I recently attended a craftsman guild meeting and had an introduction to why I should join.  With a craft show planned for the next month several of the members went over some things that could make a few more sales and one of them being packaging of the items you sell. 

 

Do not use plastic grocery bags or brown paper bags!  Even if you may not be able to afford printed with your business name on them at this time at least get plain white the size of what you are selling!  

 

Source is a good question, since I have not yet been able to get ahead enough to consider a show but I would imagine somewhere like Staples or maybe wallyworld should have something suitable.  

 

Also recommended is tissue paper wrapping for items that may scratch again white and not newspapers!

 

As Tom and Marvin stressed, customer, customer, customer, and you sell yourself was another one of the things that was discussed!

 

If any of you are members of a craftsman guild I am sure you could add more, for those who are not familiar with what a guild is check and see if you have such a thing in your area and if so try to attend one of their meetings, it may be worth looking into.

 

Pappy John

Muncy, Pa.