:: The Artful Nest ::

A Safe Place to Grow your Craft Business, and Give it Wings.

The KEY to success, for Artists and Crafters who sell at art & craft fairs.
Get your Free List of the 10 Ways to make more Money as a Craft Show artist,
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If you are like many crafters, you really enjoy making your art and selling it, in person, to people that you meet at fairs. You may really enjoy the travel involved because it takes you to new places...or you might hate it because you would rather stay home. If that second one is you, you will really enjoy the information and services provided here because they will, without a doubt, help you to grow your business online. Even if you don't intend to use the internet exclusively, you will learn how to take your crafts online in order to reach more people.

What if you could increase your craft fair income, so that you sell more at each fair, and also make sales after the fact, even while you sleep?

There are plenty of websites where you can find lots of information, much of it free, on how to make quality crafts, increase your profits by buying supplies at the least expensive places, save on travel, set up a cool looking booth, and talk to people. My biz partner, Ilysa, will be doing an exclusive audio e-course about how she supported herself for several years doing shows all around the country- you'll hear more about that when it's ready. This isn't that type of information.

This is the only place where you will find information on exactly what to do to market your crafts to the people who want to buy them. This site will not repeat info on craft show success- you can google it. What this site will do is teach you how to leverage relationships, or assist you with services designed to help you reach more people with your crafts.

How would you like to have customers come to a show that is local to them, intending to buy from you, specifically?
Or how about that customer who didn't buy- but asked you for a card. What if they actually came to your website a month later, found what they were looking for (and have been saving for in order to complete the purchase) bought the item, and you get to find the money in your paypal account when you wake up?

Let's face it- at a craft fair, you have a very quick moment of opportunity. Many customers, myself included, go to a show with a limited budget and the idea that they will check out the vendors first, and come back and buy the couple of items that they can afford. And- that caught their eye, filled a specific need, or struck them, at that moment, on an emotional level.

However, those same people who didn't buy from you today, for whatever reason, are potential customers. In this business, you are missing opportunities to create customers if you don't first create RELATIONSHIPS. How on earth do you create relationships with people you have met once, for 3 minutes?

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Stop missing out on after-the-show sales,
Start connecting with your local customers, before you even arrive in town,
Stop wasting time and money on software and internet systems you don't understand how to use,

Awaken the power within you, to create relationships with people so that they Know, Like, and Trust you- and after that, you can ask them to buy something!

Here in The Artful Nest, you will learn what you need to know to market your business- by learning that relationships create sales. Topics include:

When your skills have grown beyond the basics, you will stretch your wings and fly from the nest, ready to take on the world!

Please claim your free mini-course, right here. Learn exactly what to do to start building relationships with your present and future customers, including my recommendations of which resources to use. This course is presented in a beautiful magazine-style interface with "real" flipping pages, and includes all of my sources for creating the best promotional materials, setting up shop very cheaply, getting a free website, and keeping in touch with customers before, and after the sale. This special gift is covered by a Creative Commons non-Commercial Attribution license, which means you can feel free to spread the link around to anyone you might want to share it with. You can even embed the link in your own blog if you wish!


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~Kira

 

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