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If you are a craft artist, educator, gallery owner, collector - anyone who has a significant investment in the future of the crafts industry.
Crafts Business wants to utilize your input, suggestions, advice, comments and criticism to provide a magazine that will help you "run your business" more successfully and efficiently, so you can concentrate on what you would rather be doing - creating, selling, teaching, buying . . .
However, if you need name(s): Click Here
Crafts Business is published 7x a year. Six bi-monthly issues and an annual Crafts Show Resource Guide.
Crafts Business is a nationally distributed magazine designed to assist professional crafts artists and retailers in the various facets of managing a crafts business, by providing business information, advice and support, in an in-depth and entertaining manner. Crafts Business also features topics of interest to the crafts community, including lifestyle issues, legislative news and profiles.
Issues of Crafts Business include: profiles of successful craft artists and retailers and how they manage their business - with tips that will help you achieve the same success, how you can manage your studio and travel costs more efficiently, photography, insurance and legal issues, advertising and marketing advice, show previews and reviews, and more.
Look for features on subjects such as:
- How to Overcome a Sales Slump
-Financially, Artistically and Psychologically
- Developing Your Niche Market
- Ways To Build Traffic to Your
Website
- Creating a professional catalog/sales
piece
- Saving money when you travel.
Tips and secrets from a professional traveler
- The mistakes I’ve made
- learn from the mistakes of a successful artist
- What wholesale buyers and collectors really looking to buy

And regular columns such as:
- 5 Questions with . . .
- Regional Focus
- Ask the Artist
- Advertising Techniques
- On The Road
- Marketing Your Medium
- In The Studio
- Life As A Craft Artist
- Mastering The Web
Information and Advice for the Successful Crafts Professional












