Month: March 2015

Pitching your products to a major retailer

Pitching your products to a major retailer

Opportunities exist for local artisans to pitch their products to major retailers. We have to keep our eyes open for those opportunities, and when we find them we need to prepare adequately for that meeting.

Do you take Credit Cards?

Do you take Credit Cards?

Its a great question that still comes up frequently.  And when someone is holding a large order of soap, or selecting a hand dyed silk scarf and they ask that question I used to cringe.  Yes, Cringe because at one point we did not take credit 

5 Tips for doing an art show

5 Tips for doing an art show

It was actually quite difficult to narrow down this post to 5 tips.  But these are the absolute basic and best things you should know and use:  Figure out your cash/credit card/payment system – That means establish a cash box, or bag with adequate change 

Display racks

Display racks

I am always in search of a new way to display my wire crochet brooches.  Because i use magnets for the pin backs I wanted to find something that allows me to use the magnets.  Last fall I found some rather charming powder coated metal 

Are you ever too old to follow your dreams?

Are you ever too old to follow your dreams?

Yes, i have been reading again… in fact it is such a great article that i am linking it to this page.  Enterpreneur.com just ran an article on an elderly woman who is following her dream, and working in silicone valley helping to make technology 

Croatia????

Croatia????

Recently one of the ladies in my office asked me to bring my silk in so she could look through them to purchase a gift.  Her daughter had traveled recently in europe and was wishing to send a package to her gracious hostess in Croatia 

Where do your eyes go?

Where do your eyes go?

    Science is incredible.  Our age of technology allows for some pretty darn amazing study and research.  One breakthrough technology being implemented in marketing and retain (among other fields) is that of eye tracking technology. Yes, following where the eyes go on a print