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Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone, a free business course on Tomo

Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone

Turn your handmade crochet pieces and home-baked goods into an active micro-business using the Android phone in your pocket. Learn to shoot mouthwatering product photos, price your labor for real profit, and market your creations to local and online buyers.

Like Duolingo, but for Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Your Products Ready to Sell and Finding Buyers and Delivering Orders. It starts from scratch.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Barnaby the Baker Beaver, the guide who teaches the Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone course
Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone
with Barnaby the Baker Beaver
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone

  • Soft, indirect window light reveals fine crochet ridges and pastry shine evenly across the subject
  • Direct sun blows out shiny bakes with glare, while dim indoor lighting causes Android cameras to create grainy digital noise
  • A sheer white curtain or cloudy day diffuses window light so textures look crisp and professional
  • Tapping and holding on an Android screen activates AE/AF lock (auto-exposure and auto-focus lock)
  • Locking onto the brightest part of a bake or white yarn tells the phone not to brighten the whole scene, preserving delicate textures
  • Without locking exposure, Android cameras often automatically brighten scenes, washing out pale craft fibers and light glazes
  • A phone's default 1x lens is slightly wide-angle, which bends and stretches the edges of round bakes and symmetrical plushies up close
  • Stepping back a foot or two and switching to the phone's 2x telephoto lens flattens proportions naturally
  • Using 2x keeps circular pies round and handcrafted plushie features in true proportion for your shop
  • Single-source window light creates deep, murky shadows on the side of the product facing away from the glass
  • Placing an inexpensive white foam board opposite the window bounces light straight back into the shaded side
  • This bounced fill light reveals yarn twists and crust details without needing extra electric lamps
  • Tight close-ups of crumb structure, gooey fillings, and defined yarn stitches communicate freshness and handcraft skill directly
  • Distant flat lays often make handmade textures look flat, generic, and indistinguishable from factory goods
  • Tactile craving is triggered when customers can clearly see the physical depth of a bite or the softness of a stitch
  • Raw yarn and butter costs only cover the physical goods, not the maker's life and work
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Lighting and Focus on Android

Why should you avoid shooting crafts in harsh direct sun or dim indoor light?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

Course map

How to learn Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone, step by step

Go in order. 12 short levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes in all, five minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Making Your Products Ready to Sell

    • Shooting Crafts and Bakes on Android
    • Pricing Handmade Goods for Real Profit
  2. 2

    Finding Buyers and Delivering Orders

    • Packaging, Freshness, and Delivery
    • Marketing and Selling on Mobile

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

Questions

Questions about Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone

  1. How do I learn Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone?

    Go in order: start with Making Your Products Ready to Sell, then Finding Buyers and Delivering Orders. On Tomo that's 12 short levels, about 24 minutes in all, played five minutes a day. Start free and play the first level in under a minute.

  2. Is there a Duolingo-style app for Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone?

    Yes. Tomo works like Duolingo: short daily lessons, streaks and quick quizzes. Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone is one of its free courses, and you can type any other topic to get a course of your own.

  3. Is the Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone course free?

    Yes. Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone is playable on Tomo's free plan, which doesn't expire. No credit card, no waitlist. Download the app and start your first lesson.

  4. How long does it take to learn Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone?

    12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes of play in total. It's built for five minutes a day, so you finish it a little at a time instead of all at once.

  5. Do I need any background to start Selling Crafts and Bakes from Your Phone?

    No. It's pitched at a beginner level, so it starts where you are and builds up. If you can tap a phone, you can start.

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