Crafting and craft businesses are fast becoming a very profitable way to double your household income.
While most crafters start to do crafts as a hobby and do it for the enjoyment, it can very quickly develop into a profitable business.
No matter how far your skill levels have progressed to in the particular craft that you are doing, you are already able to sell your finished pieces. Here are some pointers that you should remember to apply when you start to market your skills.
1. Never undervalue what you have produced. Crafts are very time consuming, and your time is valuable. Set your price and stick to it.
2. Due to the very uniqueness of your product, the more details that you add on to the finished product presentation wise the better your sales will be.
3. Set up a permanent “showroom” in your home where the items are all shown to the very best of your ability. Preferably behind glass cabinets, and perhaps even locked. If you create an impression of value in the storage of the stock and you do small things like washing your hands before you touch the stock, you will create a great impression.
4. Put multiple sales systems in place to market your products. You need to find, pinpoint and setup as many different methods that you can find to promote the sales of your goods.
5. Each of these ways must be very well presented. So if you start to sell on craft markets and flea markets be very sure that you are taking advantage of every single trick that you can use to optimize your sales.
6. Equally your website will need to be extremely targeted to get you sales without it being too widely aimed, and not produce any business.
7. Retail out lets that are carrying your stock must be watched very closely as they tend to have a bad habit of not treating your stock with the correct respect.
It would be preferable to not leave stock at a retail outlet, but rather to set up a specific day for you to personally do “demonstrations” and promotions in store.
One of the biggest problems with being a crafter is the fact that you really need to be two people, one that produces the goods, and another that promotes and sells the stock. What you need to do is to merge the two skills and promote while you are producing. Do demonstrations all the time, firstly people are genuinely interested, and secondly it will allow you the opportunity to have add on products that you can get instant cash for.

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Today’s business idea is seasonal and is a part time business in the true sense of the word.
This business model is ideal for a retired person or couple.

Pet Sitting & house sitting

Naturally it goes without saying that you need tom love animals to do this work.

The more experienced you are at the care and up keep of pets and animals the better off you will be.
What you do is this….
Research all the facts that you need to know in relation to the general care of household pets.

Cover all of the most common pets, birds, dogs, cats and fish etc. do the research properly, as you will be entrusted with the care of peoples living animals.
Next put together a booklet that details all the knowledge that you gathered on the subject.
Add another detailed section covering the caring of a person’s home in their absence.
Contact all the local alarm and armed response companies and get details from them. Have real meetings with them firstly to learn how their system works, secondly to get them to refer you and thirdly to actually meet them.
Do the same with your local Vetenary practices, have a real meeting asking for both their advice and then for their referral. Leave them with such a professional manner that you will immediately be jumped to the top of their referral lists.
Any other business within the area that you are planning to work within, that has a daily or weekly delivery service, contact them with the same sort of meeting in mind.
So if the local newspaper delivery service is now willing to send you the contact details of someone who has suspended their deliveries for a few days, then you will have leads to work on.
Print very high quality pamphlets that give a lot of details about your services. Add a printed black and white text version of all your terms and conditions, including all the small details that they will need to know about you.
Never leave a photocopied version of your advert up at the local vet.
After you have been in business for awhile then add some referrals to the same booklet.
Detail and list all the different things that you are willing to do to the customer’s property and animals while they are away. Start with the obvious – turning on the lights every night. Add other things, clean the pool, walk the dogs.
Calculate a detailed costing for all these things.
Make it affordable.
Remember that if you are already at the customer’s home it is not much more effort to water their plant or other small items.
Be professional, earn their trust, be consistent and your business will grow to a comfortable level, and you will naturally keep getting their referral business for years.

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The very idea of working from home to me is totally natural.

Why people would want to spend time commuting daily is totally beyond my understanding.

perfect working conditions

now look carefully at this home business tool.

If I can help you to create the correct environment for the very best way to earn your living, would you jump at the chance?

Hmmm.

Just as i thought.

So loosen your tie!

lean closer!

lets do it!

Plan your own business, plan your own family time, plan your leisure time.

It really is easy.

I promise you.

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A great work from home business idea.

Working from your own home is one of the best ways to earn your living.

There are so many different ways that you can make money from home that I have decided to start to write a series of articles that will give you some ideas as to where to start.

This very first one is near and dear to me as it includes charity.

If everybody in this world that was able did their bit towards helping charities there would be a lot less need for any charity.

Here is how this idea works.

It is a mini website that is article driven.

First I need to point out to you that this is only one way that this business could be run. In every business situation there are always very many variations, and most are just as good as the other.

Further this is really just a quick and general outline designed to get the concept across.

Choose the charity that you want to support.

Then find out what product would sell well to other people that support the same charity.

That product should be digital and preferably have an affiliate system attached.

Then you create a website online, add the product, add a free report, add an auto responder, and do it all in a word press form.

Naturally the more effort you place into the SEO and other things in relation to this website the better.

What you really would be creating is a mini site.

Then you go to the charity that you want to support and get two things done. Firstly you must work out the commission structure with them so that you are all happy. The second thing that you need to do is to get them to help you find volunteers. Most charities have a mailing list of some sort.

You will now contact each and every one of those people on that list and tell them that you need their help with two things. Firstly explain that you are helping the charity to modernize, and then tell them that you only need their time, and add that the time will be spent at their own homes.

My theory is this- many more people would love helping a charity if they could fit the time in at their own pace. Late at night, or early morning, and not helping out at cake sales.

Each person that agrees to give you 2 hours a week ask them to also get you 2 more volunteers and get them to explain the 2 hours from home thing.

Finally all you need to do is to get each of those volunteers to write you 4 articles a week. Naturally some will do less and others more.

A Quick tip here, the higher the fee that the charity receives then the easier it will become to keep your volunteers.

Explain to the volunteers that you are using internet marketing to raise funds for the charity. If you can get them to track the results of the traffic with you over time at the website then they will very likely work even harder.

You could even have someone to do the keyword research, and another to place the articles up onto the directories.

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I am Rob Anderson .

I am a veteran flea marketeer, and have been doing craft markets for a long time.

I will give ANYONE free advice if they need to get help on any aspect of making money with crafting.

call me..

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Work From Home Report

An Instant way to start up a home business and make money within days – Trade shows, Home Businesses, Flea markets, Crafters, Consultants, Decorators, Technicians, designers and many more types of businesses

A 15 Book Small Home Business Training System

I have decided to do a post here offering some information on my full WORK- FROM – HOME report as I realised that most of what I offer for free here on this blog relates directly to the main report.

Let me explain.

The main purpose of the report that I have written was to allow CRAFTERS and flea market and small home business people to get some help getting the maximum results and profits out of their home businesses.

The main thrust of the report was to take a new or existing small business owner and show you how to maximise your business potential.

90% of the report is aimed at the offline part of your business. ( I am very capable of giving you massive help in the online section of your business too – but that part is not included in the Work from Home report)

It almost does not matter as to what your small home business is, the report sort of covers it all.

So for example if you are a traditional crafter business and have got a fairly strong business running already – I can still show you  5 different ways to diversify your business.

The idea is to stabilize your business and get it running on three different anchor systems.

The reason for this is to allow you to achieve a bigger turnover, have your business running at the maximum capacity all the time, and allow you to absorb any staggers that the world throws at you.

Equally if you are a landscape garden designer and are either starting or running already – I will help you to look for and apply two different income streams that will also allow you that stability.

Now this does not mean that you are forced into running a triple split business, I obvoiusly show you all you need to simply get your small home business running with all the possible turbo sections on full blast.

Now while the largest part of the report does aim at promotion of your business through craft markets and trade shows or flea markets – the other options are covered.

I go so far as to say that if your business is so wierd that it cannot be covered within the report, I will do a personal analasis for you and your business to help you look at the best income earning options.

I am not one for a lot of bull shit and hype, even though I have been repeatedly told that I have to RA RA you guys all the time.

Personally I do not care that I could be getting more sales if I hyped up this sales copy.

Hell I offer a money back guarantee anyway so if you buy it and then think that you cannot get any benefit out of it – cool you get your money back.

How scary can that be?

So many people are coming online to look for a quick way to make money and are hitting a solid wall of information and options that they are in fact regressing and end up more confused that when they started.

Worse – they Are poorer.

Now I can show you how to set up a blog and add your craft product or TV wall units for that matter, but it will not likely make you money very fast.

In the long run the internet will out earn most other  ways to make money, but in the beginning a simple off line approach to your business will make you the quickest money. My report will take your wall unit systems and if you already have some stock – you can be earning money after the first weekend.

Or I will take your Quilts, your Scrap books, your Dog jackets, your printed t shirts or your portable solar charging panels and show you how to double or triple your sales.

Whether you make widgets or spring rolls the basic promotional or marketing rules all fit the same.

I want to help you move your business to the end of the rainbow.

WHAT IS IN THE WORK FROM HOME REPORT

What you get is 15 books of sections. The most important being the second to 6th books, as the 8th to 15th books are pictorials to help you get a visual idea of some of the possibilities.

Sections covered are idea generating, Business planning, business plans, preperation, promotion and a bunch of hints and tips.

Click on the picture i

f you need to go to a sales page that has a more complete list of all the whhohaas in the report.

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This post will be to try to explain the different pricing options available to you..
The reason why I have added this pricing post as a separate post is that some of the pricing will change.
For the foreseeable future I offer three different pricing structures.
If you have found my product through a different source and have paid the full price of $ 97.00 – that was great thank you, but you are entitled to a refund of the difference or can request personal “mentoring” to make up the difference.

So if you want to still pay $97 00 and get mentoring then by all means go here… to pay…

For me to try and find all the different places online where the existing adverts are placed would be impossible.
Equally I have been offering a second tier special – At $ 48 00 or thereabouts to any and all who got involved in different launch things that I have done or even are still doing.
So the Correct pricing that I am offering still stands at $ 48 00. and if you are happy to pay that then go here … to pay.

BUT – people are becoming free members every day and I have clearly lost track of who paid what. And I did for a while offer a WSO at a special price of $22 00 that was just for that launch period. This price went out to my then new e mail list as an incentive to them too.
NOW – most of my new members are coming in daily through the e mail list promotions that I am doing. That would make those new members also entitled to the special price. IF YOU ARE ALREADY ON MY EMAIL LIST then…
YOU CAN STILL GET THE FULL REPORT FOR THE $22 00 PRICE.
But as this was exclusively only for my E Mail list members or members of the warrior forum, you will have to do the purchase this way….
join up to my list here…

Then email me the details – I will check that you are in the list system and send you the purchase link for the special price immediately.
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Finally just to add this fact below.
Once a time has lapsed and I have had more feedback to the product – as I said in the report, I plan to do a major revision.
What exact form this revision will take is yet to be decided upon.
I am in three minds as to what to do.
Option one is to cut it all back to two simpler reports ( business plan and hints and tips) and offer those two products for a reduced amount.
Option two is to increase the product, re write it into a slightly better and easier to follow format. Add bunches of video and audio and how to sections and charge $300 00
Option three would be to put the membership site together properly ( which was the original plan) and offer different membership levels.
Hell – it could take years.

This business model is one that I personally used for a long time.

The simplicity of this method of earning money and the fact that you are extremely mobile makes it a great business for someone than needs to start up a small business.

What this business idea is.

You use a very fine pointed pen to write someone’s name onto a grain of rice.

Then you place that grain of rice into a small glass tube, fill it with oil and then glue a plug into the top.

Finally you fit a metal cap and hang it onto a leather thong or chain.

You would place some samples on a table or display board for visitors to your stall to see and choose from.

There are very often glass blowers that will make up very high quality glass forms to give you variety to offer the buyers. I had some brilliant shapes, like dolphins, crosses, round balls and teardrop type styles. You were able to charge more for the patterned ones like putting two names of lovers into a heart shaped holder.

Now that is the very basic outline of the business model.

The fun starts here, as I am not a very normal business marketer, and I feel that there is always scope for tweaking and growth.

So the very first thing that I did was to offer a second style where I also did full designs onto a bigger grain of pasta rice. Because this grain was bigger it allowed me to do a huge amount more onto the surface of the grain. Naturally the novelty of the grain of rice being written on made a big impact, but when faced with a “novelty” option or a more detailed picture option, the colorful one was always the winner.

Now this gives you a huge amount more scope to develop your product. You can do examples with multiple intertwined hearts with the names inside. You can place different items into the oil to complement the grain. A good example was a mustard seed with a religious quote placed together. Another example would be a picture of an elephant on the grain with a small piece of veldt grass added.

Over time I thought up hundreds of good examples. What I would then do was to prepare stock before hand, and then when visitors appear at your stall you will have a stand on display with a couple of hundred of prewritten samples. You can write the popular bands and stars that are popular, you can write popular name brands and big iconic things.

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The options will keep coming to you because guests will spend time looking through your stock and then they will get an idea and tell you about it.

Creating a vibe around your stall is a skill all on its own that can double your sales, and done correctly you can easily earn a living from this business model.

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Working from home is becoming a highly sought out method of earning your living

flea market

while most people that are using the internet to search for work from home opportunities the off line methods are sometimes still the safest for a newcomer.

There are many ways that you can do business from your own home, as a consultant or adviser, a specialist if you like and this is very popular.

equally there are a lot of small manufacturers and crafters that are producing very high quality products from their own home workshops. these products can be sold wholesale or retailed at the shows and festivals or flea markets everywhere.

I have a combined 30 years of experience in being self employed and working from home. I have spent three months putting together a 15 book training system aimed at that person who would like to run their own small home business.

This report covers almost all the things that you will need to start to make your own profits in a small off line home business.

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Work from Home Business idea – three.

What I really like about this business idea is that you can get started TODAY.

There are not many businesses that you can start up and be running at a profit at the end of the first day.

It is a service business.

This is what you will need to do…..

You go and have a meeting with the management of a retirement village, or old age home.

You agree on a percentage that you will pay for the rights to run your service business with the residents of the place.

Then you write up a carefully worked out price list for being a “runner” for the residents.

What you will be offering to do is to do the running back and forth to the drugstore / chemist, or the supermarket, or the, or the, …….

Then you set a day of the week when you offer really great rates, as you will be doing very many from that village in one trip.

You also offer a higher price to do special trips, say to collect things from family members, or to drop of x rays at specialists.

The third level fee is for after hours where you need to do emergency things.

Naturally in the beginning you will not be very busy, but as time goes on and the residents learn to rely on the fact that you are always there every Tuesday morning, they will begin trusting you. Pretty soon you will be going from room to room compiling up a list that will keep you busy.

You will need to be a very organized and efficient person to make this business work. The quicker you are able to get in and out the grocery store the bigger your profits will be.

If you avoid the long chatting sessions, and go about your job with a friendly smile you will never be without work.

Obviously the relationship that you have with the management is crucial, as they have the ability to have you kicked out or banned from the property. However equally if they get involved with you from the very beginning they have the power to make you a success from the very first day.

Once you have one village running smoothly you will be able to add a second and then a third until you are unable to fit in any more. DO NOT take on more than you can handle as you will ruin your reputation and it is hard to repair.

Great, I hope this has made sense as I admit I feel a little scatty today, if you are confused then please contact me and we can discuss the idea further.

Finally if you implement this idea, please get the results to me as the real numbers will be a great help to others.

Thanks

Rob Anderson.

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