|
Woudn't it be a dream to profit from your love of scrapbooking?
Here are four of the most popular ways to earn money from your
scrapbooking hobby:
1. Become a Scrapbook Consultant Research the variety of direct
sales scrapbooking companies that allow you to earn a commission
on products that you sell at scrapbooking classes, crops, and
other events. Some such direct sales companies have very
flexible provisions that could even allow you to sign up just to
get the consultant discount on your own supplies - or the
supplies you use in custom scrapbooks that you make for others.
2. Teach Scrapbooking Locally Offer to teach at scrapbooking
stores, or community education centers - or work with a direct
sales company to offer classes in Card making, Mini Albums,
Scrapbooking 101, Rubber Stamping, About Me Scrapbooking, and
more. Also consider offering classes that revolve around special
events in people's lives. For example, you can help people plan
baby showers and wedding showers in which guests come together
to learn about scrapbooking and make a treasured memento in the
process. This is an amazing way to make valuable difference in
people's lives and relationships.
3. Create Custom Scrapbooks For Others Some companies are
starting to offer comprehensive kits that make this process much
easier, with everything you need to create albums for others
along various themes. You can charge by the page or by the hour.
Sue DiFranco of Fun Facts Publishing
(http://www.funfactspublishing.com) has published an informative
book on this topic, titled "Make Money Making Scrapbooks for
Others," which is particularly helpful when trying to determine
how to price your work. Check out this yahoogroup for more
information on this option, as well:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scrapping4Others.
4. Set up a Scrapbooking Store Online Whether you stock your own
products or become an affiliate of an existing online
scrapbooking store, this is a fun way to build a career in
scrapbooking, no matter where you live - though the overhead on
starting your own store can be high. You may want to investigate
the ecommerce capabilities and policies of various direct sales
scrapbooking companies, as well, to reduce your overhead still
further.
A scrapbooking business is one of the most rewarding
opportunities as it allows you to help people in your community
to capture and celebrate life. Enjoy discovering the
opportunities for making a scrapbooking business work for you!
About the author:
Copyright 2006 Susie Cortright About the Author- Susie Cortright
is the founder of Momscape's Scrapbooking Playground at
http://www.momscape.com/scrapbooking and a Team Captain for a
large group of scrapbooking instructors. Find out about the
opportunity she chose here: http://www.momscape.com/business.htm
. (This article can also be found here
|
