How to Start a Quilting Business
From the category archives:
Reader Question: I’ve stalled a little bit with starting my own quilting business…. It starts to get hard to think of all the things that need to be done, and it seems very overwhelming and intimidating not to mention expensive.
I want to have a nice little “family” business to expand on my love of quilting. [...]
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Reader Question: I have always loved quilting, and I am thinking about trying to earn money through quilting. When I go into quilt shops, they tell me there is no money in quilting, and that it is very expensive to get started. To be honest, I just don’t know where to start.
Answer:
Quilting is a wonderful [...]
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Reader Question: I have just purchased a quilting machine. I want to make money with it ,of course. Should I focus more on making quilts to sell or quilting for other people. I have sold quilts in the past but nothing serious.
Answer:
There are more people quilting than there are people buying quilts. It seems most [...]
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Reader Question: What is the best way to display the quilt to take pictures for on a web site?
Answer: I asked a friend of mine who is a photographer and he suggested the following points for photographing a quilt:
1) hang the quilt on a wall so that it is very flat
2) is possible, find a [...]
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Reader Question: How would you advertise for your quilting business when professional advertising is so expensive?
Answer: I agree, traditional advertising in print media, radio, tv, etc can be very expensive.
I believe the way of the future for both advertising and conducting business is online. People don’t use the yellow pages anymore, they use google.
As such, [...]
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I received a great question from Karen about how to best handle when a competitor goes out of business. Here’s the question:
Chuck,
The nearest competitor to us closed on Monday. Is there any way we can capitalize on her closing without appearing as over zealous or gloating . How or what should we advertise to capitalize [...]
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I’m answering my first question from the Quilting Business community today, and it comes all the way from Israel. Here’s the question:
Hi,
I am an about-to-be unemployed high-tech writer who has been quilting 15 years. I have loads of experience with many quilting techniques that I have learned over the years. I enjoy wallhangings and quicker [...]
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