| This blog is written by closetguy | 32 entries so far |
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Online R Us #5: Promoting With Etsy and Others
Etsy has a lot of its own promotion capability right on their site. 1. Showcase – This is w...
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Online R Us #4: You're Never Too Old for Facebook
I have to confess, being an older guy, I would have never had anything to do with Facebook if it ...
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Online R Us #3: Tweet, Tweet
Twitter is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. It took me over a year to figure out what i...
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Online R Us #2: Take the Plunge With Etsy
There are many different sites to sell on and I’ve tried a few. None have ever provided the expo...
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Online R Us #1: Pack Them In
What a great business! I get to spend time in my shop making widgets while listening to Led Zepp...
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Crafts Shows R Us #19: Online Sales in 2010
This is a continuation of my discussion on 2010 craft sales. The previous blog was getting a lit...
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Crafts Shows R Us #18: How 2010 Finished Out
It’s been a while since my last blog on this subject and I have finally got to a point where I ca...
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Crafts Shows R Us #17: Just A Little Bit Of Drama
I have good shows, bad, shows, wet shows, and hot shows. Every show is different, but they all s...
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Crafts Shows R Us #16: Sometimes It's Just Plain Bad
I seem to always talk about the good shows and mention that I have bad shows, but I have never re...
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Crafts Shows R Us #15: Thank Goodness for Fall Shows
I just got back from the Maryville, Tennessee show, which is consistently my best show every year...
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Crafts Shows R Us #14: Percent of Items Sold
There has been a lot of active craft show discussion lately since we are in the middle of the sea...
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Crafts Shows R Us #13: State of the Southern Craft Shows
So far, shows for this year have been much better than last year. The crowds are large and every...
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Drum Sander Surgery
There quite a few Jocks on here that have the Jet/Performax drum sanders. I bought my 16-32 abou...
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Crafts Shows R Us #12: The Yearly Summary
I started this blog series back when I first started doing shows as a diary to show what it takes...
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Slice and Dice
A while back someone asked a forum question about what everyone does with their scrap wood and cu...
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Crafts Shows R Us #11: Rain, rain, go away
I’ve had a few emails lately from LJs asking why I have been suspiciously quiet for the last few ...
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Is is a Web or Blog?
It’s difficult to type right now because I decided to run my bandsaw blade part of the way throug...
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No leads, no sales #3: Who Are Our Customers?
So who is your customer? It’s easier to answer this question by first understanding your produc...
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No leads, no sales #2: Finding a needle in a haystack
The road is littered with great woodworkers who crashed and burned. It is also littered with par...
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No leads, no sales #1: In the beginning
I guess seven years as a full time woodworker qualifies me to have an intelligent opinion on the ...
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Crafts Shows R Us #10: 2008 Summary
Well, it was a good decision to turn down the last minute invite into the Atlanta Sugarloaf show....
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Crafts Shows R Us #9: Wouldn't you know it.....
Go Vols! For those who watched the Tennessee-Kentucky game last Saturday, I hope you saw me wavi...
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Crafts Shows R Us #8: It's Cold Outside
Today was the start of another outdoor craft show for me with a 6AM setup time. I got up at 4:30...
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Crafts Shows R Us #7: The Good, the Bad, and the Horrible
Ok, it was not quite crash and burn, but I got second degree burns from the Christmas in Lithia s...
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Crafts Shows R Us #6: Crash, Burn, Dog Paddle, or Soar
Ok, everyone is asking about numbers, and even though I think it’s too early to get into this, I ...
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Grass Roots
My first three shows were on pavement. I was really looking forward to doing one on grass, but d...
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Crafts Shows R Us #5: It's In The Bag
Why is it that the seemingly simple things are the most difficult to deal with? I knew I needed ...
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Crafts Shows R Us #4: Don't forget the chewing gum
Like I mentioned in a previous blog, you don’t know what you need at a show until you need it. I...
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Crafts Shows R Us #3: Getting it together
Ok, so I got my canopy, my tables, my brown table cloths, merchant account, my product, and all t...
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Crafts Shows R Us #2: What do I know about table cloths?
The problem when putting everything together before doing the first show is that there are too ma...
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Crafts Shows R Us #1: Part 1
I keep getting a lot of private messages from Lumberjocks asking questions about my boards and se...
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Simple Idea
I don’t use my bandsaw enough to justify leaving it out in my work zone all the time, so I ...
