Kari Chapin is the author of Grow Your Handmade Business. Kari brings to the table a background in marketing, publicity and a homegrown enthusiasm for crafts and social networking. Besides writing books, Kari offers creative business e-courses and personal coaching at www.karichapin.com.
Kari wrote this book by incorporating 26 crafters advice and expertise from many different crafting arts. The book is a one-stop-shopping for inspiration, business basics, marketing and online ‘know-how’. The author gives advice from ground up that will get the individual from idea, to start up; right through to establishing and keeping market-current a successful craft business. I found this book very informative. It also helps that it’s not from just one person’s experience or perspective, but many different people with many points of view. These people have great insight and ideas on all sorts of aspects of business – no matter what your particular product may be. This book is chock full of inspiration and sound business sense that will have your home based craft business up and running. You can do as much or as little as you like; the pace is entirely up to you. No matter what stage the crafter may find themselves, this book would fit the bill. Happy crafting!