How to sell knitted items

A talented needlewoman, who know how to knit a beautiful and quality things, sooner or later begin to consider to turn your hobby into a small home business. But not everyone knows how to do it. Before some of the masters, the question arises: how to implement knitted things? There are several ways to sell handmade products.

You will need

Yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, knitting magazines, computer with Internet, camera, personal business cards.

Instruction

First and foremost, you need to do is to determine what you will offer your potential buyer. Not miserable grey knit sweater, a La "goodbye youth". Browse through fashion magazines (in all women's magazines are the fashion trend in the new season). Find Internet sites dedicated to new fashion trends. Let's see what offer well-known designers. Learn all this and get creating.

Tie several models. But first, take high quality photos. This does not need to buy a professional camera, you can do the usual "soap box". The main thing – do not photograph your work in normal home interior. Pick a beautiful background. Aim the right light. Make several photos from different angles, with flash and without it. View the pictures by craftswomen who sell their works online. Look for sites that explain how to properly take pictures of Handicrafts

Here are your pictures ready. Well, if you have the skills to work with photo editing – adjust image.Make two directories with your work. One electronically. Them you will use to embed its products online. The second in the form of an album. It will be useful to you if you decide to sell your creations through stores.

Start to sell. Most effective aide in sales of handmade products is the Internet. It offers a lot of possibilities. Sign up on the discussion forums. Typically, they have a section "Announcements". Create your own theme in this section. Well to advertise on General-themed, women's forums, social networks and communities. Sign up on sites that include the same masters. Here are some of them:
http://c-y-n-g-y-k.livejournal.com
http://handmade-bazar.ru/
http://cmapywka.ru/
http://www.drugie-veshi.ru/
http://e-au.ru/
http://handmade-ru.livejournal.com
http://www.livemaster.ru/
http://handhand.ru/
http://magazin-avtorskih-rabot.ru/

Every city has shops and stores that sell products for needlework, including yarn. Many of them are willing to take their handmade work for sale. Also many shops of goods for children or products for animals willingly agree to work with private masters (if you knit for children or animals).Take your work or the directory you made in the form of a photo album, go to these shops and offer cooperation with you. Please note only the fact that working with such shops, you will not get an absolute guarantee the sale of your products.

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