{"id":729,"date":"2016-04-04T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/?p=729"},"modified":"2016-09-27T04:59:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T04:59:25","slug":"starting-a-calligraphy-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2016\/04\/04\/starting-a-calligraphy-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a Calligraphy Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get started in a calligraphy business? I don\u2019t have all the details, but I do know that you\u2019ll need to determine exactly what you want to do with your skills. I thought I\u2019d jot down the different kinds of ways we can apply our calligraphy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create clipart and sell online through shutterstock.com, fotolia.com, istockphoto.com, and similar sites.<\/li>\n<li>Create custom gift pieces and sell online at etsy.com.<\/li>\n<li>Sell small services or pieces at fiverr.com.<\/li>\n<li>Create popular phrases and market them on mugs, apparel, and other gift items through zazzle.com and similar sites.<\/li>\n<li>Do personalized framed or unframed certificates, poetry, notes, letters, quotes.Do diplomas and degrees for learning institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Do wedding invitations and the associated paper pieces that go with it.<\/li>\n<li>Submit work for the movie industry.<\/li>\n<li>With knowledgeable graphic design skills, apply your calligraphy to full design services.<\/li>\n<li>Teach calligraphy classes or tutor individuals &#8211; post a job at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guru.com\/d\/freelancers\/q\/calligraphy\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guru.com\/d\/freelancers\/q\/calligraphy\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Write how-to books on calligraphy.<\/li>\n<li>Create bound calligraphy art books or custom books.<\/li>\n<li>Produce calligraphy-related video(s) and sell on disc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thought I would do a quick search on the Internet for more ideas. I really hit the jackpot &#8212; this page has over 200 uses for calligraphy! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowrosevillage.com\/WillowroseCalligraphy\/uses.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.willowrosevillage.com\/WillowroseCalligraphy\/uses.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this Reddit page, a calligrapher shares his (or her) insightful questions to ask regarding starting a calligraphy business:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Calligraphy\/comments\/53umr3\/question_business\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Calligraphy\/comments\/53umr3\/question_business\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you decided to practice calligraphy as a part-time or full-time business? How would you specialize?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get started in a calligraphy business? I don\u2019t have all the details, but I do know that you\u2019ll need to determine exactly what you want to do with your skills. I thought I\u2019d jot down the different &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/2016\/04\/04\/starting-a-calligraphy-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevehusting.com\/calligraphy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}