Are you good enough?

[gtxmag440]

I scrollsaw and give most of my stuff to my kids and grand children. They all say they love them, but they would say that even if they dont like them to keep the old man happy. How do you know if your ready to sell? I could use extra money just to buy supplies. Thanks for any advice.

[mikesscrollsaw]

I don't do craft shows, I've tried and while I did sell some stuff it wasn't enough to justify sitting there all weekend.

 

I sell things now by word of mouth. It's not much but it's enough to fund my hobby. Buying blades, glue, etc.

[Clayton717]

I don't do craft shows, I've tried and while I did sell some stuff it wasn't enough to justify sitting there all weekend

 

I agree with Mike. I sell by word of mouth and most of the time I do pretty well, it's enough to keep my hobby going with the supplies I need. show your work to some friends/ coworkers and go from there. word will get around and hopefully you can get a couple orders.

[Jim Finn]

You just need to try selling a coupla' times. I found a sale where it just cost me $25 for the space. I only do Sat. sales. Two day sales are not for me. Second day, you sell about 20% of the amount you sell on the first day. Good luck.

[Travis]

You can start with church or charity sales. Nice thing about that is you can see if there's any interest in your products. If you want to sell just a few things here and there, you can try Etsy.com. Problem with Etsy, is that you can get swallowed up in a sea of crafters. So unless you're constantly promoting, it's hard to make any sales.

 

You can also try Ebay or Craig's List.

[Docupton]

I dont think anyone really beleives they are good enough, I know I am not, like you my family say they love them so i sent some samples out with my wife to sell at a car boot sale, she sold all but one, so even if I dont quite believe in myself it seems others do, so go for it, show Joe Public how good you are.

[amazingkevin]

I've been on the side of my friends car repair place and they are in the same parking lot as a tire store .customers have been straggeling over to keep me in food and saw blades since may last year.Now everyday someone comes over with a request so it's getting better.good thing i have no overhead.

[ben]

About 15 years ago or so I made musical animal banks. Some of these banks were very large almost 2 feet long and about 3 inches wide like my alligator bank for instance. You put a coin in them and they played various tunes.

 

These were hign end banks finished and painted very well.. Really spent time on them. They were scrolled and primed by me and finished painted by my wife. We tried to get about $50.00 to $75.00 a piece. Finally had to get them down to about 30 to 40 bucks to sell them. Our costs for material were about 8 bucks ea. at that time. Eack took about 8 hours to finish and paint. You figure it our how much we made. Oh, and one other thing about 99% of the banks were sold to women. If your going to try and make money you must know your customer.

 

Very hard business to make money. Do it as a hobby and any money you make is a bonus and you will be happy.

 

Ben

[PawPawRay]

Have you looked at etsy.com ?

[Mimi]

Word of mouth does a really good job. I sell more things to co worker and friends then any one else. I also have a booth at a local flea market. I have gotten some new customer there also. I never though I was good enough until I started selling things. Good luck

Mimi

[longrifle]

I sell in a couple of antique stores here in my town. They sell my work on consignment.

I also sell in a couple of tourist places after the owners saw my stuff in the stores and

got in touch with me.

Rick