Developing A Ceramics Business

If you are starting your ceramic business you need to take location marketing design and storage into consideration.

Developing a ceramics business. Also consider developing an e commerce website for your ceramics or online storefront on an arts and crafts marketplace such as etsy or artfire. Make sure if you are not a business person that you have good advisors on issues of money. Small freestanding ceramics stores have opened up all over the united states to help hobbyists customize pottery and earthen wares. When we adhere to this maxim everything else will fall into place.

A pottery business is ideally suited to being operated from a home based studio location. Additionally if zoning permits the studio can also act as a retail outlet or factory direct sales outlet. While many potters tend to shy away from digital technology managing an online shop is a cost effective way to dramatically extend your reach and boost the sales of your ceramics. I m trying to help a friend sell her ceramics business she was running out of her 2 500 sq ft basement.

She s been in the business for over 50 years and probably has over 50 000 molds as well as glazes paints 2 kilns etc. In this excerpt from the september 2016 issue of ceramics monthly kris vagner shares the lessons sutter and samantha stremmel learned when. And going into such an endeavor without a good ceramics business plan is not a good idea. During her junior year of college courtney on a whim took an introductory course on ceramics and developed a love for clay.

Adjust yourself to the ceramics process through the growing business of pottery stores. Whether you re an industrial ceramics supplier or a clay artist one of the biggest costs for your business will be energy. So today i am sharing some advice from a couple who took on this challenge and now have a thriving ceramic business. The process of turning the raw goods of ceramics into forced durable pieces takes a lot of water and time but it also takes a lot of heat.

Our services will exceed the expectations of our. We exist to attract and maintain customers. You may have found a wonderful creative outlet but business is business so craft an intelligent plan and execute. Moreover the reality of his own pottery business was that it was only through the support of patrons and the business acumen of his son david that it survived at all.

Nonetheless this diatribe contributed to a change in public attitudes towards pottery certainly from the mid 1930s onwards driving a rift between art and craft that as stair. Kaolin calefactors mission is to design and construct the finest dishware pottery. These businesses often provide full access to their customers as a way to educate the public on ceramics.