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How to Sell Your Crafts on eBay

James Dillehay — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:00 UT

Artists, craftspeople and photographers are successfully selling their wares everyday on the online auction site, eBay. According to a recent analysis of eBay sales, a crafts-related item is sold every nine seconds, a scrapbook item is sold every minute, and 40 cross-stitch items sell in an hour on eBay. Sales of craft items on eBay have grown almost 60 percent in the past year, according to TheBidFloor.com.

Home-Based Business Start-Up: 7 Tips For Lowering Your Fear Factor

Bruce Scher — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:00:00 UT

Instead of thinking about your start-up fears, let's focus on something more interesting like; free home-based business opportunities, and free advertising. This new thinking will greatly increase your confidence in being the boss.

All of us who tell the truth will admit to having fears. Many people live their entire lives with one fear or another, but Anne Block, discovered how to side-step her fear factor into a home-based business reality.

Pricing Your Service or Product: Things To Ponder Part 1

Maria Marsala — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:00:00 UT

Terrific students attend the classes I teach. They ask profound questions that "stretch" my knowledge and resources. When I teach a building a business foundation owner class, I'm usually asked, "How does someone price a product or service?" During a recent class, I promised to write down what's in my head and send it to the students. And because of them, you now have it, too. In order to keep things simple, I'll use "services" to mean both services and products in the list below.

Pricing Your Service or Product: Things To Ponder Part 2

Maria Marsala — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:00:00 UT

Life is all about making choices and growing. The same hold true with pricing your product or service. Use the articles below to assist you as you make informed decisions about price structure. Special thanks to the articles authors who provided permission for their articles to be used in this "link article". You'll find part 1 and 2 of this article at http://www.coachmaria.com/articles/pricing.html.

The "6 Ps" of Professional Crafting

Penny Stewart — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:00:00 UT

Once you make the decision to go into "business," you need time not only for making what youre going to sell, but also for pricing, packaging, promoting and selling. Often crafters dont realize how much work is involved. Its best to face facts before making a major commitment in time and/or money. Talk to others who are successful, and also those who have failed. Learn from their experience, so you wont have to make all the mistakes yourself.