- Do you want to make money
with your Cricut from home?
Today, I'm gonna show you how.
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Hey everyone, it's Christina from the DIYMommy.com.
I've had my own business working from home
since my first daughter was born in 2009
and I have never regretted that decision.
Today, I am so happy to be partnering up with Cricut
who is sponsoring this video today.
And I'm gonna share with you five steps
to starting your own business from home
with your Cricut machine.
I'm also gonna share seven items that I have seen trending
right now this year that you could get started making.
Before I had the DIY Mommy blog
and then the YouTube channel,
I had my own little handmade baby goods business.
So I certainly learned a lot
from having my own handmade business.
So I wanted to share those tips and tricks with you today
and how you could incorporate a Cricut machine
into your own handmade business.
In case you're new to them,
Cricuts are a craft cutting machine.
You can cut a variety of different materials
vinyls, heat transfer vinyl, so that iron-on material,
you can even cut what's called infusible ink
and apply that to things like pillows
and Cricut just released their new machine, the Mug Press.
So you can apply that to mugs as well
to get a really professional look.
I've been using my Cricut machines since 2017,
I absolutely love them.
And I think they would be such a great tool to invest in
if you want to start your own handmade business.
step number one to starting your own business with Cricut
is to do your product research.
Check to see what's trending right now
that you could make with your machine,
and that's gonna help you to get some customers
right away, because you know what people are looking for.
So I did all of this research for you already.
I checked out Etsy.
I checked out other online marketplaces to kinda see
what was popping up the most,
in a products that you could cut with your Cricut machine.
So here are the top seven products I'm seeing,
use this information to make your own unique products
and really get your business going.
Number one are sweatshirts,
everybody loves personalized sweatshirts
with fun sayings on them.
Number two, our personalized tumblers,
I love a tumbler like this
just a simple personalized one with your name on it.
These are so easy to make.
People love their on the go cups,
so they're not using disposable cups
and I think they would be a great thing to start with.
Number three, our personalized cutting boards.
I've been seeing these everywhere.
I made a really fun cutting board for fall last year
and these are also simple to make with your Cricut as well.
You can cut a vinyl and apply it to a cutting board.
Pillows are also still really popular
right now with Cricut.
And the modern farmhouse style as long as it's been around
is still trending.
Creating a pillow is really simple,
I like to use infusible ink for mine.
This one, I use infusible ink
and I really love that professional finish
'cause the ink kind of blends right into the fabric
and makes it look so professional.
The next one I'm seeing is doormats.
You can make a stencil with the Cricut's stencil vinyl
and make a really fun and cheeky design
or something more personalized,
and those are selling really well still as well.
The next one are t-shirts people love
fun personalized t-shirts
and those are really simple to make with Cricut.
Again, I prefer the infusible ink for these
for a really beautiful transfer that lasts.
But you can also make these with heat transfer vinyl.
And the final product I'm seeing
that you can make with your Cricut and sell are labels.
People love to organize their pantries, their closets
or they might even want some labels
for their own handmade business
and you could create those with Cricut
and permanent vinyl or removable vinyl.
This is also a really great DIY to do
if you're relatively new to Cricut
When you're researching your product
check for any regulations around selling your product.
You might have to look into safety regulations
where you live and marketing regulations as well.
Also, check to see how much your product
is going to cost to create.
How much time you're gonna have to put into your product,
and then how much you can sell it for,
based on the cost everyone else is selling
a similar product for.
You wanna make sure that you're going to get a profit
from what you create.
Step number two, to start your Cricut business
is research your competition.
So once you have done your product research
you have an idea of what you want to create.
Check out all of the other sellers online
and locally who are selling a similar product.
Check to see what they're selling
and how you can make your product stand out.
So for example, they're selling some personalized tumblers
with their Cricut as well.
Think about how you can make your standout.
Are you gonna have a specific style that you use,
a specific type of vinyl?
Are you going to maybe create your own artwork
upload that into Cricut design space
and put that on the tumblers to make it unique.
You definitely wanna stand out
from the rest of your competitors.
Number three is customer research.
Try to find out who exactly is gonna buy your product.
How old are they?
Are they a man or a woman?
Where do they live?
What kind of income do they have?
Researching is all of that is gonna help you create
a product that is perfect for your consumer.
You want to know who they are,
imagine exactly what they're looking for
and create a product that they're going to love.
Number four is establishing your brand.
Now that you've done those first three important steps
which are research, which I think is a really important
before starting any handmade business,
you wanna create branding
so that your product and your brand is memorable.
I used to be a graphic and web designer,
so I totally geek out on this stuff.
I love this.
You're gonna want to create a name that's unique.
Definitely check out your local trademark office
do a search, make sure nobody else
is using the name you're thinking of.
You can also search on Etsy, on the web in general
to make sure your name is really unique and sticks out.
Then you want to create a unique logo.
You can do this yourself or you can find someone locally
or online to make one for you.
Decide what the feel of your brand is gonna be.
Is it gonna be more farmhouse, more modern, kitschy,
retro, and then find some colors that you're going to use
in your branding every single time
to make people remember who you are
and match those colors with your brand every time.
You're also gonna wanna buy domain names
and the social media channels that match that domain name.
Get all of those purchased and reserved
so that everything is all the same.
And the fifth and final step
to selling your products with Cricut is to start selling.
You want to start selling and marketing your product
after you've done all of the previous steps,
the research, setting up your brands.
You can start at places like local craft fairs
or maybe virtual craft fairs are happening a lot right now,
and just kinda test your local market first if you like.
Or you can start right away and venture into
opening up an Etsy store, it's really simple.
I'll leave a link to setting that up
in the description box below.
I've had a couple over the years, they do take a commission
but then you have an automatic huge audience to market to.
There's also Amazon handmade
and there's even a Facebook marketplace.
I've also seen people selling their products directly
on Tik Tok, on Instagram, on Facebook.
So social media is a really fantastic way
to get your product out there.
I'd also highly recommend having your own website
from the beginning, it's not very expensive.
You can buy your domain, set up a WordPress site,
you can install that, get someone to help you.
And then you can sell products right there
through something like Shopify, which you can connect
to right to your WordPress site and sell directly.
Even if you don't want to sell directly from your site
it's always good to have kind of your own home base,
that's your very own that isn't part of social media.
I'd recommend though definitely marketing your product
through social media,
it's such a fantastic tool.
My business now the DIY Mommy is based solely
off of social media.
So I definitely know that you can create a business
using social media as your marketing tool.
Tik Tok is huge right now.
And if the target demographic you want to sell
to is gen Zed, millennial, even gen X is on there right now,
you might want to get on Tik Tok
and start showing behind the scenes video
of how you're making your Cricut products,
showing your finished product
and seeing what kind of reaction you get there.
So those are my five steps
on how to start a handmade business with Cricut.
If you've ever thought of doing this, I think there is a lot
of opportunity out there to make products
and sell them locally or online.
Thanks again to Cricut for sponsoring this video.
Let me know down in the comments below
what you think of these steps.
If you sell handmade items and I've missed something
I would love to hear your suggestions.
Let everybody know the tips and tricks
you have for selling handmade items.
We will love to hear them.
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