Trove: Creative Business Classes
Choose from a range of exciting creative business classes from Trove:
7 November: A Beginners’ Guide to Selling on Etsy
6pm-8pm
Do you make gorgeous handmade items? Are they accumulating in your cupboard now that EVERY one of your friends and family have one? Is it time to dip your toe into the world of online selling but you have NO clue where to start? Or maybe you have opened your shop and since then, well …. crickets. Then this workshop is for you. Trove Canberra member Rebecca of Blue Radish will help you learn how to open your Etsy shop, create a listing, write titles, tags and descriptions that will get your item found, level up your photography for selling online and more.
8 November: Pricing Handmade Products – POSTPONED to 15 November
6pm-8pm
Unsure how to price your handmade products, and what they are really worth? You are not alone! Trove Canberra member, Theresa from ‘a little bird made me’ invites you to learn about the theory and techniques for pricing handmade. Theresa has 5 years’ experience running her own handmade business, and has mentored many designers through this process so can support you to understand the financial, practical and ethical questions. Feel free to bring along some of your work so we can consider an example together.
14 November: Handmade Business
6pm-8pm
Thinking about getting started on a handmade business? Or have a hobby you think could be so much more? Trove Canberra member Kellyanne of Lex and Lou would like to invite you to learn what she knows now that she didn’t know when she started. It’s been 2 years since Kellyanne’s passion for making clothes for her daughter turned from a hobby into a small business. Learn what to do – and what not to do – as you begin your handmade journey.
21 November: Getting Started On WordPress
6pm-8pm
If you have a beautiful product to promote, you need a home on the web. Maybe you have been dreaming of creating your own gorgeous website but the “behind-the-scenes” of the online world is all a mystery to you. Maybe you’ve heard that it is expensive or that you have to be ‘technically minded’ or need to know HTML. In this workshop Trove Canberra member Rebecca of Blue Radish will bust these myths and show you how WordPress can be a cost effective and accessible way to build yourself an online presence. We’ll step through how to do it from the very beginning.