Selling Your Journals Series Video No. 1 - Where to Sell Junk Journals
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2021
- This is the first video in a new series I am doing about selling journals! I will be answering some of the questions I regularly get on this topic throughout this series.
In this episode, I am talking about where to sell your journals!
Please let me know what questions you might have--either in regards to this video or selling in general!
BTW--I had planned to do this video as an IGTV video and that is why it was filmed in a vertical orientation. It was too long for IGTV, so I had to pop it in here! ;)
xoxo
Amy :)
Also visit me on Instagram @KittywittyPapercraft and my Etsy shop: kittywittypapercraft.etsy.com
Thank you for your support!
6:32 So, about selling at a craft fair, I would sell kits to make the journal because you may have people that like to craft come through and buy the kit to make their own. If they don't sell, then you can still use the material to make one and sell. I would also have a few select premade journals for those that may want to purchase one already made and also for ideas for the kits. If you also set up in a shop and do the same thing, you could get a better chance of returning customers and even travelers. Plus you don't have to stay with your booth and you get more than just a couple of days to sell. 😊
Thank you for sharing your great advice and thanks for watching!! 🤗🩷💛🩵
Thank you. I didn’t know you could sell on Instagram. I’ll have to look into that.
On pricing, I wanted to say how frustrating it is to see people selling Junk Journals and handmade ephemera at too low prices. It devalues them as an art form and it hurts those of us who market at a realistic price. By which I mean, recoups the cost of materials, cost of selling (fees, etc.) and gives a fair compensation for the time and talent invested in creating these one-of-a-kind products.
I really appreciate your information. Thank you!
❤ Shirley
Hi Shirley! Thank you for watching! Yes, it is really hard to charge enough to make a profit when there are those who price so low. Just remember that if you want to make a profit, you will want your "market" to be those who are looking for high quality, unique journals and will pay a premium for them.
And selling on IG is easy! You just need a PayPal account so you can send buyers invoices and collect payments. Ask those who wish to buy from you to send you a DM on IG with their name, email address and mailing address.
And, of course, sharing your work on IG is how you can find your target market. Be sure to post often...especially video these days! Good luck to you!! 🤗💖💖💖
very logical saying, I agree alright not just due to external fees but 'mostly' for the very long hours + energy & also passion that are spent to make only one of these artworks & journals.. it may take at time months to achieve one!! Some earn +$20 per hour at some routinous everyday job, ..calculate this!!
Love your video, Amy! You’re amazing and so kind to offer this information and advice. I’ve learned as I go with craft fairs and realize that I don’t charge for my time.😬 The LGB journals I sell at craft fairs take me hours and I had no problem selling all of them for the price I sold them for...and I realized that I priced them way too low considering the premium items I included in them (vintage LGB’s, October Afternoon paper, lots of die cuts and stickers and vintage ephemera.) plus all the hours I put into them. Live and learn I guess haha. It has taken me time and a lot of encouragement from my incredible viewers/friends, to start pricing my items more logically and charging for my time and quality items. I love creating journals more than anything! Thank you again for this wonderful video...it’s so generous of you to offer this guidance to us. ❤️ Amber
Hey Amber! I am so glad you saw this video! I meant to tell you I mentioned you!! Thank you for sharing your experience!! I didn't know what you priced your craft fair journals for. I think many people do not take labor into consideration. And when selling online, there are fees to pay, plus the cost of shipping packaging, and if running a business, money has to be held back for taxes! Then what's left is what we make! Not sure if you saw the 2nd video I did in this series, but I talk all about what you can expect to make when selling journals. I'm going to have a few videos on pricing soon! Thank you so much for watching and sharing your input!! Hope you're doing well, my friend!! 🤗💖💖💖💖
@@KittywittyPapercraft Thank you, Amy! Heading over to watch part 2 now! Thank you again for being so kind. 🥰 Amber
So, make heaps of journals and have stock of empty/naked ones from cardboard boxes and book covers. I don't tend to use mass-produced single-use materials such as stickers and transfers and make a lot of my own ephemera from old books I find for pennies or free. I do decorate some of my books and enjoy the process and looking at them when I'm done. I enjoy finding my materials and have a craft shop's worth of stuff in my stash. I think the kit route is the way for me...
Amber at Lyric Lover started with ring-bound Little Golden Book Christmas journals and sold them for $25.
Thank you for sharing that, Peggy!! That sounds like a great craft fair journal idea she had!
Lol, well this was timely! I've been making journals 2 yes now and feel it's time, plus I've been invited to be a vendor at a craft festival, so thank you! ❤😊
how exciting!! Wish you all the best luck!! 🤗💕💕💕💕
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience with us. As I am thinking about beginning my journey from 25 years of paper crafting into a selling journey, this is so informative. I am taking notes and will be re-watching No. 2, so I can take notes on that one and watch No. 3 and any others you put out. You are so clear and honest. You are a great teacher, as well. Thank you so much!
This is such a beneficial topic and I want to say thank you for diving into this!! In a future video can you share how to make the most of hashtags?
Thank you and thank you for watching! I will add your suggestion to my list! Thanks so much!! xoxo Amy :)
This is so timely and useful, thank you. I know I'm watching it 2 years after the fact, but it's still fully valid info!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you found it useful. Wishing you all the best!! 🤗💕
Thank you so much! I am excited about this series and getting to learn from you!
Thank you SO much, April!! I really appreciate it!! xoxo Amy :)
Amy, I can’t tell you how timely this video series is!! I have recently opened an Etsy store and started on Instagram. I’ve been feeling blue because nothing much is happening and I feel so much better hearing you say it takes time 💗 I’m new to both platforms though and if you could do another video on selling on Etsy and Instagram I would be so very grateful 💗 I’m getting ready to watch your pricing video now!! You have restored my hope and enthusiasm and I thank you sooooo much!! Huge hug!!!
🌷💗 Tina💗🌷
Hi Tina!! I am so sorry I missed your comment!! Thank you for watching the series! I just published the video on pricing (Jul 31st). I hope you'll check it out! I will be talking more in the coming weeks about selling on IG and Etsy and getting your work out there! Yes, it takes time and is hard work, but you can do it! Please let me know if I can ever be of any help!! xoxo Amy :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH Kittywitty Papercraft! Your video couldn’t be timed anymore perfectly! I have been pacing my brain back & forth wondering which way to go & this has answered so many questions & has cleared many doubts. Most importantly has fired up the crafting heart even more so not to give up & to keep believing in what you create. Thank you for sharing your honest experience 💖😌
Hi Krystal!! I am so very sorry I missed your comment!! Thank you for your kind words! I am glad you are feeling fired up and not wanting to give up! It is not an easy road, but you can overcome any obstacles! I just posted a 3rd video in this series--this one on pricing journals and handmade goods. In the 2nd video I talk about how much money you can expect to make selling journals. Hope you check them out and find them helpful! Please let me know if you ever have any questions!! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you so much. This is great information. Thanks for sharing this with us. I can't wait for the next one!
Hi Connie! Thank you so much!! I appreciate you watching!! Let me know if there is anything in particular you would like me to cover! 🤗💖💖💖💖
Thank you. I love your ideas and your down to earth approach. I will definitely be following you !
Going to love this series-thank you!
Joni, I am sorry I missed your comment!! Thank you for watching and commenting! Hope you're doing well!! xoxo Amy :)
So awesome Amy thank you so much❣️💖 o much needed!
You are welcome, Stacy!! Thanks for watching!! xoxo Amy :)
Wow! this is a very good subject to talk about.. it may be hard for a beginner to sell immediately their artworks & vintage ephemera.., who recently got introduced to e-marketing!! As a new hobby I started lately, I came up with tonz of various-themed junk-journals, really fun & therapeutic.. I love it, though no time to promote & sell them all.. social-media is not really my thing!!!
Thank you for this information, very helpful! Looking forward to the others in this series. I have an Instagram account but never use it so looking forward to more information about it.
You bet, Holly!! Thank you for watching and commenting!! xoxo Amy :)
Omgosh!!! I searched for this topic and your video popped up first!! I’m so excited to hear all this info! Just what I needed. I’m a long time crafter maker… and I have an ig acct and I have Etsy….. I was selling mostly vintage collectibles and stumbled across junk journals and wondered where this from has been all my life!!! So I’m so excited to take what I’ve learned from you today and apply it! I’m going to ck out and see your other videos and follow you on ig.
Would love info on how to do you tube as well, tutorials and stuff and the kind of equipment that u use. Thank you again…
Kindly,joy
Joy Made Market
Hi Joy! Thank you for your sweet comment! I did 3 videos in this series and I hope they are helpful. As you will hear in one of the videos, it is really hard making any sort of living selling handmade (without sacrificing a lot of time and maybe your well-being!) and I decided recently to just do Kittywitty Papercraft as a hobby. I still have my Etsy shop where I sell junk journal supplies, but I'm not making journals or videos or classes anymore. It just got to be too much time and effort and sacrifice for too little in return. I hope you can get something out of my YT videos and IG. I spent a long time creating content (especially on IG) that I hoped provided some value to other journal makers, so maybe you can find something there that is helpful. I wish you all the best! 🤗💖💖💖
Great information, I look forward to watching all the videos in this series. I have questions about pricing and see that is the next video so I'm off to watch that one!
I'm sorry I missed your comment, Tammy! Thank you for watching! I just published the video on pricing yesterday (July 31), so I hope you get a chance to check it out! Thanks so much!! xoxo Amy :)
Awesome video, Amy! We all appreciate your advice! So helpful! A video on pricing would be great!
Thank you so much, Trish!! I"m sorry I missed your comment!! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you! Just the video I have been looking for.
Thank you so much for watching!! 🤗💖💖💖
This is great information! Thank you so much!
Sure thing, Nancy!! Thank you for watching and commenting!! xoxo Amy :)
I and just starting to think about selling my handmade cards, Junk Journals, and Mixed Media Art. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this GREAT information!!! So very helpful.
You bet!! Thank you for watching and commenting! I wish you all the best!! 🤗💕💕💕
Thanks so much for your friendly teaching on how to do this selling stuff!!! You have made a scary topic so much more understandable.
Oh, thank you so much!! Best of luck to you!! 🤗💖💖💖💖
This is something I have been wanting to do, as a way to use up some of my large stash of art and papercrafting supplies. Making some money from it would be a welcome side benefit. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this info. It is encouraging and helpful, and I am looking forward to your future videos on this topic. A more detailed explanation of how sales through Instagram/Paypal work, as well as everything else you mentioned sound like they will be helpful!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and question, T!! I have added it to my list! I appreciate you planning to watch this series!! It means the world to me! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you so much for sharing this information. It has been very helpful.
Thank you for letting me know, Cheryl, and thanks for checking it out!! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you for such an informative video! I am getting close to embarking on the sales end and have been researching my options!
You are welcome!! Thank you for watching! Best of luck to you!! 🤗💖💖💖
Very helpful!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this series! I appreciate the honesty and the perspective from someone who has done it. I always said I would never take financial advice from someone who couldn't tell me how much a gallon of milk is. Same applies to business ventures. I don't want advice from anyone who isn't a small business owner.
Hi Carrie! Thank you so much and thank you for watching! There is so much bad advice out there! You have to be discerning. And I even make sure to say I'm not a business or marketing expert. I am only sharing just what I've experienced and learned in setting up my business. Too many "business coaches" are telling people how to start and run a business, but they are really only good at marketing, so they look like experts and convince you to buy their courses and programs that promise outlandish results although they don't know how to help you achieve results. I've spent thousands of dollars on useless programs, I'm sad to say. I hope my videos at least give people some pointers about where to start and what things to consider. The biggest thing I hope I got across (and it was so long ago, I don't remember everything I said!) is that it is NOT easy to run a business and it can take a long time to be profitable. I wish you all the best in your endeavors!! 🤗💖💖💖
@@KittywittyPapercraft 🙏🏼
This is awesome, to inform me of what different routes there are to take so that I may sell JJ.. Thank you.
You are welcome! Thank you for watching! 🤗💕
Wow! You really explained the selling aspect well!!! Thankyou SO MUCH!!!!! This really helped me ! I will subscribe now.😊
Hi Annie! Thank you!! I'm glad you found it helpful! Thank you for subscribing, too. I'm not making content any longer because I'm not working on my crafting business much any longer, but I appreciate your support! 🤗💕💕💕
Thank you so much!! Great insight! I post pics of my LGB on my personal IG account. I guess I need to create a public profile just for my journals. There are Aussie jj sellers but we are a smaller market here. Like you said, just start with IG and work from there! Thank you!
Hey Anita! I really do recommend creating a separate account for selling your journals. Be sure to make it a "Business" or "Creator" account so you will get analytics (like what days/times your followers are on IG). And as far as having a smaller market in Australia--that can be an advantage! Best of luck to you!! xoxo Amy :)
@@KittywittyPapercraft thank you!
Loved your information. And you were easy to listen to. I'm thinking I need to do a couple of craft fairs first and make sure there's people out there who want them. I am in a major market setting and ....thank you so much. 🌹
Thank you so much!! I appreciate your kind words! I will just add that the market in person can be very different than the market online, so even if they don't sell well in person, they may do well online! That's partly because you have. a much bigger pool of people to sell to online and that makes it easier to find those who will pay for one of a kind handmade items. If you do try selling at craft fairs, look for ones that feature lots of higher quality handmade one of kind items so you don't have to price your work too low. Wish you all the best! 🤗💖💖💖
Thank You I have subscribed and will follow, Great info. I wanted to know how to get started on selling and how to navigate my computer to post great pics and do video and send links, Wow...lots to learn. Thanks again, Kat
Hi Kat! Thank you for watching and commenting! Yes, there is so much to learn! You can do it, though! Just learn one thing at a time and give yourself a lot of time (more time than you might think!) to learn and put what you've learned into practice! I didn't start crafting until I was 44 years old and I wasn't tech savvy, nor had I used social media much prior to then either. I taught myself everything I needed to learn--photos, editing, video, social media, marketing--and just kept putting one foot in front of the other. I learned everything through CZcams and Google! You can do it! Best of luck!!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment! 🤗💖💖💖
💖 this is amazing 💝👌
Thank you so much!! 🤗💕💖💕💖💕
Thank you for this video!
You are welcome!! Thanks so much for watching!! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you for the information !
You are welcome, Maggy!! Thank you for watching! xoxo Amy :)
Thank you so much
I don't know much about Instagram except that I have an account but I do have several Golden book junk journals to sell.
I need a very basic and very simple explanation if that's possible.
Much appreciated I love watching your videos your journals are amazing 💕
Thank you for your kind words, Sabrina!! There is so much that can be shared about how to best use IG that it will be hard to come up with a basic explanation, but I will try!! Could you share a little more about what you would want to know? Thanks so much!! xoxo Amy :)
I want to know how to upload pics or videos and I know nothing about hastags
@@sabrinafoote4906 Ok! Thank you for sharing that!! I will add it to my list! 🤗💕💕💕
this is super helpful thanks lots for sharing :-) I'd e so grateful to know & understand more about selling via Instagram atm, while I'm just going to make a start. specifically, how you might do this for international peeps. I'm in nz & before having an Etsy shop (or....) just like email with national sales, it'd be easy enough to do with bank deets, but not internationally of course. anyways, I know this is all beginning stuff which is where I am situated (almost there!) so starting nationally is probably a good thing anyways, besides doing summer markets, but perhaps for international it'd be best to wait for Etsy set-up? any advice is so welcome. thanks again for sharing (-:
Hi Liana! Yes, I totally recommend starting out with just selling nationally at first. And then you can decide if you want to even sell internationally. I've chosen not to sell outside of the U.S. and Canada because the shipping costs (and then the fees I have to pay on that) are just too high. Not to mention the worry of packages getting lost in such a long travel. I know many people do it, though, so you just have to see what works for you. And if you do decide to do international sales, I don't know how easy it is to do that through PP. As long as you can print an international shipping label, it should be doable. I am assuming selling on IG using PayPal is the same in NZ as it is in the U.S. I will share more about that method in an upcoming video. Thank you!! xoxo Amy :)
Hello Amy, very informative video. I appreciate your willingness to share so much information. I have seen Facebook group's where you can sell your junk journals, do you know anything about them? Personally I have not joined one, I feel like my work would be judged lol 😂 and you are right about craft shows I actually did that a couple of years ago, I actually had a multitude of other crafts and I did lower the price and I only sold one. Have a great evening 🤗💗
Hi Ann! Oh, yes! I totally forgot about selling in those special FB groups! That is certainly an option and could be an easy way to test out the waters. I know it is hard to not worry about being judged, but most people are very kind and if someone is not, it is not about you anyway. Judgements are always projections of something people feel about themselves. And you don't want to not do things because of fear of judgement. Life is too short to play small! Thanks for watching and sharing, Ann!! xoxo Amy :)
Love the video friend! I absolutely love your philosophy; I think selling should be as natural as sharing your work with those who can benefit from it. I think the issue many of us potential sellers contend with is the overwhelm we feel when we stick our toe in the water of becoming an entrepreneur. There is so much information and so many steps that it causes paralysis; begin where you are is probably the best advice I ever heard concerning such. You rock!
@@onceuponatimepaperie4491 Aww, thanks for you nice comment, Crystal!! I know it can be overwhelming when you are at the beginning of something new and there is so much to learn. Hopefully, I can share all that I've learned along the way and be a guide for you, so it's not so overwhelming and frustrating!! 🤗💖💖💖💖
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Thank you, Joanne! xoxo
Thank you so much for this. It was very helpful for me, I look forward to your next videos on selling on IG. I have questions: Is a business account on IG better than a normal account to sell? Do you really need an ETSY shop if you sell on IG? Thank you again for your help! Cheers from Belgium
Thank you for watching and commenting, Pam! Great questions! I will talk about them in a future video, but wanted to say that yes, a business account is better to have for selling on IG because you have access to more analytic data and no, you do not really need an Etsy shop if you sell on IG! There are pros and cons to doing only IG or having an Etsy shop, but I think it's a good idea to test things out by starting by simply selling on IG! xoxo Amy :)
@@KittywittyPapercraft Thank you so much for your replies, much appreciated!
@@pamita005 You bet! I'm here anytime you have a question!! 🤗💖💖💖💖
An IG creator account gives you the best of both worlds, and you can still view your stats.
Why don;t you have any journals for sale in your Etsy shop? All I see are supplies to make journals. Lyric Lover also has an empty shop. Should I assume from this that journals just do not sell well? Maybe the money is just in the supplies?
Hi Diane! I only sell journals now occasionally because they are very time consuming to make and when I do sell them, I am very fortunate that they sell out very quickly. I used to release a collection each month, but they take so much time to make (which means very little money for the time I'm working), that I mostly sell kits and my online classes that teach how to make them! I would say the reason is just the opposite of what you asked! They sell so well that they don't stay in our shops very long and in-between, you can find supplies and other items. It is very hard to make a living selling one of a kind handmade because there is so much labor/time involved, from procuring supplies, to making the item, to taking photos and videos and editing and listing each one, that if one wants to have a profitable business, they need to offer the one of a kind handmade items just occasionally, and have simpler items offered more regularly. Please let me know if you have any questions!! Thank you for your comment!! 🤗💖💖💖💖
I sell journals at a local coffee shop.