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I'm attempting to make my own hangtags. Everywhere I've read, it states that a quality piece of work always has a hangtag, kind of along the lines of a signature. It adds value to the piece. Anyway, what does a hangtag actually include? Should I put the price directly on it? How is a hangtag different from a business card? I make polymer clay vessels and boxes. Thanks in advance!
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I just have the name of the company on the front, and on the back I have the price and the materials that went into the piece (I make jewelry).  I wanted to keep the tags small, so they don't overwhelm the jewelry.  I've been told I should have my contact information on it, but since I include a business card with each purchase, I don't feel that's necessary.
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I have my business name and logo on the front. Inside is care instructions and price. Contact info is on the back.
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6|z p;A\L9[Mwr0E%x My hang tag is also printed on a folded business card. The front has my logo which includes my business name and "Hand Crafted 100% Beeswax" in small letter across the bottom. The back has a statement about beeswax and candle safety. I don't try to use it as a business card. I don't include the price on the tag. Candles are often given as gifts and I don't want the giver to have to cross out the price. I leave the inside blank to be used as a gift card if they like. I use kite string for my tags. I, (usually  my children,) wrap it around a match box about twenty times and cut through all the layers of string in one place with one cut. This gives me strings all the same size that are just long enough._Pn yT
For pricing I use an additional very small plain white hang tag that is store bought. I write the price small with pencil. I take it off as I package the piece for my customer and reuse it. It says something like "kitty $12.00." I now know I need to replace the kitty on display first chance I get.
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It kind of depends on how/where you are going to be selling your pieces.  If you are doing all of your own selling, then go ahead and include your contact info on the hangtag if you wish--give them a business card, too, as you can't give them too much info!  If you are planning to sell through stores or galleries, then you'd probably better leave off the contact info.  A lot of places will remove tags that tell the customer how to contact the artist on their own--then you end up spending time and money on something the customer will never even see.
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My color printer is an ink jet. I have a black and white laser so maybe I can try it for the one side. I would like to put more info about beeswax on the card. Office depot sells the business card without perforations that are just like Avery but in larger packages and cheaper. I use the linen colored, (ivory,) so that limits me too. Not everybody has those. Thanks for your help.
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I make a variety of different things, and each type requires a different tag or label.  One of the things I do is PC covered vessels & eggs.  The vessels I do are usually fairly small, such as baby food jars.  For them I've created a card that folds in half & slips neatly into the jar.  Since the jar is small, it's easy to see the "tag" is in there & the customer can pull it out if they want to read it, although that's more for when they take it home or even give it to someone.  It basically just says what the piece is, any useful information about it, care, my contact info, etc, as well as the price on a removable sticker, at the top so it can be seen w/o removing the card.  I would also put a little stand-up card on display with them that says the same information (no price), so they can read it without removing the cards from the individual jars.  That system could work well for your vessels or boxes, I'd think.  For my PC eggs, I have them in clear plastic boxes, on a string suspended from the inside of the top.  I put a sticker label on one side of the box that has all of the information.
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Other, smaller, things I make, like paper ornaments or gift enclosures, are packaged in little plastic bags with tags stapled to the top.  The front of the tag says what the item is, and has a removable price sticker, and on the back are check boxes for style type & color.  I may also put information on the back of the packaging that talks about the history of the craft.  For notecards that are each packed in a plastic sleeve, I simply have a piece of paper telling what the thing is, a generic description, along with my company name & contact info, stuck into the sleeve behind the card.  I also print information about the card itself, like what the design is, along with my company name & website, directly on the back of the card.  Price tags are stuck to the outside of the sleeve itself.
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G*@6dd{Y-T;~6f It sounds rather complicated, now that I look at it all, but I've worked it out to be pretty simple, actually.  Most of the pieces have generic tags that I've formatted on the computer & cut out en masse.  I have little envelopes for each one, and grab them when I package different things, usually several at a time.  Then, I just stick them or or place them as needed, and with some check boxes to note custom info like styles & colors.  The jewelry tags are the only ones that are custom for each piece, but I do them on the computer, too.  
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My business cards have my contact information on them, and a pic of my work.  
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*{]Tt;B@ My hangtags have my logo on the front and some information about how the work is handcrafted, etc. on the left inside.  On the right inside I handwrite the components of the piece (such as sterling silver, garnet, freshwater pearl) and then I put a sticker with my price and inventory number.  The sticker is great because if someone is buying as a gift, I can remove the sticker but they still have this neat little card, and people *love* to have the information about the stones--I like to use unusual stones, and people can't always remember what those are, later.  On the back is my contact information.
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I run these on biz card stock, fold in half, punch a hole in the corner, and tie them to my jewelry.  I just switched to these tags early this year, and people tell me they love them.  I even had one lady say that the tag helped her decide to buy--she really liked that it added to the "handmade"-ness of the item.
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