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Digital Scrapbooking Business – You Need To Know Your S4H And S4O!
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Digital Scrapbooking Business – You Need To Know Your S4H And S4O!
By: Frank English
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Want to build your own digital scrapbooking business? I’ve got lots more free professional information and a wealth of scrapbook resources at Digital Scrapbooking Business where you can also download a valuable free report from well known scrapbooking teacher Dawn Stegall. If you’re thinking about making money from scrapbooking you don’t want to ignore help like this!
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A digital scrapbooking business requires little investment, is relatively easy to learn and has huge income potential. The only area where things get a little tricky and where you need to be just a little bit cautious is when you’re using other people’s digital scrapbook templates or supplies because this is where you run into those dreaded copyright issues.
You might think you’ll design all your digital scrapbook layouts and embellishments yourself. OK, but there are already thousands of page layouts, digital scrapbook papers, you name it, available from a wide range of suppliers for just a couple of dollars. You might like designing, I certainly do, but often you’ve got to ask yourself if it’s worth the time to create your own with such a wealth of supplies available?
However, you do have to be just a little bit careful. Lots of online scrapbook stores offer digital scrapbook freebies as samples to entice you to buy. Nothing wrong with that, it’s nice to see the quality of work before you commit. Be careful about using these freebies in anything but personal scrapbooks though.
Sometimes they’ll say that they are OK for commercial use but this is rare. If you want to use them for your digital scrapbooking business, and sell the completed scrapbook, you usually have to pay. At just a couple of bucks a time, why not? You can make dozens of times your money back so why not support the industry you are working in?
This is where we come to those strange letters. What exactly do S4H and S4O mean?
Well they’re pretty similar really. S4H is “scrap 4 hire” and S4O is “scrapping for others” (or scrapbooking for others), both of which essentially mean whether you’re getting paid or not you’re using the digital scrapbook supplies to make scrapbooks for other people.
Occasionally they’ll just make it easy on you and say that you can use the layouts or templates to make and sell digital scrapbooks – but every business likes it’s little codes and acronyms, doesn’t it!
The real point here is that your digital scrapbook business will take a bit of time and effort to build a reputation and arguments over copyright can do you no end of damage. The internet might seem an endless place but once the gossip starts in any particular industry it can spread quickly. Your valuable reputation can be tarnished fast, so when you buy your digital scrapbook supplies make sure you can use them as you want. If it’s not clear, just ask.
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Starting a Successful Creative Scrapbooking Business, Part III
By: Michele Cardello
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Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a creative scrapbooking supplies company also offering contemporary picture frames, in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
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Every scrapbook is unique and inviting; as a creative scrapbooking professional, your marketing should be as eye-catching and irresistible as your creations. Even if you have only a few hundred dollars to spend, you can absolutely woo clientele using grassroots methods to showcase your creative scrapbooking acumen.
Educate Others in the Art Form of Creative Scrapbooking
One of the fastest ways to turn yourself from an unknown scrapbooker into a creative scrapbooking “expert” is to teach a class on the art of creating a fabulous, memorable scrapbook.
Though you might initially be wary that if you tell others your creative scrapbooking “secrets”, they won’t use your creative scrapbooking business, that usually doesn’t happen. Instead, what occurs is that your students see you as a professional in the arena of scrapbook design and development. Thus, when they want an important scrapbook (e.g., for their daughter’s Bar Mitzvah or husband’s retirement celebration), they will immediately think of you. After all, they might enjoy creative scrapbooking, but they don’t necessarily feel confident enough to construct a special scrapbook on their own.
You can work with many community centers, schools, college campuses, and libraries to offer your creative scrapbooking courses. Expect to spend a bit of money on advertising, room rental (though you can often snag a free space if you’re a start-up), and creative scrapbooking paraphernalia, though it’s still much less of an investment than if you paid for a full page, 4-color ad in the Sunday paper.
Write About Scrapbooking
Another way to become an instant creative scrapbooking “guru” is to write articles or tips about creative scrapbooking. Sometimes, smaller community papers will print such items as “filler” for their circulars. Alternately, if a local sewing center or arts and crafts store offers a newsletter to patrons, you might be able to become a “guest columnist.” (Or perhaps you can offer to write your own “creative scrapbooking newsletter” gratis if they agree to pass it out to consumers.)
Will you receive a ton of creative scrapbooking business from this type of subtle “marketing”? Probably not. But you will be building your reputation as your area’s premier creative scrapbooking authority. You will also be able to tell prospective customers that you’ve published items on the topic of creative scrapbooking, always an impressive credential to tout (and a resume booster as well.)
Start a Scrapbooking Blog and/or Web site
In today’s cyber society, blogs and Web sites are fairly inexpensive, so there’s no reason not to get online and start talking about your creative scrapbooking know-how and burgeoning creative scrapbooking company.
For example, you could quickly set up a blog 100% devoted to the tricks of the creative scrapbooking trade in an effort to attract persons from around the world to your site. Though most of them won’t become clients, you stand to gain instant exposure. And who knows? The family down the street may wind up stopping by your creative scrapbooking Web site and hiring you to redo their three sons’ baby books!
Never Stop Selling Yourself or Your Scrapbooking Abilities!
It’s critical that you never stop selling yourself and your creative scrapbooking business if you are serious about succeeding in this infant industry with huge profit potential.
This may mean stepping out of your “comfort zone” and becoming a master at self-promotion. If you have an innate fear of networking, it’s time to overcome your worries and learn how to shake some hands. Remember that you won’t be the first entrepreneur who took a plunge into the unknown.
To become a better press generator on behalf of your creative scrapbooking business, you’ll have to force yourself to try again and again. However, if the process becomes achingly difficult and hampers your desire to scrapbook, it may be time to hire someone to promote your business on your behalf. Yes, this is a “last ditch” measure, but if it keeps your dream alive, it’s worth the cost to bring on a partner who isn’t afraid of a good sales pitch. (And many individuals will work with start-ups on a commission basis, which is terrific news for your budget!)
A Final Note about Ethics and Your Scrapbooking Venture
Though it’s imperative that you keep up standards and operate ethically and legally (the tax man will cometh whether you like it or not!), that doesn’t mean you can’t be innovative. Constantly seek out ways to differentiate yourself from other scrapbook artists and allow yourself to grow personally and professionally.
Love your work, and that positive attitude mingled with creative scrapbooking talent will draw customer inquiries and have you wondering why you didn’t begin your creative scrapbooking company sooner.
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One of the best Thanksgiving scrapbook page ideas involves thankfulness, and an excellent time for the scrapper to show what he or she is most thankful for. It is no surprise that there are several forms of Thanksgiving scrapbook page ideas just for this one theme.
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Scrapbooking Ideas for Thanksgiving: Timeless Traditions
Whenever most think of scrapbooking ideas for Thanksgiving, most think of a painting from Norman Rockwell called Freedom From Want, which depicts a motherly figure bringing out turkey to a large family.
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Holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa are obvious choices for holiday scrapbooking ideas, but difficult to begin. However, with a little creativity, a scrapper can have some very unique holiday scrapbooking ideas.
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Christmas Scrapbooking Ideas and Tradition
Most Christmas scrapbooking ideas involve some sort of observance of tradition, so it is important for the scrapper to rediscover the traditions of his or her own family and create the page from there.
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Christmas Scrapbooking: the Mini-album
Some of the best Christmas scrapbooking involves creativity mixed with tradition, so why not put that effort into a mini-album. A mini-album can double as a card or gift, and shows your Christmas scrapbooking skills.
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Scrapbooking your Holiday Traditions
Holiday traditions are followed in every culture around the world. What better way to chronicle them than to saver the memories in a holiday scrapbook that can easily be passed down from one generation to the next.
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Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a creative scrapbooking supplies company also offering contemporary picture frames, in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
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How to Start your Own Scrapbooking Business – Useful Info
Starting Your Own scrapbooking business…Many people are cashing in on the scrapbooking hobby by starting their own scrapbooking businesses. There are many ways to make money if you love scrapbooking. The appeal of starting a scrapbooking business is easy to see.
There are lots of ways out there to start a scrapbooking business. A common misunderstanding is that the only way is to open a store – online or high street. There are in fact a lot more ways than this! Here are seven other ways…
Paper piecing on Ebay. This is a highly profitable way to make money by using your scrapbooking expertise and using the global marketplace that is e-Bay to your advantage! What do I do? You create beautiful scrapbook pages that people can buy and use to put in their own photo’s! You can make a lot of money doing this as people will pay for things that make their life easier! It’s a great avenue for you to go down with your scrapbooking business. Take pictures of the pieces you want to sell – get them on Ebay and sell, sell, sell!
Direct sales consultant. First of all, you should sign up with a large home party company in order to get stock at discounted prices. Do some research first though or you may end up with a company whose products your not comfortable using or more importantly selling. Take into consideration the membership fees.
Scrapbook instructor. Now remember, you’ll have to be, or at least be able to pass yourself off as an expert before you consider this option! Showing others how they can turn their memories into beautiful arrangements is very lucrative, if done well! There are loads of people who would jump at the chance to learn scrapbooking!
Product designer. Ever wonder where a particular product came from? Chances are it was from a scrapbook enthusiast like yourself. If there’s an idea that you’ve had for a new gadget or gismo that you think would make life a lot easier, consider developing it. You could go to a large company with your idea, or start your own production of it.
Expert. Subscribe to some scrapbook magazines and when you feel that you’ve created an exceptional page, send an email picture of it! If it gets published then BANG your a scrapbooking expert! Just like that! Being published gives you unprecedented credibility.
Professional artist. How many people out there love the idea of scrapbooking but can’t and won’t be bothered to learn and indeed do it themselves? There is now a huge market for scrapbook designers.
Event organizer. Ever thought about organising a scrapbooking camp or scrapbooking weekend away trips? Themed vacations are a great way for enthusiasts to meet and share ideas! Scrapbook lovers would jump at this sort of thing!
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Starting a Successful Creative Scrapbooking Business, Part II
It’s ironic; what makes a creative scrapbooking business unique attractive to entrepreneurs seeking a work-at-home venture is also what makes it so incredibly challenging. After all, there are no definitive “rules” when it comes to pricing your scrapbook creations or determining where and how to advertise your services.
However, there are general business planning techniques you can use as a starting point to give your creative scrapbooking company the best chance of long-term success.
Setting Your Creative Scrapbooking Price Rates
Whether you specialize in wedding scrapbooks, memory scrapbooks, award/honor scrapbooks, or other creative scrapbooking creations, you’ll need to develop a price guideline. Otherwise, it will be difficult to negotiate with clientele.
Determining your creative scrapbooking business price guideline may seem daunting at first blush, but it’s actually not that complicated when broken down into “bite sized” pieces.
Hourly Rates or Standard Price per Scrapbook?
First, you’ll need to determine whether you want to set prices per project or per hour.
One huge advantage to charging per creative scrapbooking project is that consumers are accustomed to paying for products this way. After all, people don’t purchase a pair of shoes based on how long it took a cobbler to make them; they simply look at the price tag or retail value and decide if they feel it’s a worthwhile investment.
That being said, setting a price per creative scrapbooking project may not always be beneficial for you. If you discover you’re spending inordinate amounts of time on each scrapbook you create, your originally quoted price might not match your efforts. (Remember the old adage: Time is Money.)
Essentially, you can expect to experiment with your creative scrapbooking cost methods at first. Perhaps with some clients, you could offer a “per project” rate, but with others, you might try an hourly approach. There’s no “right or wrong” process–you simply want to find the best one for your creative scrapbooking business.
Remember to Consider “Hidden Costs”
Before “going public” with your scrapbook price structure, make sure you’ve accounted for the many costs (both direct and indirect) associated with owning a creative scrapbooking business. Be certain to include the amount you expect to spend on basic creative scrapbooking supplies such as specialty paper, a scrapbook, adhesives, stickers, markers, and fabrics.
Add into your creative scrapbooking price figures telephone calls, mileage (if you’ll travel for consultations), babysitting costs, and any overhead.
At this point, your initial price estimates may seem too high or low. Consequently, you can modify them accordingly, although you should never underestimate what people will pay for a one-of-a-kind scrapbook.
Selling Your Creative Scrapbooking Services
You’ve determined your basic scrapbook price. Creative scrapbooking supplies are on hand and on order. You’re organized, primed, and ready to go. But wait! You still need to attract that first key customer.
Advertising and marketing are stumbling blocks for many creative scrapbooking business start-ups; consequently, plenty of scrapbook enthusiasts shy away from becoming entrepreneurs because they assume they’ll never be able to publicize their talents. However, if you approach the selling of your creative scrapbooking services pragmatically, you’ll have an excellent chance of attracting clientele.
Initially, you may want to try a technique that has worked for many other creative scrapbooking aficionados – scrapbook “parties”. These get-togethers are akin to the “tupperware” gatherings made famous in the 70s. Put simply, a friend offers to host a scrapbook party at his or her residence for several persons interested in the world of creative scrapbooking.
Your role at the scrapbook party will be to introduce them to creative scrapbooking and to talk about what you can do for them. Obviously, it will be crucial to bring along business cards (why not design handmade “mini scrapbook cards” for the occasion?) as well as sample scrapbooks you’ve created. Coupons for discount scrapbook services make nice add-ons and will encourage scrapbook party guests to hire you. From this party, you can expect to get a few “nibbles” and perhaps one or two customers.
Naturally, it’s essential to do a fabulous job on your first scrapbook assignment. You must give it “your all”; that way, your client will have a reason to brag about and show off your customized (and exceptional) creative scrapbooking services to friends, family, and coworkers. You can also use your satisfied customer (if he or she agrees) as a “spokesperson” for your creative scrapbooking business in future advertising campaigns.
Next … Beyond Marketing 101
In the final article of our three-part creative scrapbooking business piece, we’ll examine particularly creative scrapbooking business marketing ideas and provide hints on running your creative scrapbooking company wisely, ethically, and efficiently.
Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a creative scrapbooking supplies company also offering contemporary picture frames, in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
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Starting a Successful Creative Scrapbooking Business, Part I
Creative scrapbooking has taken the world by storm. It’s relaxing, fun, social… and, let’s face it, incredibly addictive! After all, what scrapbooker doesn’t smile with pride when she or he finishes a decorative project?
If you have the talent to create eye-catching, creative scrapbooks, you can actually turn your hobby into a lucrative creative scrapbooking career. In this three-part series, we’ll show you some of the secrets to running a home-based creative scrapbooking company that regularly adds extra coins to your coffers!
Why Creative Scrapbooking?
People from all walks of life have photos and mementoes cluttering their homes. They’d love to organize and arrange them, but don’t have the time (or, in some cases, the ability.) That’s where you, as a professional scrapbooker, can step in!
Through creative scrapbooking, you can create delightful, entertaining, and touching memory books that will be certain to have a very long shelf life. Imagine… your scrapbook creations could someday become precious family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation!
What Types of Scrapbooks Sell?
Creative scrapbooking is an incredibly versatile field because you have virtually no boundaries. Graduation scrapbooks, family tree scrapbooks, baby scrapbooks, wedding scrapbooks, and achievement scrapbooks are only a few of the countless styles of creative scrapbooking inventions you can market.
Use your imagination; anything that’s relatively flat can go into a scrapbook, so the sky’s the limit.
Can Scrapbooking Really Be Profitable?
Creative scrapbooking, as with any legitimate business, won’t make you rich overnight. But if you’re determined and plan your creative scrapbooking operation pragmatically, you can absolutely make money from this burgeoning industry.
Best of all, creative scrapbooking is a low overhead industry. You’ll need to start with a modest amount of scrapbooking supplies, but you can build your stock over time thanks to fast shipping and wholesale prices offered at Internet scrapbooking supply stores.
How Can I Start Professionally Scrapbooking?
Obviously, the first step to starting a creative scrapbooking company (even one with a single employee, aka “you”) is to develop a business plan. This document should include an overview, financial information (including income and expense projections, marketing ideas, local competition statistics, and realistic growth rates.
Though you may not be able to find exact data to work into your creative scrapbooking business plan, try to be as complete as possible. The more information you include, the better your chances of success.
Do I Need Any Formal Training?
Though there are no credentials needed to call yourself a creative scrapbooking pro, you may want to take a few community courses on scrapbooking design. Doing so will keep you “in the know” as far as the latest products and trends are concerned; it will also provide you with fresh ideas to propose when working with clientele.
What Do I Need in Terms of Stock?
One of the most essential items you’ll need to start a creative scrapbooking venture is scrapbooking paraphernalia. Chances are, you already have some supplies around your home, but if they aren’t organized, it’s time do so.
Invest in some bins (dollar stores have a plethora of options) and label them according to scrapbooking supplies, such as stickers, papers, backgrounds, adhesives, albums, markers, scrapbooking magazines (for inspiration), and borders. This way, you’ll always know exactly how much of each scrapbooking necessity you have and can order more before you run out.
Do I Need to Rent a Space for My Scrapbooking Business?
Though it would certainly be wonderful to have an “offsite” locale for your creative scrapbooking enterprise, it’s more likely that you’ll need to make due with your current digs.
Anything from a corner of your family room to a renovated closet can serve as your creative scrapbooking “headquarters”. Just make certain that you have enough space and light to work your magic and store your scrapbooking supplies!
What Will I Tell My Family?
If you’re worried about “breaking” the news to your family that you’re setting off on an entrepreneurial scrapbooking journey, you’re not alone. Many first-time business owners are reticent to reveal their plans to loved ones for fear that their significant others will not be supportive.
With that said, it’s critical to the long-term success of your creative scrapbooking business that you have the “buy in” of your kin. So take a deep breath, muster up all your courage, and boldly state, “I’m going to become a professional scrapbooker! And when the money starts coming in, the first dinner out is on me!”
The Next Step
Are you eager to start your creative scrapbooking adventure? In our next article, we’ll explore how to set your prices and market and advertise your home-based scrapbooking services…
Michele Cardello, director of marketing and creative for Life Imprints, a creative scrapbooking supplies company also offering contemporary picture frames, in Cleveland, Ohio, has worked in the photo packaging industry for 10 years. Cardello helps customers find creative ways to preserve and appreciate a lifetime of memories.
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Getting paid to scrapbook isn’t as easy as people think. It’s true that a scrapbooking business doesn’t require as much capital funds as other Internet businesses. But that doesn’t mean you’ll immediately have money pouring in. If you wish for your scrapbooking home based business to work, you need to think of it just like any other Internet business and devote to it a lot of your time and effort.
5 Ways to Get Paid to Scrapbook
If you don’t possess ALL of the following characteristics then it’s very unlikely that you’re suited to successfully run a scrapbooking home based business or even to just get paid to scrapbook.
Imagination / Creativity – Although you can make templates of your designs, some or many of them will soon run out of favor with your clients. These designs will have to be “retired” and replaced with something new, and herein lie the most important question: are you sure you can consistently create new, attractive, and unique designs for your business?
Scrapbooking is an art. It’s not a science. You need to show a flair for creativity for each and every aspect of your design. You need to be willing to explore the very limits of your imagination. So are you ready to do that?
Diligence and Patience – Scrapbooking is hard work. If you’ve been doing this for a long time, you should know that by now. But making a scrapbooking project for yourself and your loved ones is entirely different from doing a scrapbooking project for profit. There is no emotional motivation to ensure you work diligently on the project. Money and maybe a sense of achievement and pleasing someone are the only motivational factors you’ll get, but are they enough for you?
Scrapbooking isn’t governed by objectivity. It’s an art, after all. In mathematics, you add one and one and get two. There’s no other right answer than that. But in scrapbooking, what you may think is gorgeous may appear gaudy to others. There will be times that you and your customer will not be able to see each other eye to eye. When this happens, can you exhibit the required patience to see things through till the end of the project?
Pressure – Making scrapbooking projects can be high-pressured tasks. There’s the deadline, for instance. Because you’re creating scrapbooking projects for others and for profit, it’s what they say that matters. Customers will always want a deadline: you have to give it to them and meet it. And of course there are the expectations from your customers: you need to ask clearly what they expect from you and determine if you’re ready and able to meet all these.
Business Mind – Never forget that even if a scrapbooking home business allows you to earn money from your hobby or artistic talent, it is still essentially a business. A business can’t survive if it doesn’t profit. To obtain profit, your income must be more than your expenses.
Are you prepared to handle the business front of your scrapbooking business or will you have someone manage this aspect for you? Either way, you must be sure that your scrapbooking business can satisfy the following conditions.
Firstly, your scrapbooking must have competitive pricing. You must determine just how much you can reasonably charge for items. Determine how much would appeal to your target market. What other pricing strategies can you employ to attract more customers to your business?
Speaking of target markets, do you know who it is your scrapbooking home based business will best appeal to? For that matter, do you wish to work with a general market or carve a niche for yourself?
Someone has to handle the accounting aspect of your business if you’re not prepared for it. Like other businesses, yours have to pay taxes regularly. Performing financial accounting will also let you know if you’re earning or not.
Fourthly, determine your goals for the business. You must have vision and direction. You need to have something to work for because your business won’t survive for long without a plan.
Last but certainly not the least, you need to develop and implement the necessary marketing strategies to make your scrapbooking business more well-known.
Internet Savvy – Home based businesses in general flourish and succeed more in the virtual world. If you want better ROI and greater access to the market, you need to develop your Internet marketing skills to create a formidable online presence for your scrapbooking business.
If you have all these then congratulations! You’re definitely suited to having your own scrapbooking home based business!
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