How to Make and Sell Hand Made Products in Leisure Time
How to Make and Sell Hand Made Products in Leisure Time
Hand made is one of the most effective descriptors to help emphasize the quality and uniqueness of a product.It’s important to work out all of the potential kinks before marketing a product, this includes packaging and shipping. Your packaging should compliment your product, protect it and be durable enough for retail shelves. The reality is if you don’t do these things it can kill your product right out of the gate.
Tips To Make and Sell Hand Made Products
- Get your product in front of as many people as possible and offer a variety of options within your specific line of products
- Find a team of people who love your product, offer them an attractive monetary incentive and have them sell at local events that relate to your product and target market.
- Develop the handmade work within the context of trends that are happening now is important.
- The essence of handmade work is that it delights the buyer in a way that manufactured wares never will.
- Make sure the work is not boring and completely derivative.
- Take plenty of good, honest pictures. The pictures set the expectation that the customer has for the product that will show up in the mail.
- Bring your product to people – let them touch it, hold it, feel the weight and texture that separates it from the mass-production we have all grown accustomed to.
- Get the product out in the marketplace as much as you can, which means a combination of internal promotion, public relations and advertising.
The best way to sell a handmade or one of a kind product is by first yielding the power of social media, such as Facebook, Google + and twitter but do not push it, the other important thing to do is target those who really need this product and not try to get the whole world to like it, and finally be patient and focused.
