If you are doing it right, many craft products showcased on your craft shop or soap shop website have wonderful photos of your craft. When it comes to crafts that are more applicable than art pieces, you likely have some shots of how your craft is used and in action. If you’re smart, you’ll also have a detailed description of the product written next to the photo letting the buyer know the craft’s details and uses. Job’s done, right? No!
If you have crafts such as bath oils, facial scrubs, or other crafts that would require application or assembly, your customer base will appreciate instructions on how your product can be used to its fullest. Keep in mind that many customers are buying your craft soaps as gifts for their friends, so those people probably didn’t even visit your webpage. Including a small note with instructions (example: “Use with cold water for best results”) can eliminate all doubt. Remember how frustrating it is to assemble an IKEA bookcase with just the pictures? Don’t let that happen to your product. For more on this topic, click here:: Staffed by Mimes
A knitted stocking cap is the perfect gift this time of year. Using some 10-inch needles, yarn, and scissors, you can make a fine stocking cap for those at land or at sea. It’ll certainly warm the heads of your friends, family, or craft store shoppers. Get a full tutorial with pattern here:: Winter Sea Stocking Cap
As it gets cold outside, you or your craft shop customers will want to snuggle up and enjoy a fresh floral scent of a blue-hued Winter Gardenia candle. With the scent of peppermint, lily, and jasmine, this candle is sure to be a hit around the holidays. Learn how to make this candle at home by clicking here:: Winter Gardenia Ombre Candle
While a positive mindset has always been touted as the root for success, it might not fit your personality. The stereotype is that negative thinkers are naysayers, are unlikeable curmudgeons, and won’t amount to anything because of their negativity. However, that’s not true. Sometimes negative thinking can lead to better decisions for your craft shop business.
By thinking negatively, you can see what possibilities that can go wrong and take steps to avoid them. It also allows you to think critically about certain decisions and which ones to choose based on the process of elimination. While being a grump isn’t pleasant, taking that negative part of yourself can help create a realistic balance against your dreams in order to achieve tangible success in your craft sales. For more on how being negative can be positive, click here:: The Positive Results of Being Negative
Earrings made out of festively colored buttons can make a great gift for your friends, family members, or craft shop customers. With a little bit of thread, some buttons, and jump rings, your ears can project the holiday spirit to all who see them. For a complete tutorial, click here:: Holiday Button Earrings
Just because Movember has ended doesn’t mean that a man can’t keep and sport a mighty mustache! Using some castor oil, vitamin E, and cera bellina wax, you can make some quality mustache sculpting wax for the Dapper Dans in your life or at your online soap shop. Get the full recipe here:: Sculpting Mustache Wax
Thanksgiving occurred yesterday and it is during this time of year when Americans stop for a moment of reflection. What are you thankful for this year? For people who are able to make living sell soaps or other crafts, there is plenty to be thankful for.
First, there is the obvious: using your creativity as means to make money. There are fortunate few that are able to do what they love for a living. Second, is having total control over your health and schedule. Being your own boss means making your own hours which means you can make better personal decisions. If you want, you can have a healthy lunch at home, taking as much time as you need, rather than trying to wolf down a vending machine snack. Also, making your own hours means that you are able to make time with friends and friends, solidifying those relationships. While running an online craft business independently has its hassles, there is certainly a lot that one can appreciate from it. For more on thankfulness, click here:: The Gift of Self-Employment
You can make an effective eye cream at the home using only two ingredients. Putting some coconut oil into a glass container and crushing a few vitamin E capsules into it can make an inexpensive cream to treat the skin under and above your eyes. To get the full recipe, click here:: Make Homemade Eye Cream with Only 2 Ingredients
It is now possible that to take the wonderful scents of chocolate and mint and merge them together for a lovely scented soap. With some mint and chocolate fragrance oil and some melt-and-pour soap materials, you can make enough soap for your shop, your friends, and yourself within 45 minutes. For a full recipe, click here:: Chocolate Mint Melt and Pour Soap Squares
You’re running your craft shop and feel the need to give back some how. There’s a charity or a cause that you’d like to help support, so why not lend a hand? There are a number of reasons to incorporate certain causes or charities to your craft or soap shop.
Adding a link to your favorite charity or cause onto your online shop’s page gives the customers a window into your personality and what you care about. You’ll find that many within your customer base may have similar passions. If you’d like, it’d be good to create a product or soap and state that proceeds from the sale will go to that particular charity. It’ll help out the cause and probably increase profits in the process. All of this can not only help out your cause and make a few extra sales, but also creates a community around your business that will create a recurring consumer base. For more on social good within your craft/soap business, click here:: 8 Tips to Incorporate Social Good Into Your Business