top of page
Writer's pictureTori McElwain

How to Find Your Next Customers for Quilting Businesses

Season 2 of Quilting on the Side was full of great information for finding your next customers. Are you looking for students for your workshops? Clients for your longarming business? Or maybe you're looking to expand your customer base to sell your quilt patterns? Either way, this Playlist is for you!



Feel free to listen in while you're commuting, planning, doing menial tasks, baking, sewing, creating, or secretly at your day job (wait...that just might be us!):


Playlist:

How to Find Your Next Customers!


Journey to Longarm Mastery- Our Chat with Brandie Nelson - Brandie is a longarm quilter and has an in-depth discussion with us on how she maintains and finds new customers for her longarming business.


Quilts and Travel - our chat with Sherri Noel - Sherri has a wonderful way of combining her business with travel. She does share how she pivoted and how easy it was to find others who wanted to do a quilting-themed trip.


Show up with purpose - networking at a trade show - Trade shows are an amazing way to grow a customer base through networking and collaboration. You can establish relationships with distributors, sponsors, and colleagues to grow your customer base. In this episode, you'll learn how Tori prepared to show up at h+h Americas.


Quilting on Video - our chat with Kris O'Neill - Kris O'Neill uses YouTube as her main platform to bring in new customers. Could YouTube be an avenue for you? Listen in to hear how Kris does it.

Teamwork! The Power of Collaborations - Collaboration is one of the BEST ways to bring in new customers. In this episode, we discuss why and how to participate or host your own collaborations!


Teachers Gotta Teach - our chat with Lyric Kinard - Are you looking for more students? You can find a wealth of students online. In this discussion, we talk to Lyric about her own journey to moving her workshops online and how she began the Global Quilt Connection and the Academy for Virtual Teaching.


Stitching a business - our chat with Darla Hall - Darla, a longarm quilter, discusses how she began her business of custom quilting and teaching longarm quilting classes. She gives some great insight on finding customers in your local area.


Blog Bonus

Looking for more reading material? We have a few more resources on our blog designed for quilt business owners!


Bonus Blog Post: Growing a Longarm Business with Brandie Nelson



Do you know a Quilter or Crafter who would find this useful? We'd Love for you to share! 

 

 

Listen to all 36 episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or watch on YouTube 

Please leave a review on your favorite Podcast Hosting Platform, it helps other Quilting Businesses find the Quilting on the Side Podcast! Thank you!

Want to hear more? Don't miss an episode - subscribe to our newsletter, here!


Need more support in our business? Join our Patreon, here.


 

7 views0 comments

Comentários


bottom of page