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Business Entrepreneurship Crafting

Your Craft Business: A Step by Step Guide

How to start and run a business selling hand made products you love to make.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (161 ratings)
937 students
Created by Kevin Partner
Last updated 8/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will be able to start your own craft business selling handmade products
  • You will know how to make a plan to launch and run their own business
  • You'll be able to price their products effectively and for maximum profit
  • You will have chosen the right craft for you
  • You will have decided which form your company should take
  • You'll know how to register with the tax authorities and regulators
  • You'll be able to market your business on platforms such as Amazon, Etsy, eBay and Folksy
  • You'll know which technology to buy to support your business

Requirements

  • A desire to build a profitable business selling hand made products
  • Very basic computing skills required and access to the internet

Description

Your Craft Business: Step by Step is a unique online training course that will take you by the hand and show you how to plan, create and run a successful craft business selling products you love to make. And to do it quickly.

In the course, I will show you how to design and develop products that customers will  want to buy, how to do it so each sale is profitable and how to find and sell to customers. I will also show you how to deal with the government and regulators, how to market yourself and lots more.

The course is structured as a step by step guide to the complete process of setting up a home based craft business. Go through the course once to familiarise yourself and then go back and complete the practical milestones in each step. Once completed, you'll have a working business!

Who this course is for:

  • This course is suitable for anyone interested in starting their own craft business. No previous knowledge of business is needed nor is the course aimed at any particular craft. The course is best suited to people willing to invest the time to implement the strategies outlined in it and get on and start their new business.

Featured review

Patricia Guy
Patricia Guy
11 courses
2 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Great course! I found it very informative as to basics of starting a small business. I am definitely glad I purchased this. Thank you for taking time to help others alone this new path, new journey of starting a craft business.

Course content

10 sections • 27 lectures • 3h 18m total length

  • Preview08:45
  • Preview11:10

  • The Learning Business
    03:49
  • Prototyping your Product
    05:37
  • Preview07:05
  • What are you going to sell?
    06:10

  • The Cost Price
    07:57
  • Three Techniques for working out your Pricing
    09:30

  • Design and packaging
    10:51
  • Materials and Ingredients
    06:27

  • Your home office
    12:19
  • Registering your business
    14:14

  • Dealing with regulations
    03:04
  • Getting supplied and delivering on your promises
    05:27
  • Taking Payments
    04:15

  • Getting ready to sell online
    10:05
  • Introduction to eBay, Amazon and Etsy
    03:55
  • Preview13:31

  • What sort of website do you need?
    02:09
  • Hosted ecommerce
    02:00
  • Your Business Website
    08:00

  • Marketing a craft business
    13:01
  • Email Marketing
    04:09
  • Finding new customers online
    05:36
  • Social Media
    05:37
  • Old Fashioned Marketing
    04:14

  • 7 Tips to Success
    09:57

Instructor

Kevin Partner
Professional Candle Maker, Writer and Instructional Designer
Kevin Partner
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 458 Reviews
  • 2,292 Students
  • 2 Courses

Founder and Chief Geek at MakingYourOwnCandles-co-uk which has the UK's widest range of candle making kits and equipment. A candlemaker since 2009, I have designed and developed dozens of candle styles and turned them into easy to use kits that have been enjoyed by tens of thousands of people in the UK and elsewhere.

I am also a published writer - contributing to national magazines in the UK on a regular basis since 1995 as well as authoring a number of books published traditionally and also self published. I write mainly about business and technical subjects. I am the author of the best selling Your Craft Business: A Step by Step Guide which has gone on to sell many thousands of copies to aspiring crafters.

I'm a professional programmer who, over the years has learned and used over a dozen languages for commercial purposes. My current expertise is in PHP, Python, ActionScript and Ruby.

In my leisure time I like to play video games with my son, write fiction and cook.

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