Creative Marketing for your handmade business

For some, marketing is a dark art – that magical skill that through smoke and mirrors automatically
generates customers and sales for your business.

Using social media in your handmade business

With 39 million people, active on
social media in the UK, it’s now
one of the quickest and most
cost-effective ways to market and
sell your product from home.

Understanding intellectual property and copyright

Most people understand basic copyright laws, but all too often we see handmade crafts for sale blatantly ignoring the law, and we hear of Etsy stores, and Facebook pages shut down for copyright infringement.

Turn your handmade hobby into ££s!

Photo by Hello I’m Nik on Unsplash

If you have a hobby, you are passionate about we expect you’ve thought about trying to turn it into a business.

Some of you may have already started, some of you are wondering whether you should take the plunge, some of you are just wondering if you could make some money on the side? Of course, you can!

Five favourite things on Twitter today

Here’s five fab things we spotted while ‘window shopping’on Twitter today….

Need to ‘knock up’ a Halloween costume?

We’ve been there – two nights before the big night and the small child decides they want to be anything other than the easy fancy dress costume that’s ready to go! They want to be a bat / zombie princess / pumpkinhead or in our case (last year) a Minecraft creeper. 

Our five favourite crafty things from Twitter today

Over on Twitter we follow thousands of handmade makers, but blink and you’d miss them so here are our five favourite crafty things for today.

Below:  hand blown glass memorial jewellery, dinky dolls house cocktails, charming Winnie the Pooh bunting, gorgeously simple charm bracelet and a too-cute needlefelt otter!

The Difference Between Business Success and Failure

When we started Our Crafty Things, we noticed that there was a massive difference between home-based craft businesses that were making money and sales and those that were struggling. It wasn’t necessarily the quality of their crafts/products but their approach to running their business. 

Ewe-nique illustrated gifts

Looking for a fabulous gift? Need some inspiration? Then head over to eweniverse.com for some ewe-nique illustrated gifts created by purveyor of fine puns Craig Daly. 

Fancy a ‪‎free‬ ‪feature‬ post?

Copyright: arcady31 / 123RF Stock Photo

We are giving away 5 free ‘feature posts’ on a first come first served basis to those that contact us here with the words ‘Yes please feature us for free’.

You provide the photo/s and the information (or web link) and we will create a lovely feature post promoting you and your products, and we will share it across our social media (that’s 11,000+ Twitter followers and 699 Facebook followers).