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The Crafts Business Answer Book

by Barbara Brabec

A vital reference for both beginners and "seasoned pros,"  The Crafts Business Answer Book will give you quick and reliable information whenever you are:

Starting a new business or exploring unknown territory

Trying to be a better business manager

Striving to improve marketing techniques

Diversifying into new fields of endeavor

Trying to solve a new problem

Wondering what others are doing.

 Although this book is specifically addressed to artists and craftspeople, its special information on taxes, laws and regulations, legal issues, financial topics and insurance will also be invaluable to designers, inventors, teachers, writers, desktop publishers, mail order businesses and others who work at home.

The financial and legal side of your homebased business is of paramount importance to everything you do. This comprehensive volume presents, in handy A-to-Z order, nearly 300 topics related to the startup, management and marketing of a homebased art- or craft-related business under the main headings of:

If you've read other books by Barbara, you know she has a knack for presenting complex subject matter in an easy-to-understand style while making her books fun to read as well. Although The Crafts Business Answer Book is definitely encyclopedic in scope, it's also the kind of book you can curl up with over a cup of coffee or tea. In addition to dozens of special TIPS scattered throughout the book, you'll find Barbara's personal answers to 158 specific questions crafters have often asked her. 

The Crafts Business Answer Book also includes 34 short "special interest" articles:

·         Barbara's Proven System for Paying Bills  and Keeping Tax Records

·         The Cabbage Patch Kids® Story

·         Commercial Use of Home Sewing Machines

·         Common Law Trademarks

·         Computer and Software Buying Tips

·         Coping With Copycats

·         Copyrights: Registering a Collection of Work

·         Deadlines Were Made to Be Broken

·         Designer Paranoia

·         Fax Installation Tips

·         How One Manufacturer Solved Her Independent Contractor Problem

·         How SCORE Helped One Craft Business

·         How to Check Someone's Credit

·         How to Cut Printing Costs

·         How to Keep Inventory Records

·         A Humorous Tax Audit

·         Is Your Insurance an All-Risk Policy

·         Licensing Tips for Small Manufacturers

·         A Lost Mail Horror Story

·         Money-Saving Postal Tips

·         Pricing Formulas for Handcraft Sellers

·         A Sales Rep Agreement

·         Scams on the Internet

·         Selling to Catalog Houses

·         A Solution to the Partnership Checkbook Problem

·         Solving Cash Flow Problems

·         State and City Abbreviations

·         Three Partnership Tips

·         Using Designer Fabrics-One Manufacturer's Experience

·         What to Say on a Hang Tag

·         When You Have Evidence of Fraud

·         Where to Find Copyright-Free Designs & Motifs

·         You Can Publish Your Own Book

As always, Barbara has included a helpful RESOURCE CHAPTER of crafts business books and periodicals, organizations, government agencies, suppliers and publishers. Special indexes make it easy to find needed information in a hurry.

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