The hot trend in Silhouette and Cricut crafting right now seems to be personalizing reusable Starbucks cups bought in store for $1. But, is it legal? Does it infringe on the Starbucks company trademark? Like most trademark or copyright infringements, the answer isn’t cut and dry. In my quest to get an answer, I reached …
Christine Schinagl, Cutting for Business
Once you start selling your handmade Silhouette Cameo crafts, other crafters (or new crafters) will eventually stumble onto your page and one might ask you where you got your supplies for a certain project. Similarly, maybe you’ll get a customer that wants to start their own cutting business and they ask you – either publicly …
As a seller, there is a thin line between outright copying someone else’s design and drawing inspiration from it. If you’ve starting selling your handmade Silhouette Cameo or Cricut Explore projects online, a customer will eventually send you a picture of something they found online and want you to recreate it. Should you do it? In my …
Some crafters don’t like to ship their handmade Silhouette or Cricut crafts to their customers and offer local pickups instead. The most important thing to remember if you are doing customer meet and greets to sell your crafts is SAFETY. 7 Local Pick Up Tips for Craft Business Owners 1) Offer a set day and …
Did you know that you don’t have to go to the post office to ship your handmade products? Yes, you are too busy for that! Instead, you can ship packages from home by printing shipping labels online. If you are selling through an online marketplace, you can usually print postage from your order screen. If …
In my last post, I shared a tutorial on how to use Silhouette Studio to create product mockups to help stock your store. Product mockups can also be used when you create custom items for your customers. Sometimes as crafters, it is difficult to get our ideas across to non-crafters. The next time you are …
Successful online stores have a wide variety of items available for customers to purchase. Fellow crafters understand that supplies are expensive, and making a sample of each color you have available or each design can be impossible. The solution is to do a mockup, which is basically showing a customer what the completed item will …
Wondering about a good place to sell your handmade crafts? Consider Facebook. Facebook is the largest social media network in the world, with nearly two billion people using the network (as of 2022). Let’s take a look at how to sell crafts on Facebook. How to Sell Crafts on Facebook Why You Need a Facebook …
Ready to get your new business out to the world? A great place to start is Facebook. It is against Facebook’s terms and conditions to use your personal account to represent something other than yourself. Instead, you’ll need to create a Facebook Page. It’s important to note that you must have a personal Facebook account …