July 30, 2024

107: How To Host Profitable Craft Workshops

Here you’ll find tips and strategies to host your own profitable craft workshops. Chloe Winstanley made $100,000 in just two years, working very part-time.

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Do you have a crafting skill that you could teach others in your neighborhood?

Chloe Winstanley has some tips for you to make them profitable.

She made a net income of $100,000 in just two years, working very part-time. Chloe's expertise is in polymer clay, but the tips and strategies she shares can be applied to bootstrap and build any craft workshop.

In this episode, Chloe covers:

  • finding no-cost or low-cost venues for workshops
  • essential steps to get started
  • sales and marketing tips, and
  • key traits of a successful craft workshop leader.

What else? Chloe recounts what transpired after a workshop participant she was talking to fell through the floorboards…right in front her eyes.

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What You’ll Hear:

03:50 first workshop had 5 guests
04:15 this is polymer clay
05:03 the flow of the workshop
07:37 sweetspot is about 20 people in the class
10:07 pricing the workshops
12:49 options for venues, including community centres and cafes
13:55 materials and other costs
15:13 $1,000 NZ profit per workshop
17:11 growing from 0 to 20-25 people per workshop
20:10 paid Facebook ads is what Chloe’s been using to attract participants
23:06 setting up in a venue like a coffee shop can be a real win-win
23:55 consider partnering with your local service organization to build your business
27:03 how to bootstrap the craft workshop side hustle
28:36 characteristics of the ideal workshop host 
30:38 can sell tickets and use that revenue to buy your workshop supplies
32:16 a workshop participant fell right through the floorboards
37:17 Chloe’s best tip to start or grow your side hustle
Wrap Up
38:54 a pro is at their best always
39:44 conquering introverted tendencies 
41:21 here’s what is causing the results in your life

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