A highly accessible and encouraging book on setting up a woodworking business but the advice can be used for any craft set up. It covers branding, marketing, pricing etc. It's a good overall book for beginners

I didn’t really find much use out of this book quite honestly. I feel like the information is all google-able and It's not visually appealing either.

Woodworking Business How to Make Six Figures Selling Your Wood Crafts and Projects is a short general information tutorial guide with tips for launching and marketing woodcrafts by Alyssa and Garrett Garner. Due out 15th Aug 2024, it's ~138 pages and will be available in ebook format. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links throughout.

The authors have a number of booklets available for different business models (Etsy, candlemaking, marketing, credit lines, etc) and all of them are based on the authors' business model - Make Six Figures Selling ____. They do offer entrepreneurs some very general advice about improving skills, setting up a workshop, suggested lists of tools, and building up a business. It's VERY general, easily found advice, common sense really.

There certainly have been craftsmen who have become very successful, but the whole "get rich quick" guides from scraped material from the internet compiled in similar format booklets is disconcerting. It's absolutely not beyond the bounds of possibility that readers could glean some useful info here, but the general theme is: keep practicing your craft and acquire skills and then sell lots of whatever you make at the highest possible price.

Handcrafted goods take *time* to make. The current end-stage capitalist hellscape rewards shoddy cheap materials, "shrinkflation", and mass produced crap over handcrafted goods. There absolutely are artists making some sort of living doing what they love, but there's no get-rich-quick solution. It feels like the authors took an e-learning course to "write ebooks and get rich quick" and this is the result.

Two stars. Highly dubious advice presented in a prepackaged format.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.