Crafts Business Success
Measuring your crafts business success... is another great use for that marketing plan you have made!
If you created a marketing plan or business plan.. measure the results?.. Did your answers to your marketing questions help create your crafts business success?.. Which idea worked the best?.. If you came up with 10 ways to market your crafts business, and one worked extremely well, and some .. not so well..then its time to create another plan!
Was selling on the internet the highest sales for you?.. were craft shows.. not so good?..etc.. Now, you need to create a more detailed plan on how you are going to spend more time marketing your crafts on the internet.. and come up with how, when, and what cost?..
Then you visit this again, down the road, and improve upon it.. You need to be calm, clear thinking, and not stress and frazzled the day you sit down and come up with your plan.. this is the calm, before you embark on your busy business!.. take the time to create this plan and then you can measure the results, rather than spinning your wheels with no direction.. you will be amazed at what your imagination can come up with, when making a plan, and some of the ideas you will have.. keep a copy of it all in a binder that you can easily pull out and look over when you feel you are getting off track.. let your imagination roll..
Make Craft Time
Watch the Craft Cash at Shows
get some good accounting software
have a good business card
Earn money from your website
watch out for the craft show cheapskate!
The High Society cheapskate!
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