The Crafts Blog

Starting a home craft business and building it from “kitchen table” beginnings to something that can provide you with a full-time income has never been easier. If you produce quality, original work it’s now possible to advertise and sell your crafts to anyone, anywhere in the world. The internet has revolutionized business and selling crafts [...]

When you’re focusing on selling your crafts online it’s easy to overlook perhaps the internet’s greatest asset - the availability of free information.
We can use this information for the benefit of our craft business. We can keep an eye on new advances that might help our blog or website, or how we market and sell [...]

This article comes from guest writer Phil Davies, President of Tungsten Brand Marketing. He has some important points to make for every young craft business - online or off.
After nearly twenty years of corporate branding experience, the same question still arises when naming a new business - “What is the most important factor when deciding [...]

Lot’s of crafts people are very good designers. With some crafts, creativity is inherent - if you make your own patterns for example, whether that’s knitting, sewing, leathercraft, woodwork, whatever.
Others are just naturally creative people - even if their craft doesn’t require any particular creativity directly.
However, there’s one area where I see that creativity fail [...]

How to sell your crafts online is a complex question and one I’m going to spend a lot of time looking into.
Another one that comes up a lot is where to sell your crafts online.
For me, the answer is one of two places: your own craft website or your own craft blog. In my opinion [...]

If you’re looking for the secret to success with selling crafts online I’m afraid you’re in for a bit of a disappointment. There are no “secrets”. There’s some stuff that maybe you don’t know yet but if you’re looking for instant riches, go buy a lottery ticket.
On the other hand, if you’re looking at what [...]

In case you haven’t already guessed I’m a big fan of craft blogs and of craft blogging as a way of developing your online craft business. If you’ve been around the internet for even a short time you’ll probably have come across places where you can set up a nice blog for free.
So why would [...]

Crafts and the internet - it’s difficult to think of two things that are more opposite. One is frequently hand-made, sometimes using techniques that haven’t altered in generations. The other is the very latest technology and seems to have changed and updated every time we turn our back!
Yet together they offer craftspeople like you and [...]

Hi. Nice to have you here.
This blog is dedicated to craftspeople who want to sell their crafts online. Unfortunately it’s an area where you’ll find a lot of mis-information. Deliberately? Yes, in some cases. Some people are trying to sell you a pig in a poke.
If you don’t know what to look out for, selling [...]