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Pricing is a deep subjective topic, so there’s a lot of different advice about it. There have been detailed discussions about it in the past, your best bet is to take some time to read though several of them.
Here are some links about pricing:
With a real, live Glowforge in my front room, I can now make awesomeness to sell. I’m getting nibbles on custom ornaments for business to give to their customers and have little idea how to price them. If you have real-life examples of how you price one-off items and wholesale items, that would be awesome!
To promote my new business and find customers I have been using Instagram. I follow and like posts from Georgia artists, makers, Realtors, etc, and if they follow me back I message them to th…
I think many of us here purchased the glowforge for reasons which include, hobby, new business or expanding on an existing business. I wanted to open a thread to discuss ideas with pricing your projects. Many times when starting a business this is by far one of the hardest things to do so with an open forum like this figured we can all help each other.
I know there are many larger companies out there at least in my state like “Things Remembered” where many of my friends go during holidays and …
15 Tips on Pricing
There’s a lot of chat on here and the facebook group about pricing. I put together these tips to help give some pointers when working out price.
Charge what the customer will pay - not what you would pay - you always undervalue your own work.
Pricing based on time plus materials is usually the wrong way to price.
When calculating costs, include your fixed overheads as well as per item costs.
Don’t forget packing and shipping which can be expensive.
If you are …
I’ve been making things for awhile now and I think that I’m finally getting the hang of things. What i keep running into though is the difficulty of how do I decide on what to charge? I’m all over the page so to speak. I can make a big project in fact I’m working on one. That takes up 20hrs of glowforge time ant 2 hours of prep. But I could also make a bunch of really small things in the time that it takes. So I’m hoping for some advice. Thank you. [20200620_170616]
What are people charging for arcylic earrings. I am a neebie with Glowforge and need some advice.
One of my bosses recently asked me if I could somehow get an engraving of Spider-Ham onto a Pop-Socket for his son.
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I have just the thing I thought… so I did some work, modified the image so it would be better for engraving… ended up actually vectorizing it in a couple of different ways and overlapping to create two different engrave actions that had different settings. In the end I ran 4 or 5 test engraves before coming up with the final. At 5-6 minutes per engrave, my total …
There are even more. If you search for “pricing” or “how to charge” you can find many of them.
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=Pricing
https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=charge%20laser
Good luck with your sales!
Beyond that there are lots of resources about starting and running a business from creative endeavors. Here is a recent post on discord from @Brandon.B :
This is a recent article from our very own @rebekah about turning your creative passion into a profitable business:
Turn your creative passion into a profitable business: success tips from Glowforge SVP, Rebekah Bastian | Digital Entrepreneur
It also touches upon the tie of mental health and creative endeavors. Mental health awareness is one of my passions and I appreciate that it is included in the article.
Then there’s this calculator if you want to try to build a following online:
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