Scrapbooking,Business, DIY Scrapbooking as a Business
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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the article below to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included.----------------------------------------------------------Scrapbooking as a BusinessBy Stephen BucaroWhat ever happened to photo albums and scrapbooks? Theyhave combined into a rapidly growing craft called"scrapbooking". With scrapbooking, you don't just line upyour photos and memorabilia in the pages of a binder.Instead, you display your photos in an artistic andcreative way using decorative backgrounds, borders, frames,stickers, and whatever else piques your creative whimsey.This new combination of photo album and scrapbook is oftenreferred to as a "memory book". Scrapbooking is the fastestgrowing craft in the U.S., generating 1.4 billion dollarsin annual sales. This presents a tremendous opportunity foran individual with a passion for scrapbooking and anentrepreneurial spirit.First decide which area of the scrapbooking craft yourbusiness will serve:1. Scrapbooking supplies. Buy supplies wholesale from asource like Scrapbooking Factory Outlet sfodirect.com andsell them at retail, or better yet design and manufactureyour own scrapbooking supplies.2. Books and training materials. Become an affiliate ofamazon.com or barnesandnoble.com, or better yet write yourown book or develop your own website that providesscrapbooking instructions and tutorials.3. Develop Kits. Combine your scrapbooking ideas alongwith instructions and materials into kits.4. Publish a newsletter. Keep crafters informed about thelatest events, ideas and trends in scrapbooking. Thiscould be a paper or electronic newsletter.Why not choose to serve several, or all of these areas?Scrapbooking Business ExampleMelody Ross, an Eagle, Idaho mother of five had beenscrapbooking for a while, but she couldn't create thecharming prose that she saw in some scrapbooks. She beganwriting down any interesting prose that she came upon.Eventually Melody collected 400 quotations.In response to a suggestion by fellow students in ascrapbooking class, Melody ran an ad in a hobby magazineselling a booklet containing the quotations. She wassurprised to find her mailbox stuffed with over 2000 checksfor $8 each. Now all she had to do was actually create thebooklet!Today Melody Ross makes over $500.000.00 annually sellingher scrapbooking products at more than 4,000 stores acrossthe U.S. and at her website www.chatterbox.com.For more examples of successful scrapbooking businesses,visit Joan Miller's website Once Upon a Pagewww.onceuponapage.com and Caroline Meisel's websiteMy-Memories my-memories.net.Mrs. Grossman's www.mrsgrossmans.com is a very interestingstickers site.Scrapbooking is the fastest growing craft in the U.S., andit looks like this trend will continue for some time tocome. If you have a passion for scrapbooking and anentrepreneurial spirit, starting a business serving thecraft of scrapbooking might be your path to success.----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C)2002 Bucaro TecHelp. To learn how to maintainyour computer and use it more effectively to design a Website and make money on the Web visithttp://bucarotechelp.comTo subscribe to Bucaro TecHelp Newsletter Send a blankemail to mailto:bucarotechelp-subscribe@topica.----------------------------------------------------------
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