- Are my customers beginning scrapbookers, ongoing scrapbookers, expert scrapbookers, or scrapbookers likely to quit scrapbooking?
- How am I using word of mouth to attract more customers and attract more people to scrapbooking?
- How am I reaching people who scrapbook but that do not identify as scrapbookers?
- What topics are my customers scrapbooking? How am I serving these topical needs?
- How do my customers organize their scrapbooks (e.g., chronologically or thematically)? How am I meeting the needs of these different organizational styles?
- Why am I in the scrapbook industry? Why am I considering entering the scrapbook industry?
- How is my business adapting to the evolving nature of the scrapbook industry?
- How do I learn about how the scrapbook industry is evolving? Am I using scrapbook market research? Am I doing my own scrapbook market research?
- How am I going to make money in the scrapbook industry?
- Are there any niche markets I want to serve in the scrapbook industry? How do I plan to do this?
This post is part of Shimelle Laine’s 10 Things.
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Stephanie

Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.

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