Selling Crafts

www.etsy.com That's a website like EBAY that only has handcrafted items. It's great, there is some really interesting things on there. Good Luck!

Have you looked into selling on ebay. I sell custom made doll clothes and it is going very well. Especially around the holidays I sold lots of clothes. Don't know of any better place to sell than on ebay.

I just signed up with Etsy also. There fees are low, but there are a lot of competition so make sure your jewelry are unique. Ebay is okay, but I did not have any success with them.

I agree with the previous poster, you can't meet the production demands of those craft companies, so they won't pay you. My sister once had a job embroidering baby bibs. Even though she did nice work, they refused all of them and wouldn't pay her for anything. Did I mention that she had to pay for all of her supplies to make the bibs? It's just a big ripoff. If you make your own crafts, this website it THE place to sell them: http://www.etsy.com/

I don't know of any sites like that but you can sell anything you want on ebay . My friend sells stuff on ebay and she says it is really easy and this way you get it out to a lot of different customers . She told me that you used to need a credit card to do this but you don't need one to sell on there now .

none of those companies pay anything, you can't meet their production demands. Your best bet is to sell your crafts on ebay or another plce like that. there are a few

Ebay and other online aucion sites are good. A few other ideas you could try if you are serious into making it into a home based business, are setting up a free blog or website and driving traffic to it to promote your lines. Markets (indoor and outdoor) are also good places to sell jewellery, as well as "renting a space" whether it be a table or whatever out the front of a store, or in the food court, of a shopping centre and selling your jewellery there. You can also try to turn it into a "party plan" based business, in which you host parties displaying your items, where a small group of interested people meet and order products- think Tupperware but for jewellery lol- This is a great way to sell and usually leads to multiple sales. It also means you make only a sample of each item you want to sell, then make them as tehy are ordered saving on wastage. Final idea, is to approach a shop and ask them if they want to take on your items as a "line" for a small commission of teh profits, say 10%. Or have them buy them off yout to sell, as tehy usually mark prices up anyway and would make a decent profit. Well these are just a few of my thoughts on how to start a jewellery home based business, hope it helps a little. Good Luck and just remember what I always say to anyone considering or starting a new business venture... No Limitations!

Something that helped me alot when I was at the stage you seem to be at with your prospective business, was to read the book "Making a Living in Crafts: Everything You Need to Know to Build Your Business" by Donald Clark. It talks about eBay versus brick and mortar versus shows versus art galleries. It also gives good tips on just about every other aspect of being a business person in the crafts. I've read trhough it three time snow and still haven't gathered everything it has to offer, I'm sure.

Well even i was going to suggest ebay itself, you can also try yahoo shopping and msn shopping though.

Nice idea I htink one should use his talent in abetter way that helps him plus his family here is a website hope you find it good www.atoncer.com goodluck!!

On etsy.com you can open your own shop and charge set prices (it's not an auction site). They have pretty cheap insertion fees (20 cents per item) I know eBay charges much more to list. They take a small percentage of the sale price, like eBay. The good thing abut Etsy is you have your own shop, which can be given a customized look, and your own url, so you can make business cards to hand to try to drive more traffic to your shop. Jewelry is a very competitive market these days, but if you market yourself well you can get lots of traffic to your shop.

Have you tried making a store? There's some store sites I made one for my friend http://elia-laranja.weblodge.net/