BUSINESS: How to Design Your Craft Stall
Times are hard for anyone who sells at craft fairs. People are looking, but they are buying less. As Kirsten Miller recently discussed, fairs...
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BUSINESS: Successful Crowdfunding by Chris Parry
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way for small businesses and independents to raise money to grow their business. Jeweller Chris Parry tells...
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BUSINESS: A different approach to craft fairs
Alison Young Jewellery at BCTF, Harrogate
If you've been selling at craft fairs and other events in recent months, you have probably experienced a downturn in sales at most of them. Have you...
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BUSINESS: Preparing Your Business for Christmas - Part 4
Cosy mug and teapot by Linda Bloomfield, Handmade Christmas Card by Claire Lovet
Dan Goode at Seek & Adore continues to offer his Christmas pearls of wisdom for a successful festive season...
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BUSINESS: Preparing Your Business for Christmas - Part 3
Tealight holders by Richard Shock. Photographer: Ben Yacobi
Dan Goode at Seek & Adore continues to offer his Christmas pearls of wisdom for a successful festive season... With the clocks going back at the...
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BUSINESS: Making Exhibiting at Events Pay
Once you've decided to start selling your lovely handmade items at craft fairs and events, how do you make sure you make the ...
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BUSINESS: Preparing Your Business for Christmas - Part 2
Set of 3 Pewter Decorations by Fleur Grenier
Dan Goode at Seek & Adore continues to offer his Christmas pearls of wisdom for a successful festive season. And we’re off! We have entered the...
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BUSINESS: Throwing Open the Studio Doors
Amy McCarthy Garden Gazebo Gallery
  I have just taken part in my third Devon Open Studios Event and as always I found it an enjoyable time;
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BUSINESS: Finding Your First Customer
Madeline from Meeni at a craft event with her company details on every product.
Turning your hobby into a fully fledged creative business can be a daunting task but here are a few useful tips from Rickie Josen...
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BUSINESS: Preparing Your Business for Christmas - Part 1
Desk Journal by Bookery
This is the first in a series of four articles from Dan Goode at Seek & Adore about preparing your business for a successful festive season...
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BUSINESS: A Shelf of My Own
Many designer-makers start off their small businesses online, with the aim of eventually, at some point down the road, selling their products through...
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BUSINESS: Negotiating the Balance Between Creativity and Cashing In
Most designer-makers will be well acquainted with the balancing act that is sticking to your creative guns and producing what the market demands.
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BUSINESS: Making the Leap from Hobby to Full Time Business
Today, writer, crafts events organiser and trainer, Rickie Josen, examines how to make the leap from hobby to full time business. Making the leap Hav
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BUSINESS: Sustainable Design in a Changing World
Design doesn't start and end with a few drawings, but has to take in everything that is involved in the production of a new product, whether textiles...
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BUSINESS: How to Organise a Successful Craft Fair
Craft fairs have become increasingly popular in recent years and most of them are organised by crafters themselves. With so much competition it is...
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BUSINESS: Why Buy Local?
Since the UK plunged into recession, it's perhaps more important than ever to buy from local suppliers and makers to ensure that our local businesses...
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