When people think of selling hand-crafted items, they don't often think that making a good living is possible.

Their main reasoning is that you're trading time for money and hand-crafted goods generally take more hours to create than you can get paid for.

And that's true, except that's not how the best stores operate.

This person generates nearly a million dollars per year through her Etsy store, https://www.fastcompany.com/3042352/how-one-knitter-makes-almost-1-million-a-year-on-etsy.

How does she do that?

Well, she has some people working for her. 

She sells some entirely hand-crafted goods plus some slightly altered goods and other essentially retail products.

The hand-crafted goods bring in the visitors and customers, but the other products bring in profits.

She is one very clever lady.

How can you replicate that type of success?

It depends on if you want that or would be satisfied with a smaller store, but the principles are the same.

Make good products and charge a fair price for them.

Present them professionally.

Give excellent customer service.

Add other products that would be attractive to the same audience.

I would add one other thing to this list because it would make steady sales.

Offer the tools, components and training for your visitors to make the same products as you are selling.

People who look for hand-crafted items often want to make them as well.

Help them out.
 

Regards,
Brent.

P.S.  What do you do if you don't consider yourself to be the crafty type?

Create a shop that sells for people who create but don't know how or where to sell..

You'll find many examples of these types of shops all over the world.

There is no reason you cannot do precisely the same online.

You could even source the items from your local area.

All you need to do is go into any of your local outlets for crafted items, check out the artist's name, and contact them.

Don't be greedy in your commission. 

Think of the customer.

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