Making Money Online with Recycled Crafts

Continued from yesterday …

If you don’t have market validation, why not try a few things locally first? Let me just throw out a couple of ideas.

• Ask friends for their honest opinions of your crafts. Do you think someone would pay for this? How much would you suggest?

• Host a recycled craft party in your home or the house of a friend. Save up the supplies or ask people to contribute. Often guests are asked to pay a small fee to cover the supplies which must be purchased. Each guest goes home with something they’ve made.

• Offer to teach recycled craft classes at a local craft store or school event. Provide handouts with your copyright noted to be sure you retain rights to the idea with the idea of publishing online in the future.

I did a Google search for “recycled crafts” and was surprised not to find more quality sites in this field. The best example of a quality recycled craft site, in my opinion, is published by Craft Bits.

That may mean there is a niche waiting to be filled and this could be a very opportune time for you to start a recycled craft blog or website.

Do You Want Your Own Design Business or to Design for Someone Else?
There is a spectrum of ways designers can get their ideas online: from freelancing; to designing exclusively for one company; to retaining your copyrights while designing for someone else to publish; to being a one-woman show with your own blog or website showcasing and selling your ideas.

I wrote a pretty comprehensive answer to another reader who wanted to sell her plastic canvas designs online. You’ll find more information in Are You Trying to Get Your Original Designs Published?

Just substitute “recycled crafts” wherever I say “plastic canvas” ;-)

Good luck!
Eileen

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