rself in arts and crafts. If you are a multi skilled human being,then shortlisted it in a piece of paper. Start with the most unique skill you have.
If you have 5 different kinds of unique skills,then jot it down all 5 categories. The more talented skills you have the better.
- Pick one or two categories to be your main product.
Let say, you have been gifted to be an artist in sculpting woods to become artistic home accessories. Use them as your main product. Make sure your selected product is a product that is not already made by other established craft makers because a unique product will be more attractive to the viewers.
- Recognize some models that already established in online world to be your references.
To me this is one of the important steps to be put in any of your business – online or offline. Why? Because if you want to cut-short the road towards a faster successful business, you need to follow the established website online and grab a part of their market percentage to earn quick money rather than you blown your head off to make your own website with your own idea.
If you try to use your own idea, I guarantee you’ll be facing some of these situations :
a) Chronic Headache – you need to think of which kind of website could be built, how to build it and how to market it?
b) Wasting time – you’ll be wasting most of your precious time with your loves one in making researches to have a good website.
c) Family crisis – sometimes when a wife doesn’t understand what are the husband going to do or vice verse, it will create a small family crisis.
d) Wasting money – this is also a chronic situation if you try to make it yourself. In your journey towards your dream, you will be facing situations where you’ll buy any kind of unusable softwares or references to make sure your website running smoothly.
Do you want to face these situations by yourself? No, right. So,remember,references and models can be some good guidance to succeed in any online business.
- Getting good softwares to build your first arts and crafts website.
This 5th step can be done by making some researches on which kind of good softwares to build your own website. In arts and crafts website, there are some method to market your products depends on what kind of presentation you want to implement. You can choose either by virtual catalog(if you want to market your products physically), e-book(if you want to market your idea in crafts making), video(if you want to show “How to make a craft?”), free services(if you want to give free written instruction on how to make a craft and at the same time earning income from advertisement) and etc.
There are a lot of softwares on the line offer a great length of building a website. If you’re already mastered in building a website, this is a BONUS for you.
So, if you can complete these 5 steps to make your first arts and crafts business, it means that you will become one of the arts and crafts online entrepreneur in the online world. Remember, Internet will make your small business become big. Pick good references is your main duty now and it will guide you towards a smooth journey to become one of arts and crafts online entrepreneurs in a future time.