It’s a dream that so many makers share: Quitting the 9-5 full time job to craft full time. Or maybe right now you are weighing your options in an uncertain time with kids that may or may not be physically going back to school. While working at home can be an amazing way to raise …
Growing Your Business
With back to school time here, teachers are likely well into prepping their classrooms and materials for their new students. If you sell digital goods, consider opening a shop at Teachers Pay Teachers. What is Teachers Pay Teachers? As the name suggests, Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace for teachers to sell digital goods …
Is your business slower than usual right now? There’s no need to panic, because all businesses experience ups and downs. In fact, slow times can be beneficial because you can get a few extra tasks done. Today, I’m sharing some ideas of things you can do to keep yourself busy during slower business periods. 30 …
What do you do when your business is going well, you are getting regular orders, you have happy customers, quality products, growing social media numbers, and an awesome website – but you still want more? You start working to scale your craft business. Today I’m sharing 9 ways you can scale your craft business. 9 …
Let’s build on my recent post on goals. Hopefully by now you’ve had time to draft up a few business goals for your Silhouette or Cricut business. If not – do that first – then come back here and work through this post. I see this happen the beginning of every year: Everyone sets a …
Know that you have to set goals for your craft business, but not sure what kind of goals to set? Today, I’m sharing a list of goal ideas for craft businesses. 25+ Goal Ideas for Craft Businesses Financial Goal Ideas for Craft Businesses Marketing Goal Ideas for Craft Businesses Growth Goal Ideas for Craft Businesses …
An overwhelmed craft business owner reached out to me recently and told me that she needed help saying ‘no’ to fundraiser organizers who kept asking for donations for various events and charities. This is pretty common in the handmade world, as crafters and designers are often happy to donate items in exchange for the advertisement …
Previously, I’ve talked about basic copywriting tactics to use in your Silhouette or Cricut small business. Today, let’s look at some calls to action. A call to action is the words you use to get your customer to do something. The something could be click a button, buy a product, like your Facebook page, share …
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, multiple streams of income before. Lots of business people throw it around on blogs, articles, and podcasts. If you haven’t, picture an octopus in your head with eight different tentacles. At the end of each tentacle, imagine one way that your small business earns money. This is what is …