Make Money with Handmade Wedding Invitations

A great way to expand your handmade greeting card business is to offer handmade wedding invitations. According to google trends, handmade cards are trending way up as regular mass produced cards are trending steadily downward. Now is the time to begin marketing your talents towards more lucrative areas. Many people become engaged during the Holiday season from Christmas, New Year's and through Valentine's Day. They often set their date for the following year's Spring/Summer season. Begin speaking with everyone you know and putting the word out about your cards. This gives you ample time to study and learn all the necessary details and to be prepared for your new business. The great part is you will soon be receiving orders for 100-350 cards at a time insted of 1-3 cards. This will dramatically change your business, so plan for temporary hiring and other space expansions to accomodate the manufacturing. This does not have to be a permanent space as you are probably working from home, so don't worry about taking over the den or living room temporarily, it will be well worth it! All the Best!

Handmade Greeting Cards, Give to Get

When marketing your handmade greeting cards or arts and crafts, remember 'Give to Get'.  Giving away your cards is a wonderful way to get exposure and create good will.  When we first started our business I met a man who was a fund raising events promoter.  It came up in conversation that he was having a private party in a Manhattan hotel for about 15 people.  I offered to make his invitations for him at no charge, he was thrilled.  Upon receiving the invitations, he was very pleased and he invited me to display as many cards as I liked around the hotel suite for his guest to view during the party.  To our pleasure, Kathy Hilton ended up being the receipient of one of our cards and the party led to quite a wonderfull response.

Your product is your best advertisement so never think of giving them away as an expense you can't afford.  Believe in your Art and your talent and give without the expectation of anything in return .  Remeber most mass produced items are discarded relatively quickly, anything handmade usually stays around for quite some time.  The products you have given out are likely to be 'out there' working on your behalf for a long time.

Handmade Greeting Card Success

You may have the most beautifully crafted handmade greeting cards in the world, but if 'the word is not out' about them, then success will at best be limited. If you want to change the most lives possible with your cards and yes, they do change lives(including your own), then you must work on exposure. With the truly phenomenal explosion of social networking it will certainly pay for you to utilize this for your business. In the begining nothing beats person to person, however you may want to think about including your social networking site into conversations with all your clients. One happy client with a lot of 'friends' can truly send your products 'viral' in a good way. We will be posting much more on social networking do's and don'ts, so check back often. Meanwhile Click Here! To Discover How To Turn Your Favourite Hobby, Making Greeting Cards Into A Profitable Business. Guaranteed! There is too much information to post in a blog,so check out this valuable resource loaded with what you need to know.

Making Money with your Arts and Crafts

Making Money with your Arts and Crafts is easier than you think. Over the past 10 years of our experience we have compiled the best ways we know to earn extra income doing something you love. Here are the easiest ways to make money that you probably never even thought of and they play to your strengths as well. You are definitely going to discover ideas in here that will make you say 'why haven't I thought of this sooner?' You'll love putting these easy ideas into action! Check out our handmade greeting card site at: www.creativecards4u.com/Extra_Income.html and learn how you can share your art with others and earn extra income too!

Are you a writer or have you always known that there is a book inside of you waiting to come out? Perhaps you have good information that you would like to share, then this opportunity is perfect for you. Go to our site to start making money off of your own unlimited free resource; your thoughts and words. It truly does not get any easier than this one. If writing is your gift then you are truly blessed in this age of technology!

Start your handmade greeting card business now.

Why should you start your handmade greeting card small business now?  One look at Google trends.com under the keyword, 'handmade greeting cards' and you'll see some amazing reasons.  As of 2009 there has been a huge spike in the number of online searches for handmade greeting cards.  Interestingly the searches for 'greeting cards' has been trending steadily downward,  indicating a consumer driven interest in handmade art.  We have been online with our handmade greeting cards since 2000 and have subsequently secured a consistent top 10 ranking on google under that search term as well as few others.  Now more than ever and I don't know the reason, I can only acknowledge the statistics, people are becoming more interested in this niche.  So get yourself going and expose yourArt to the world.  You can also utilize google trends.com to investigate your other small business ideas and see where they are heading.  Best of Luck!

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Small Business Exposure

Here are some tips for getting your small business more exposure. This is the first post on our new series of Small Business Exposure for your Handmade Greeting Cards or any other product/service.

Almost every town has a local paper and we mean local, not a mainstream publication yet. Get your local town/village paper and find out who the writers are and for what sections. Make contact, you must self-promote. This may seem uncomfortable, but look at the bigger picture of getting your artwork or small business idea exposure. Tell the writer who you are, how long you have lived in town, what you do and why it is a great local story. Send them a card or sample of your small business product. Offer some incentive, free writing/shipping etc. Keep in mind they may turn you down, however maintain and build the relationship. Be sure to make contact again several weeks before any Holiday, it could be the perfect time for your story/business. Relationships are everything, maintain them.

Lots more to come on our small business exposure series. Stay Tuned.

Greeting Card Small Business Tips

This weeks small business tips for your handmade greeting cards are regarding paper.

When building a small business it is important that your products are as professionally looking as possible. To give your cards a really professional look we recommend that you bring your card stock to your local printer and have all your paper professionally scored. Scoring your cards by hand can look a little sloppy and also unnecessarily waste good paper. We also suggest getting a cutting board to make clean,straight cuts. The detail cuts can always be done with scissors later. Don't worry, your cards will still have that handmade look and feel because all of your artwork is applied by hand. We hope you will appreciate the time saved and the added professionalism these tips will provide for your small business.

As far as what type of paper to use, that all depends on your individual artistic needs and whatever message you are trying to send. Contact as many companies as you can and often times they will send you free samples, which are a great boost to any small business.

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