Hiring for Your Craft Show Business
Thursday, August 30th, 2007By Natalie Goyette The nature of your craft show business and your budget willdetermine whether or not you need others to help you with anyaspect of your craft show business. Needless to say, thesuccess of your crafts at craft shows will also have aconsiderable effect on whether or not you will need to hireemployees. On the “free” end, you can get help from friends and family toproduce your crafts and help with any business aspects. A taxbenefit for “hiring” your children under 18 is that you don’thave to pay social security or medicare taxes if your businessis a sole proprietorship or partnership owned solely by you andyour spouse. Next, you can find students or apprentices to work on yourcrafts for free, or at least inexpensively. Contractors, who youwould just use on occasion when you need extra help, would bethe next level. You also may have friends who want to pick up alittle extra pocket change working on your crafts from home cando some production work for you. A bookkeeper who comes in oncea month to balance your checkbook and enter your income andexpenses is a contractor, and you don’t have to deal with taxes.Check with the IRS or your accountant to be clear about thedifference between independent contractors and employees. If you feel you need employees as your craft show businessgrows, you should consult an accountant or the Small BusinessAdministration for all the regulations. These might involveregistering with the Department of Labor, applying for Worker’sCompensation insurance and securing an employee identificationnumber (EIN) from your state and national government offices.You’ll need to apply for an EIN from the IRS anyway if you’reusing a business name different from your own. When you use yourown name as your business name and you have no employees, yoursocial security number will suffice. You might also want tocheck with your bank, because they may require an EIN to open abusiness account, even if it’s in your own name. Finally, consider which professionals you’ll want to have inyour line-up of support. An accountant and lawyer are good tohave at least to call when issues come up. Many crafters have agood photographer they use for promotional photos and slides oftheir work. Quality slides can make the difference in gettingaccepted to juried craft fairs. You may also occasionally needthe services of a graphic designer to create brochures, hangtagsor other marketing materials and a PR person if you want to takeout ads or run press releases. All of your decisions concerningusing other people to help you succeed are based on your needs,your own abilities and your budget. Everyone needs to make thesechoices for themselves. Natalie Goyette shows you how to make your craft show business profitable in her best selling ebook: Craft Show Success Secrets. Visit her site: Craft Shows Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Natalie_Goyette http://EzineArticles.com/?Hiring-for-Your-Craft-Show-Business&id=75306 one now shining it moment still ncaa where theme all song only sex that incest between purchase only xanax out at where silverchips where mbhs any edu under incest at movie such trailers that top that 100 there incest him