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 Topic: Craft Show advice |
Handmade Lives
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 Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Jan 24, 14 6:35 pm Subject: Craft Show advice |
Psst, click the link I gave.  Sorry I have now but I always feel a little bit baffled on Downsizer ( hangs head) |
| Topic: Craft Show advice |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 6
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Jan 24, 14 6:25 pm Subject: Craft Show advice |
 O look my signature showed up been trying to get that to work for ages. |
| Topic: Craft Show advice |
Handmade Lives
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Jan 24, 14 6:24 pm Subject: Craft Show advice |
| Thats a good point when you are talking markets but at shows direct competition inevitable |
| Topic: Craft Show advice |
Handmade Lives
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Jan 24, 14 6:08 pm Subject: Craft Show advice |
Hi I have just written a couple of pieces on doing craft shows. One is on choosing your show
http://handmadelives.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/picking-craft-shows/
The second piece is on preparations ... |
| Topic: Please critique my ad |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Jan 24, 14 5:49 pm Subject: Please critique my ad |
| Lots of good advice. I would add use only white bed linen as then people feel it is fresh and clean for them and change your headline to "Well equipped farmhouse in Calais countryside " or something l ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
Views: 16630
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jul 24, 12 4:34 pm Subject: Craft sales |
| I think leave them mixed in otherwise it is no spur to sales. But it is a balance between the website looking unattended and fresh sales popping in. I think a section of previously sold might look dan ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jul 24, 12 12:30 pm Subject: Craft sales |
| No I wouldn't be comfortable with false Solds either, but what I do on my button website is put Solds on rather than take down the item as seeing that the choice is decreasing does encourage people to ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jul 24, 12 11:51 am Subject: Craft sales |
keeping your visibility ticking over that's exactly what you have to do Its not a big deal once you have got started but its very hard work to build. Its like plate spinning.
The trouble is if you ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
Views: 16630
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Tue Jul 24, 12 10:49 am Subject: Craft sales |
Touchwood Thats the way things go, nothing is happening, the whole world seems to ignore you, whatever you do, then out of the blue you get a little run of interest and HOPE returns.
Getting notice ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
Views: 16630
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Thu Jun 07, 12 10:13 pm Subject: Craft sales |
I tried to follow the link to your blog and my computer froze
There is nothing sinister there I promise I just checked the link and it is healthy. But I know just how you feel, its scalded cat time ... |
| Topic: Craft sales |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 14
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Thu Jun 07, 12 8:14 am Subject: Craft sales |
I am a bit shame faced about doing this as I have been neglecting Downsizer from time pressures but I have written a piece which I hope you would find interesting and perhaps useful.
I have been t ... |
| Topic: Shop. |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 29
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Sat May 12, 12 9:46 am Subject: Shop. |
| Don't go for a big plan, pick an element and develop that and see how it goes. Its very very easy to spend money in the belief you are investing. |
| Topic: High blood pressure and salt |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 31
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Mon Apr 09, 12 3:52 pm Subject: High blood pressure and salt |
| On the booze front I dont get that properly, as drinking takes my blood pressure down. Any one know about that? [/quote] |
| Topic: Why handmade is "so expensive" |
Handmade Lives
Replies: 79
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Mon Apr 09, 12 3:42 pm Subject: Why handmade is "so expensive" |
| I think it is important to recognise that people who handmake things are standing in a very odd place to work out what the market will pay. Crafts people, as we have all been saying, earn very little, ... |
| Topic: Postal Price Rises |
Handmade Lives
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Sat Mar 31, 12 8:27 am Subject: Postal Price Rises |
What I find unbelievable is how difficult it is to find the new prices Where are the leaflets?? I am a Royal Mail online customer why haven't they emailed their customers to give the new prices?
H ... |
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