General Business Resources
On this page you'll find useful resources for your business. If you find something you think should be on this page, please let us know through the contact page.
Arts Business Institute
The Arts Business Institute is an educational nonprofit that partners with regional art guilds, educational institutions and development organizations through the United States and Canada to produce business education workshops for artists in all stages of their careers.
BeadEnCounter
Organize your stash and accurately price your work with BeadEnCounter Beading and Craft Organization software.
BeadEnCounter works just as well for any craft, or for multimedia art assemblies. Enter beads, paper, wire, found objects, paint, fibers, or anything you use in your craft art! Enter finished work to produce catalogs or invoices, even if components are low or no-cost.
BeadEnCounter promotes organization with minimal work. Components of finished work are entered with a simple click from a list of entered inventory, and the cost is automatically calculated.
Bead Forum
This page gives some basic advice on how to set up your small business and create a professional appearance to the outside world.
Business Link
This is another useful source of information about setting up a business in the UK.
The Business of Craft
This useful Squidoo Lens is written by Elaine Luther. It's packed with information for anyone who wants to earn money from their craft.
Copyright for Artists
This copyright FAQ is useful for any artist worried about people copying their work or whether they can teach or sell something they've seen elsewhere.
Do you Protect your Work - Tonya Davidson
Useful article from Tonya Davidson's blog about copyright and how to protect your work from being copied.
Fast PDF
This is a great site for converting Word documents to PDF's. You can pay a small fee to have them without advertising but if you're happy to have a small watermark on the documents, you can get the PDF's free. This can be a considerable saving on buying the Adobe software if you only have a few documents to convert to PDF's.
Home Jewelry Business Success Tips
This is a great site for anyone who wants to start up a home jewellery business.It covers a huge range of topics. Well worth browsing.
Jeweler Profit
There are lots of useful resources for jewelers selling their work on this site. Sign up for the tips newsletter.
Jewelry Designer Manager
Business software for jewelry designers, artists and crafters. Helps you to track inventory and calculate prices.
Jewelry Sales Training
This website has some useful free articles about selling jewelry and promoting your store.
Moo
This is a UK based printing company who supply great business cards, postcards etc. The card stock is really good quality and they will provide short print runs. You can print lots of different images in the same business card pack so you can have a variety of different business cards, showing the range of your work. Although this company are UK based, they deliver anywhere in the world. Everything can be done online and their website is incredibly easy to use.
Simply Docs
This is a UK site providing standard documentation for businesses. There are some documents that are free and others that require you to buy a subscription.
Small Business Association
This is a useful resource for setting up and running a business in the US.
Society of North American Goldsmiths Professional Guidelines
The Professional Guidelines have been developed as a reference to help everyone in the arts and crafts community learn how to handle common but important situations that may arise. These documents are basic tools for improved and equitable business practices, leading toward more standard professional practices.
Startups
If you are just starting up a metal clay training or jewelry business or even thinking about it, this website will help you. It contains lots of useful information about starting up a business in the UK.
Tips on Getting into Juried Publications - Lora Hart
Lora Hart was one of the jurers for the 2010 PMC Annual. In this blog post she shares her observations about the entries she evaluated and gives some great tips about how to get noticed in the jurying process. Well worth reading if you're intending to submit images for publication.
