Hello, creative friend! Are you a motivated, skilled and disciplined crafter who is considering the possibility of starting a craft business?

Perhaps you make trendy jewelry that attracts compliments not just from your friends, but also from strangers on the street. You’re thinking maybe you could be selling your jewelry. Well, of course you can do that!

Maybe you knit sophisticated hats, and your social media followers often comment to ask where you got your pattern. You could earn money selling your own knitting patterns, or other people’s.

Maybe you crochet cozy, colorful blankets, and people who visit your home often express interest in learning how to make their own projects like yours. You could get paid to teach those skills to others.

Maybe you’re a whiz with power tools, and you’re wondering whether you could earn money by upcycling, refinishing or painting furniture. The answer: Yep! You definitely could.

Maybe you have no idea how to design or make anything, but you have a compelling reason to want to learn how to start a home-based business that earns you income. For example, if you have young children at home, you might be searching for a work-at-home situation that enables you to earn money while you take care of your kids. A craft business is a workable idea for a stay-at-home parent who needs to generate a part-time income while also making parenting their #1 priority.

If any of the above scenarios resonates with you, I am delighted that you found your way here. Welcome to Crafterprise.com! This website is dedicated to helping you learn how to earn an income (and possibly even a full-time living) doing the craft(s) you love most.

I’m Amy Solovay. I help entrepreneurs in the crafting and DIY niches learn how to create profitable businesses. If you are hoping to start a profitable craft-focused business (let’s call it a “Crafterprise,”) I’m ideally situated to help you accomplish that goal.

That’s because I’ve held high-level jobs working at successful businesses in every industry where craft-focused businesses have the best chances at flourishing; I’ve also built my own successful craft-focused business, making every possible mistake a person could make along the way.

As a result of these experiences, I can give you step-by-step instructions for how to do the top-priority things successful businesses are doing. I can also help you avoid the likeliest pitfalls you’ll encounter as a small business owner in any of the major industries where Crafterprises thrive.

It is essential for you to understand these things if you hope to compete in today’s marketplace. But today’s marketplace and tomorrow’s are two completely, totally, MASSIVELY different things. So the above-mentioned information won’t actually be enough to help you understand what you will also need to do to ensure that your craft-focused business will thrive in the future.

Past business success is not a predictor of future success because technological and economic changes are about to create total upheaval.

If you do not understand these technological and economic shifts, you are vulnerable to being blindsided by them.

Many things that used to be true are not going to be true for much longer. The tide is already turning, and so I feel a sense of urgency about helping you wrap your head around exactly what is about to happen.

Arguably, the most important thing I can give you is a clear understanding of what’s about to happen next and what you need to do to a) protect yourself and those you love from great harm, and b) flourish through the cataclysmic changes that are at hand.

Many “truths” you took for granted are about to change. The best part about this: If you’re a crafter creating real things that real people in the real world need, your star is now rising.

I believe that a subset of small business owners in the crafting and DIY niches will be exceptionally well positioned to thrive in the future. If you’re starting a craft-focused business from scratch, my goal is to help you understand what you need to do NOW to both succeed in the current marketplace and build a business that can withstand the coming technological and economic turbulence.

There are also craft-based business niches that are likely to fail in the future, even if they have been wildly successful in the recent past. If you’re new to building a craft-focused business, I want to help you understand what these doomed businesses have in common so that you can avoid wasting your precious time building a business in a soon-to-be-obsolete niche.

The Top 9 Industries Where Craft Businesses Flourish Right Now:

Here are three of the most important things you need to know to find the right craft business idea for YOU and succeed with building a business that reliably earns you income under current conditions:

• You’ll first need to understand where, in the overall map of major industries, craft-focused businesses could potentially fit.
• You’ll also need a clear picture of how you might really, truly, realistically be able to earn money from your crafts in each of these industries.
• You have the best possible chance for earning a comfortable living at your craft business if you can build your business in a niche where two or more of these industries intersect.

Craft-focused businesses (let’s call them “Crafterprises”!) can successfully be built in multiple ways. To succeed at building your own crafterprise, you’ll first need to understand where, in the overall map of major industries, craft-focused businesses could potentially fit. You’ll also need a clear picture of how you might actually earn money from your crafts in each of these industries.

Once you understand all the above, you’ll have a big-picture overview of what all your possible options are for starting your own craft-focused business. Then you’re in a position to objectively evaluate which of these options you think would be best-suited for your development given your unique interests, talents, skills, life experiences and situation.

You could build a Crafterprise in any of the following industries:

• Education
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Media and publishing
• Advertising and marketing
• Services
• Leisure and hospitality
• Health and wellness
• Agriculture

In some cases, it is possible to build a totally viable Crafterprise exclusively in one of these industries. However, it is more typical for successful Crafterprises to be positioned at the intersection of two or more of these industries. So let’s take a closer look at each of these industries and talk about where a craft-focused business could potentially fit.

To be continued!