10 Cozy Items for the Fall
From cozy shawls to beautiful foliage-aligned jewelry, 10 cozy items for the fall.
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How to Answer Shoppers’ Questions—Before They Even Ask Them!
In this guide we’d like to help you anticipate shoppers’ questions and present information about your product in ways that busy shoppers can take in. By thinking like a buyer, you can create listings that have all the information buyers need to make a confident purchase. Clear, appropriately detailed listings are not the whole story, but they’ll impress shoppers and also reduce the likelihood of returns.
5 Handmade Gifts For Scorpio Season
Five handmade items at Artisans Coop that the Scorpios in your life will appreciate.
Outreach Templates That Work! Share with Your Community
Ready to share the good news about Artisans Cooperative but not sure what to say?
Use our ready-to-go templates and adjust as needed! Text that needs to be replaced with your unique information is in brackets – just like a Mad Lib.
7 Handmade Gifts for Halloween
Gather ’round, goblins and ghouls! All creatures, supernatural or otherwise, are welcome this Spooky Season. These spooktacular handmade gifts include both tricks and treats to keep in your candy bucket or to share with your coven! Happy Halloween!
WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Hello World! Today we’re opening the doors to Artisans Cooperative – the ONLY member-owned marketplace for buying handmade!
Tech Report: Our Phase 2 Beta Marketplace Launch
In this post, the Tech Team is announcing the features and progress made in the launch of the 2nd phase of our beta handmade marketplace.
The Value of Handmade: Why We Buy
We’ll say it: Handmade items are Art. And whether they’re functional items (“applied arts”) or decorative (“fine art”), art touches us more profoundly and deeply than most other things. In this post, we’ll explore why that is in interviews with artisans and supporters.
The Cost of Handmade: How Artisans Price Their Work
Pricing is one of the hardest decisions artisans have to make. In this post we’ll explain why artisans charge what they do for their handmade products.
How We Set Our Sales Commissions
In this post, we’ll talk about how we came up with our sales commissions, and what they are.
Sales commissions are the Coop’s primary source of income. When setting fees, it was important for Artisans Cooperative to weigh the marketing and financial risks of high and low fees, for both the longevity of the cooperative but also fairness and transparency for the artisan.