The target market for your crafts
Knowing your target marketing is important if you want to be successful selling your crafts. What is the target market? It’s the group of buyers you want to sell your products to. That group can be defined any way you wish : by age, lifestyle, habits and any other distinctive trait you may think of.
Since you can’t be everything to everyone, you have to choose so you can create a better product. That doesn’t mean that you can’t sell your crafts to other people. If you know who you are selling to, you will have a better focus on how to sell it to them.
That way, you can go and find buyers where they are. If you’re selling crafts for babies, for example, find the moms. Where do they hang out online and which stores are they buying stuff from? It makes a lot more sense to try and reach the right people that trying to sell your crafts to everyone.
This will also allow you to create better crafts for your buyers. You can adapt to their needs and to the price they expect to pay. Crafts targeted at teens will most likely have a lower price and use cheaper supplies than crafts targeting office executives. But you need to know who you’re selling to so you can decide that.
Take a few minutes today to think about who you’re selling to, you won’t regret it.
Happy craft selling,
Cindy
Suggested Reading:
How to Sell What You Make: The Business of Marketing Crafts, Revised and Updated (How-To Guides)Updated edition of a best seller. Strategies for selling at shops and shows and advice on pricing, exhibiting, and bookkeeping.
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