Handmade for Retail

A crash course on how to level-up your handmade product business, become a preferred retail vendor, and grow your retail accounts

Your Products Aren’t the Problem

If you’re a maker it’s likely your business practices — not your products — that are holding you back.

We get it. It’s hard to run a small business and wear all the hats that the job requires. Your title is likely, production lead, salesperson, and fulfillment specialist aka CEO. When you’re as in-the-weeds as most small-scale makers are, it’s often hard to do the very things that will enable you to take your business to the next level and help.

But that’s exactly why we built this course.

In this live class, Gillie Roberts, the founder of a sustainable retail store in downtown Asheville, will share with you how to make your products more attractive to retailers and ultimately, to your customers.

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Who is this live course for?

Small businesses or solo-entrepreneurs that make handmade wares
Makers that want to grow their business through retail channels
Third-party distributors of handmade products
Artists and makers that are thinking about starting a business and selling their products into retail stores

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About This Course

Tuesday March 9, 2021

9:00-10:30 AM or 7:00-8:30 PM EST

1 hour

30-minute live Q&A

Online via zoom

$150 / participant

In this live, virtual course, you’ll learn how to:

Sustainably grow your business through retail channels
Communicate with your retailers, including crafting a pitch message and maintaining a positive relationship
Sell more to your current stockist and entice more stockists to carry your products
Improve your product packaging so that retailers can sell your products with ease
Make your wares more consistent (and why it’s so important to do so)
Create cleaner invoices and set up payment processes that get you paid faster

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Meet Your Instructor

Gillie Roberts
Founder & Owner of Ware

Gillie Roberts is the founder and owner of Ware, a sustainable lifestyle retail shop in Asheville, NC. Her education is in sustainable economic development and she has spent the last three years launching and running Ware, a sustainable lifestyle store that has a strong emphasis on supporting other small businesses. Since opening Ware, she has worked with more than 50 makers and small-scale producers to get their goods in the hands of customers, and this course is the result of her lessons learned.

FAQ

What if I don’t have a business yet...can I still attend this workshop?

Absolutely! This webinar is helpful for both existing businesses and new ones. Having this information in your back pocket will help build a strong foundation for your new business and prepare you tremendously for retail sales.

Will I be able to ask questions during the workshop?

Yes! We will be monitoring questions through a live chat room. There will also be a live Q&A at the end of the workshop.

Will I earn my money back?

While there’s no way to directly measure your ROI of attending this webinar (and we can’t guarantee it!), what we can say is that you will walk away with strategies that will undoubtedly improve your relationship with your retailers. It’s up to you to put these lessons into action.

What is your cancellation policy?

All workshop sales are non-refundable. If you are no longer able to attend the live webinar, you will receive a recording of the workshop afterward. If due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to host the live webinar on the selected date, we will contact you to reschedule, or you will receive a 100% refund.