Resources for Craftspeople and Retailers
Current Regional News
Leads on shop openings and closings, workshops, businesses in the news, marketing statistics, requests for product from shops, etc. Updated two times a week.
Current News From Across the Continent
Read your peers: the artist, craftsperson and retailer. Their challenges are likely to be yours.
Business
Tax forms, business permits, health insurance, lean manufacturing, exporting, energy conservation, and ...
Business Software
Open source and/or reasonably priced financial software, office suites, photo editing, spreadsheets. Artisan and gallery inventory programs. Online measurement conversion tools. More.
Business Workshops
How To Run Your Business Workshops tailored for the artisan and retailer: How To Wholesale, Marketing Toolkit for Retailers, Build a Website With Template - no Coding and others. Links to organizations who offer workshops and classes to all small businesses; marketing, bookkeeping, etc.
Craft Technique Workshops
Learn from or teach others. Many regional organizations are looking for craftspeople to teach workshops.
Guilds and Cooperatives
Others working cooperatively, in the region and beyond.
Marketing, Display, Visual Merchandising
Signage. Need to freshen up your shop! Links to many sources of inspiration.
Product Brands/Logos
Sell more product with regional brands.
Product Dev't
In order to entice your established and new accounts, you need new product every year. Here is a range of questions to ask yourself.
Press Releases - Being Newsworthy - Regional Media Outlets
The How-To and What-To of Press Releases. Contact information for 90+ regional newspaper and radio media outlets.
Statistics
Trying to update your marketing, find a industry average, find what product lines are most popular, trends from year to year. This is the place!
Supplies
Technical Assistance
Workshops, small business development centers and consultants/coaches.
Trade Associations
Whatever your media is, there are trade associations. Retailers have many options as well. Typically they have websites and publications, both with articles concerning current issues.
Wholesale
How to Prepare for Your First Wholesale Show. Links to regional and national wholesale shows, how-to-do wholesale articles and tips from people in the industry.
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