The Stitchers Library
Sandra Monley
Co-ordinator, Information and Learning
Brisbane City Council Libraries
Creative women + digital skills training
Crafters sell their work online
establishing a home based,
micro-business.
Digital
literacy
Economic
development
Brisbane
crafters
Etsy social media
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Brisbane markets
From the collection…
Ambition!
• “I want to sell my craft”.
• “I want to make money from selling my craft”.
• “I want to set up a small home based business”.
Felt rabbits from Hut up Berlin
The handmade
market:
how to sell your
craft online
Topics
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Getting started with market research online
Sourcing supplies online
Connecting with other crafters online
Photographing products for the web
Setting up an online shop
Social networking and your business
Keeping statistics with easy online apps.
Map and hatch:
business
planning for
crafters
Map & Hatch: Business Planning for Crafters
This workshop will teach you the process of mapping out your
hobby to turn it into a micro business. Participants will learn to
apply business planning tools and capture their ideas to hatch
their creative goals giving them a plan to make their craft/hobby
into a successful business venture. Presented by Sally Flynn from
Flight Industries.
Map and
Hatch
intensive
Life-centred skills
Marta and Maciek first market
stall Friday 22 February, 2013