Amazon.com Review
Presenting a fairly comprehensive overview of both traditional and nontraditional venues, this guide offers a multitude of marketing ideas for the established professional crafter and the accomplished amateur alike. Solid information--on everything from setting up a business plan and determining pricing, to promoting your work and exploring a broad range of markets--complements extensive state-by-state listings of a wide variety of options, not just craft shops and fairs, but decorators' offices, museum and gallery shops, department stores, specialty retailers, catalog sales, even television and online shopping sites, and many more, complete with names, addresses, and phone/fax numbers.
Review
The Business Of Crafts is a superb business guide and directory of current craft markets including art in public and corporate spaces, boutiques and craft shops, buying officers, department stores, chains, speciality retailers, catalogs and special magazines, embassies and congressional offices, museum gift shops and other cultural and nonprofit stores, national parks, government programs, cooperatives, retail fairs and street markets, socially responsible business and, alternative trade organizations, specialized art galleries, tv and on-line shopping sites, wholesalers, sales representatives, export agents, wholesale trade shows, and trade publications. The Business Of Crafts is a "must" for anyone seeking to make their livelihood from the making and marketing of crafts. -- Midwest Book Review
