Craft Inc Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
Craft Inc Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
Craft, Inc. is the hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money. Pro crafter Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth interviews with such craft luminaries as Jonathan Adler, Lotta Jansdotter, Denyse Schmidt, and Jill Bliss provide inspiration and practical advice. Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. paves the way for today’s creative minds to become tomorrow’s trendsetters.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great Book!!
This book is a great reference guide and is very easy to read. Anyone thinking of starting a business in crafts should be encouraged to read this book!!
5 Stars Excellent book
This book definitely earns five stars. Its easy to understand, inspirational and great for people just getting started in the craft business. I felt she was talking right to me. I’ve been hesitating for a while about starting a craft business and have been inspired to go ahead and go for it. I found this book extremely helpful.
4 Stars Good reference book
This book was very useful when I was starting my business. I really like the design of the book it is very cute. I also like the stories and interviews of small business owners. I plan to keep this book as a reference.
5 Stars Just what I was looking for
What a motivator! This book is jam-packed full of good advice for starting up your own art/craft-related business. In the midst of a major DIY and craft movement, this book is just the ticket for anyone who has ever thought, “Hey…I could do that.”
As an graduate from a fine arts college, I left school feeling overwhelmed about how to make it on my own. Taxes, laws, startup, recordkeeping — it was all a blur, too much to handle at the time. But now I have (almost) everything I need in one little handy book. And trust me, I had looked everywhere for a book like this.
The interviews are great offered me the most insight for starting up a business. Much of the marketing advice was pretty common sense to me, but might be helpful for those who have no idea where to start. And of course, the design of the book is wonderful. Pardon me for a moment for focusing on aesthetics, but the rounded corners and simple graphic design is very appealing!
I would actually be interested in seeing another volume of this book that would be entirely about legal issues and recordkeeping — this is the area where most of my questions are, and Craft, Inc. just grazes the surface of it. It would be awesome to read a simple, no-nonsense guide to business and legal matters, written in the same clear and entertaining style of this book.
5 Stars Yes!! This book has everything!
This book is amazing, it covers business forms, what to bring at craft fairs, how to name your business, advertising, publicity… you name it! I bought one to share, but I had to have my own it’s so valuable. Thanks!
