Want to work from home? Looking for an alternative source of income in uncertain times?
How about turning your craft hobby into a business? Read Patrice Lewis's book The Home Craft Business: How to Make it Survive and Thrive and find out if you have what it takes to become a craft entrepreneur.
Patrice Lewis draws on sixteen years' worth of experience in running a home craft business with her husband. Patrice's name is familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers through The Crafts Report Magazine and Countryside Magazine on the subject of home craft businesses, and now she's collected all her experience into one convenient e-book.
The Home Craft Business is packed with suggestions ranging from tax tips to sales techniques, from wholesaling to custom work. Broken down into easy "lessons," The Home Craft Business will guide you through the confusion of expanding a hobby into a business with the potential for some serious income.
- When should you quit your day job? See page 80.
- Curious how to sell effectively without sounding like a used car salesman? See page 145.
- Should you consign your craft products? See page 126.
- What is the best way to have a craft business in a bad economy? See page 156.
- What do you do when nobody wants your product? See page 50.
According to Patrice, those peppy commercials (Be Your Own Boss! Work at Home! Set Your Own Hours! Spend More Time with your Family!) can come true if you're willing to learn the business as well as the creative side of things.
The Home Craft Business is a powerful resource for enthusiastic crafters who need to distinguish between what has the potential to become a certifiable business, and what should remain a hobby. It has twenty-three lessons packed into 165 pages of advice, examples, and tips on keeping your head above water as you carefully and safely build your home business.
Yes you can be your own boss. Yes you can set your own hours and spend more time with your family. Yes you can make a profit with your own creativity. This book tells you how.
