Is it possible to make money with handicrafts and live exclusively from the activity? This question is one of the most frequently asked here on the site, and that’s why we brought a content focused only on this, dealing with the details of selling handicrafts.

If you have ever asked yourself this same question, read the text to the end and clear all your doubts! Believe me, it can make a difference in your life and bring the monthly income you have dreamed of.

Making Money with Crafts: tips, information and how to make money

Ready to find out what it takes to make money with crafts and leverage your earnings impressively, finally making a living at it? Read to the end!

Work x Profitability

This is the number 1 point to address when it comes to making money with crafts. This is because you need to make a simple mathematical calculation and verify if, in your case, it is worth working in the sector.

For example, suppose that to develop a single piece of handicrafts you spend 1 hour, and this piece is sold for R$50 (US$25), your profitability is R$15 (US$15). This means that your profitability will be

7 hours of work per day x R$ 15 reais = R$ 105 reais x 22 working days = R$ 2,310 reais.
Great, in theory “it looks beautiful”, but will you be able to sell all the pieces?

What you need to take into consideration is whether your profitability is really attractive and within what you expect to achieve in monthly income with your business.

The ideal is to work with handicraft products with profitability above R$ 40 reais per hour.

Making money with handcrafts is possible by the percentage of gain

I’ll tell you, making money with handcrafts is not only possible, it’s even very “simple”. That’s because the percentage of profit on each piece is high, since the raw materials are usually affordable and the rest of the cost is derived from the labor.

Of course, it also depends on you creating beautiful, creative handicrafts and having demand.

Now, what “should” be the earning percentage of each handicraft piece? To arrive at an appropriate percentage take into consideration the following:

Cost + time + market.

Cost: how much did you spend to make the crafts?
Time: how long does it take?
Market: how much will consumers accept to pay? How much is your product/similar being sold in the market?
Typically, an attractive profitability rate for crafts is 200% to 400% of cost. For example, a handicraft that cost $20 and took about 1.5 hours to develop, you can charge around $60 to $80.

But remember, each case is unique, you must take into account the market behavior for that product.

It’s not enough to make handicrafts, you have to sell them!

You have 200 pieces of handicrafts in your inventory. Now I ask you: do you make money with handcrafts? I guarantee you don’t. And if you do, it is much less than you would like.

The handicrafts in your inventory are gathering dust and you are incurring unnecessary costs because you have spent on material, labor, everything, and you can’t get a return.

Now I am about to deliver the “gold” to make money with handicrafts, and for sure, the most common mistake of those who cannot live only from this activity.

It is mandatory to invest part of your time to sell crafts, this will bring you financial gains.