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Proven techniques
to help your
craft sales soar!

Provided by a published designer
with over 15 years experience!

 

Now you too can rest assured that your craft sales will never slump again!  Whether you are just starting a home craft business or are already struggling to make a go of it, this comprehensive set will make sure that your home based craft business is not a hassle but a fun, money-making venture.

Gain confidence in yourself, and your products as each day passes once you see your home based craft business profits explode like you've never seen them explode before. Learn wonderful techniques to increase your overall profits and receive top selling project patterns for some of today's best selling items.

Profitable Crafts provides so much information related to maximizing your arts & crafts profits that you'll never have to worry about if your products will sell or not.

You'll create your crafts with confidence knowing before hand that you're providing items that people will buy, and pricing them perfectly for maximum profits without ever having to lower your prices just because you think lowering your prices will help your products sell better.

WHOA GO MARIA!!! I love the information, so full of wisdom and encouragement! YES, all that you say is so true, and I love the WalMart story, I will have to remember that one! AND the "if you bring me a piece of that $20 a square fabric I will knock off $20".. WONDERFUL advice!! These are the kinds of things that we all need to learn about!! Deb H.

A Bit About The Author

Maria has been crocheting since she was 11 years old, and has over 15 years experience at selling at arts and crafts shows. When she attends shows, she always receives visits from other crafters that have booths at the same shows, asking her for advice when they see her booth full 95% of the time with paying customers.

She has mentored literally hundreds of crafters, both online and off, and helped them turn their part-time hobby into a profitable full-time business. She has not had a single person complain about her techniques not working, even though she has over 10 years experience of providing her mentoring services for craft related topics.

She has over 13 years experience at designing her own crochet patterns and other craft projects, and has had a number of her patterns and projects published in national magazines. She has had one article published in a national magazine, and has also won numerous awards for some of her best designs.

In Vol. 1, You Will Quickly Learn How Tohome based craft business craft and home business idea

  • Create products that sell so fast that you can barely keep up with your orders.
  • Price your products for maximum profits without confusion.
  • Cut costs on your materials without killing the quality of your products.
  • Ensure that your booth stays packed with paying customers.
  • Stock your booth effectively to increase sales.
  • Cater to the needs of two types of shoppers that are sorely neglected by most crafters, and why you should cater to their needs for increased sales.
  • Provide super fast items, and exactly what they are.
  • Prevent your shoppers from seeing your products as low quality and inferior, and why lowering your prices could make them think just that.
  • Barter and provide layaway, and why you should never overlook these two methods to increase sales and save money.
  • How to convert the 2 main types of shoppers into customers for life, and why you shouldn't waste much time on the third type of shopper.
  • Create small gifts that's inexpensive to make, and how they could increase your sales 100%.
  • Never become a "Fake" crafter.
  • How to make personalized cloth labels that will not be torn off your items.
  • Increase your profits by as much as 300% by implementing just this one tactic before every show.

You will also find included in the manual, 11 crochet patterns that you are free to use for making hot crocheted items that sell like hotcakes!

One of these patterns is a wonderful thread bear pattern. Thread Bears have proven to be hot sellers and wonderful products for people of all ages. These miniature creations have sold for as much $300 each on a particular well-known auction site!

Everything you need to know about maximizing your profits, increasing sales of your products and gaining new customers is included in this manual!

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profitable crafts home businessIn Vol. 2, You Will Quickly Learn How To

  • Approach storeowners and convince most of them to sell your products for you.
  • Protect yourself by providing the proper type of agreement for consignment sales.
  • Stand back and let your products sell themselves.
  • Sell your products even if you have no inventory pre-made.
  • Determine why sales could be slow in a particular store by just looking at yards.
  • Replace slow selling items with items that are more suitable to a particular stores location, to help increase your sales.
  • Protect yourself from paying hidden fees that some business owners may try to charge you, for something that they shouldn't charge you for at all.
  • Protect your copyrights on projects that you've designed.
  • Create a simple swap file that will save you an extreme amount of time when you start submitting your designs for publication.
  • Properly contact magazine editors, to increase you chances of having your designs accepted for publication.
  • Properly submit your designs to editors so that you won't get extremely embarrassed as I did when I submitted my first design to a national publication.
  • Self-Publish your own designs affordably using your home computer.
  • Follow a simple 12 step system to not only sell your designs successfully, but also to properly research and test to make sure that your designs will sell before you invest too much time and materials in designing your projects.

Did you know that you could make one costly mistake that could legally prevent you from ever using your own design? If one of your projects is accepted for publication in a magazine, and if you're not very careful about signing the contract provided, then you could loose the rights to ever use your own design again in the future!

Learn how to prevent this costly mistake before it's too late!

Everything you need to know about consignment sales and getting your projects published is included in this manual!

Just imagine the pride you'll feel when you can start depositing your profits each week into your growing savings account, growing your nest egg month after month, year after year!

 
My first craft fair turned out to be a BAD weather day, so not many people showed up - probably less than 20 customers all day. Many vendors didn't even make a sale. I was blessed enough to make about $150. I was SO proud! Thank you for your advice. Jeannie C.

After reading all of your information, whole new worlds are opening up for me!! You are simply incredible! Now I want to learn to make soaps!! My husband is going to throw my computer away if I don't settle down!! lol Thanks for showing me the new things and helping me to tap into my own creativity!! Sheila S.

You come up with the most creative advertising! That's where its toughest for me I think, so greatly appreciate your sharing!!!!! Randi M.

 

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Vol. 3 Will Teach You How To Easily...

  • See things with a different perspective to help make designing easier.
  • Design wonderful products using normal every day household objects.
  • Design crocheted dresses for dolls quickly and easily without using a pattern.
  • Make sewn clothing for dolls that fit perfectly.
  • Use things in nature like sticks to create wonderful gifts for your loved ones.
  • craft business ideaBrainstorm so that you can come up with many different designs from just one object.
  • Use nature to help get your creative juices flowing.
  • Improve your designing skills by using something as simple as a spoon, can and pencil.
  • Design in crochet quickly and easily following just a few simple techniques.
  • Design a wonderful dollhouse, using nothing but sticks and cardboard.

 

Designing your own arts and crafts projects just got easier than you could have ever imagined!

If you've ever wanted to design your own projects and patterns, for publications or just to provide unique gifts for your loved ones, then this volume of Profitable Crafts will have you designing wonderful new products in no time.

It doesn't matter if you've never designed a single crafts product - the methods covered in this manual are easy enough for any beginner to understand and follow.

Even if you are a professional designer, you'll still find methods and techniques included in this manual to help improve your designing skills.

I designed my first doll dress thanks to your help and it turned out GREAT! I'm going to start on the dollhouse this week and make a large one for my daughter so that she can finally have the dollhouse of her dreams. Keep the books coming Maria, I'm enjoying every single one of them! Deirdre T.

It doesn't matter what type of craft you like to make, or what your favorite hobby is. The techniques provided in this volume of Profitable Crafts can be applied towards any craft, no matter what your current skill.

When designing your own projects and patterns, you will then become the legal copyright holder for your designs and can then resell your patterns and instructions for increased profits.

You'll find such joy in designing your own projects once you devour what's in this manual, that you may never use another's instructions again!

 

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In Vol. 4, Discover All Of These Wonderful Techniques And More...

  • There is one mistake that could be quite costly that you should neverbusiness organization crafts make when creating your catalogs. Learn what this mistake is, and how not to make it.
  • Discover the best way to layout your catalogs products the first time, to ensure that your catalogs look professional while providing a wide variety of your best selling items.
  • Sometimes creating a brochure would be your better choice, learn the reason why.
  • Did you know that one mistake in shipping can not only cause you to loose profits, but also sales?
  • Discover two affordable programs that make catalog creation a breeze. No need for expensive desktop publishing software!
  • Although you may not be able to provide samples of your products, I share with you some extremely cheap gift items that you can still provide with your catalogs to help increase your sales even more, and to help gain trust of those that receive your catalogs.
  • Learn a successful method that will guarantee you a steady stream of new contacts that you can mail your catalogs to, without the cost of expensive contact database lists that sometimes run hundreds of dollars.
  • Learn about the "Crazy Catalog" game, and how just one catalog can generate you sales from as many as 20 different people! By using one catalog instead of 20, you greatly reduce your printing costs without loosing out on sales.
  • Create the perfect one-dollar catalog full of one-dollar items, without needing to create a single product! I share with you my source for obtaining wonderful craft kits that are as low as .24 cents per kit!
  • Learn step-by-step exactly how to start recruiting others to sell for you, with a sales team that is not only happy about promoting for you, but that will help you gain new sales team members as well!
  • Learn what type of kit to provide your sales force, to help them get off to a successful start.
  • Discover how to host the perfect home party, and feel free to share these tips with your sales team members and hostesses.
  • How would you like a sales force that stretches out across the nation! Learn why having an online presence would be the best business decision you could make to ensure the fast growth of your sales team!

It doesn't matter if you don't have a single day's worth of sales experience, the methods in this manual makes selling your products easier than ever.

 
It appears that you really have a handle on this internet stuff, I wish I could have found a mentor such as yourself to help me in my journey to independence and entrepreneurship...B. Griffin

Just imagine the profits you will make once you have hundreds (or even thousands) of salespeople across the nation sharing your catalogs and selling your products for you!

You will get at least 10 times your money's worth and will prevent a lot of headaches in the future once you've devoured what's in these manuals!

Maria Vowell usually charges a significant fee to teach others just a few of the methods covered in these manuals, but you can get these methods today at a very affordable price!

Remember, you get the manuals full of pricing strategies, tips, tactics, techniques, patterns and methods to increase your sales and profits of your craft-related products. Wonderful crochet and other patterns so you can create hot items that sell, and a wonderful thread bear pattern so you can start making these wonderful super selling miniature creations!

You can't lose with our 100%,
ironclad, money back guarantee

If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, then I will issue you a 100% no questions asked refund! Just try these methods for 30 days, and if you do not see an increase in your sales and profits, then contact me for a full refund!

Special Bonus:  You get FREE resale rights to this entire package, including ready-made Web pages and graphics.  This e-book package will pay for itself with just one resale!  You keep 100% of the money from reselling these fabulous e-books!

Use the order link below to order Profitable Crafts today for only $49.99!  Instant download, plus resale rights - keep 100% of the profits from resale of these e-books.  Sell one at a time or all four volumes together!

 

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