How to Set up a Craft Business
A beginner-level course covering pricing, selling platforms, promotion and customer service for craft businesses.
About this course
The course examines how craft work can be developed and presented in a professional selling context. Topics include selecting platforms for reaching a targeted audience, calculating costs and mark-ups, promoting work, providing customer service, and displaying and packaging products. Teaching combines course discussion with practical exercises based on real-life selling situations. Learners will also hear from designer-makers about establishing their practices and the techniques and methods they use.
What you'll learn
- Identify platforms for selling craft work to a targeted audience
- Calculate prices using costs and mark-ups
- Apply approaches to customer service when selling art
- Plan effective ways to promote craft work
- Develop suitable approaches to displaying and packaging products
Is this course right for you?
The course is intended for beginner-level learners seeking to consider their craft work in a professional context and explore ways to sell it. Participation includes practical exercises and learning from examples of designer-makers’ practices.
- Includes exercises based on real-life selling situations
- Features examples from practising designer-makers
Where this course runs
South Thames Colleges Group
Adult education at Merton, Kingston, Wandsworth, Tooting and Carshalton
9 busines courses on Learn.LondonUpcoming classes
1 class
Selected date
Tue 6 Jul 2027
12:00 – 15:00 • 2 weeks
£30
Merton College, Morden
Business team
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