Customer Management
Do you spend effort trying to attract new customers whilst ignoring your existing customer base? Try generating greater loyalty to achieve more sales.
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Finding out Who your Customers Are
Small businesses and start-ups often try to target everyone. However, they can get better results by only targeting those most likely to purchase. Here's how to do it.
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Generate More Business by Testing
For a boost to company sales, use testing to identify the changes which will make the biggest improvements to your sales levels and profitability.
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How to Conduct Market Research
Research is a vital skill for small businesses. This article provides an introduction to the subject and shows you how do it quickly, easily and at low cost.
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In-depth Customer Research
In-depth research is a great way to speak to your customers to find out exactly what they want. This article shows you how to do it.
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Making Email More Effective
Email is a quick and efficient way to communicate with customers and prospects. This guide tells you how to make email campaigns more effective and increase results.
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Market Research Surveys
Surveys are a quick and easy way to obtain information on what customers think of you and your company. This article shows you how to get started with them.
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Marketing your Hobby
Do people often look at your work and think 'that's good - you could sell it'? If so, this article will show you how to market and promote yourself.
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Measuring Advertising Results
Many small businesses spend money on advertising without knowing whether it's effective or not. Here's one way of measuring results.
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Researching Competitors
Small businesses often find it very difficult to obtain good analysis and research on their competitors. This article provides guidance on how to do it.
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Sending Large Volumes of Email
This guide provides you with the options for sending email in bulk to customers and prospects.
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Using a Database Effectively
Databases help small businesses profile customers, store details and sell more. This article provides the guidance needed to make it effective.
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Using Networking for your Business
Businesses have achieved varying degrees of success from networking. This article explains the types of business most likely to benefit from it.
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Using Publicly Available Research
Conducting your own research can be expensive so it makes sense to see what else is available first. This article shows you how to get vital information.
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What's Your Unique Selling Point?
A Unique Selling Point (or USP) is something that makes your business stand out from competitors. This article helps you identify yours.
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Working with Graphic Designers
Graphic Designers and Agencies produce better work if they are given a quality briefing - here are the key things to take into account when commissioning creative work.
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Beware of "Opportunities" That are Really Scams
Tips for avoiding work-at-home scams and ripoffs
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Can Advertising be Measured?
Measuring advertising can be difficult. However, with the application of a few simple principles, you'll soon know exactly what can and can't be measured.
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Craft Fairs
Being prepared is essential to having a pleasant and profitable craft fair experience.
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Home based Business Idea - Jewelry Art
Crafting home based business ideas are all the rage. Here is information on how to break into this work at home venture.
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How to Sell Crafts
If you've been crafting for the love of it and need to ramp up your efforts to bring in a little extra cash, there are resources out there to help you sell your crafts.
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Making Green Stuff with Your Rubber Stamp Stuff!
Making money with your stamps...to pay for more stamps!
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Measuring Awareness Advertising
Measuring brand or awareness advertising may be difficult, but it's certainly not impossible. This article shows you how to do it
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Measuring Website Performance
If you've ever wondered how visitors find your website, or how to generate more traffic, then this article tells you what to look for and what to measure.
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OVERWHELMED WITH WORK? HIRE HELP!
Hiring help - this is written to help those who want to hire one or more employees, but don't know where to start. The material is an overview meant to give an idea of what is involved and where to look for more information.
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Review: Starting Your Own Business
A review of Bert Markgraf's e-book, Starting a Small Business.
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THE FINANCIAL SIDE - Part II
Here we look at the elements necessary to the financial side of business. These will help with your planning for acquiring funding for a small business. First, you must estimate start-up costs. What will it cost to have the business up and running? Create a list of items needed to start.
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Using Customer Buying Processes
Identifying customer buying processes is a technique almost guaranteed to generate more sales - but also an area not often considered
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CONTROLLING YOUR INVENTORY , Part 2
The importance of keeping an inventory for your craft business. How when you purchase materials to create a finished item you are a manufacturer. When you sell the finished items to the public a retailer. Each function has its own method of inventory.
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HINTS ON PRICING - Part I of III
The biggest obstacle in business is pricing product. Methods and formula are given here to help you analyze the manufacturing costs of items to set fair and profitable prices.
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Home-Based Business Ideas for Moms
Home-based work is ideal for mothers who want to earn extra income without spending hours each day away from their children. Here are some ideas for home-based business.
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HOMEWORK BEFORE SETTING PRICE - Part I
Setting price for products and services requires doing homework first by analyzing cost factors.
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HOMEWORK BEFORE SETTING PRICE - Part II
Basic factors to consider as homework and research before setting prices for products and services.
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MAKING DECISIONS
Don't be afraid of making decisions because you might make a mistake. Sometimes you have more of a tendency to procrastinate when you are unsure of yourself. Every day as you do any item of work, ask yourself if you are working the easiest and smartest way.
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