The room is packed and many bloggers are drooling over the presence of Amy Sedaris. The panel: Cathy Cano Murillo, Kirsten Roach, Natalie Zee Drieu, and Amy Sedaris.
Blogger Challenge - Do a googly-eye photo in honor of Amy and post it on your blog when you get home.
how has the online community changed crafts?
- Sub-culture of crafting. more appreciation for extreme and diverse crafting
- Accountability to chart progress
- Community to learn new techniques, meet new crafters
how do you price your finished goods?
- Charge for your talent, not for your materials
- Go into detail for all the materials - call out those aspects when you market the product
- Include packaging
- Take into account everything that it takes to make
how do you convey the quality online?
- Have a compelling story
- Show the creative process making it
- Link to the process posts so that a buyer can see the effort involved
how do you protect your work?
- copyright your patterns and illustrations
- doesnt have to be a business
- do a promo on your blog for work that inspired you but still make it your own
- check out creativecomments.org for copyright-like guidelines for your crafting
