Turn craft into your income

How is it possible to make a living from a craft? Find out by following the Small Business Connect series “Crafting Your Business” over the next nine editions, starting with your product idea.

  • Product idea
  • Prototyping & sampling
  • Materials
  • Production
  • Packaging & packing
  • Marketing
  • Selling
  • Distribution
  • Feedback

To get started or expand your business you need to have a skill or an idea for a business or product. But more important than this, you must have motivation for doing something with your idea.

If you want to create a successful craft business, you need to understand that every product, involves a journey. The Crafting Your Business series is based on the e-book, Growing Your Creative Business – a guide for craft producers, designers and other creatives which was commissioned by the Department of Arts and Culture and developed in partnership with the Cape Craft and Design Institute (CCDI)

 

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Profit from your passion

Starting off with a strong product idea

 

Cape Craft and Design Institute, crafting your business, Department of Arts and Culture

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