I talked about signs that it might be time to close your craft business. Today, let’s look at what you need to do to actually close your craft business. You’ve got two options: 1) Liquidate your supplies and inventory, or 2) Sell your business. In general, if your business is not profitable (you aren’t making …
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Today, I’m sharing some signs that it might be time to close your craft business. Honestly, this post is hard to write. I blog about starting craft businesses and running and growing craft businesses. And I truly want everyone to succeed. However, I have to be realistic – running a craft business isn’t for everyone …
Remember those posts on passive income from earlier in the year? (See this post, this one, and this one.) To refresh your memory, passive income is money that you earn without actively being involved. I think it is a great addition to any online business. Last week, I posted a tutorial for an etched glass …
As the years go on, the competition between Silhouette and Cricut leads them to each make improvements and innovations to their electronic cutting machines. Today, let’s look at the pros and cons between Silhouette’s Cameo 3 and Cricut’s Maker. A similar post appeared on Cutting for Business in early 2016, but this version is updated …
If you’ve been around Cutting for Business for a while, you’ll remember that we had our house on the market to sell. It hasn’t sold. Since school is about to start, we pulled it off the market after 60 days and will try again next summer. But, I rearranged some rooms to make life easier …
I love dingbats – dingbat fonts that is! If you read yesterday’s post, you saw that you can use dingbat fonts to create your own cut files. Today, I’ve compiled a list of 30 free dingbat fonts that include commercial use. (Of course, this means you can use them in products for sale. For more …
I truly believe that informed business owners make for better business owners. This post isn’t going to make me popular with Silhouette or Cricut, but that’s ok with me. Cutting for Business is an independent website that it not part of either Graphtec/Silhouette America or Provo Crafts/Cricut. Today, I’m tackling something I see rumored online …
What is a post about leggings doing on the Cutting for Business blog? Well, it all started when Kay from Clever Someday gifted me a pair of Silhouette Cameo themed leggings at the All Things Silhouette Conference. I loved them and posted a picture of me wearing them to Instagram and the crafting world went …
Update: Texture was purchased by Apple and no longer exists. I still find magazines a great source of inspiration and trends. ———————- I’ve mentioned before that I keep a healthy number of subscriptions to various crafting and home related magazines, as well as business publications. As a small business owner, flipping through magazines is an …