Filed under: session | Tags: buy handmade, calculation, cost, discount, formula, price, retail, wholesale
Always a sticking point with me – pricing and cost – but it has to be cracked if I want to make money.
Good to have a ‘formula’ from yesterday’s session to work with, it’s a starting pint at least – if nobody is willing to pay what comes out at the end then I’m going to have to rethink a few things.
I’m a bit confused about the different levels of pricing – wholesale, discount, retail. I’ll pick this up with Debbie, my mentor later in the week, she is really good at this sort of thing.
A good place to check out the prices of the competition (and sign up when i have made my stock):
BUY HANDMADE
Filed under: session | Tags: galleries, links, local, marketing, report, support, trade fair
I am really getting into these sessions that support the more business minded members of the group. It would be helpful to have some craft orientated lecturers to back up the ‘how to’ sessions though, as it remains more theoretical without a live example of someone who has been there and done these things. By the time I see my mentor, I’m onto something else that is more pressing for the time we have.
Some helpful links picked up from the marketing session that are of particular interest to me:
HARDING HOUSE GALLERY – Lincoln
BCTF – British Craft Trade Fair
CRAFTSPACE – Birmingham
HARLEY GALLERY – Welbeck
MAKING IT TO MARKET – developing the market for contemporary craft, an Arts Council report
EREWASH PARTNERSHIP – local economic development and regeneration
