6 Emails Every Maker Should Be Sending
You sit down to email your list and your mind goes blank. Here are six ordinary, useful emails any handmade business can send, so you never have to wait for big news again
How to Run Your Handmade Business Like a Boss (Even If You’re Doing It All Yourself)
You've heard "work on your business, not just in it" but what does that actually mean? Here's a practical monthly routine for makers: four areas to review and specific questions to ask.
How to Make the Most of A Quiet Season in Your Handmade Business
Make the most of the quiet season in your handmade business with strategic projects that build business foundations. Five specific ways to make progress even when it feels overwhelming.
Why You Never Get to the Important Work (And How to Change That)
Struggling to get important work done in your handmade business? This practical approach helps you stop procrastinating and make consistent progress.
Why goal-setting doesn’t work for makers (and what to do instead)
If you've ever sat down in January, written out a big list of everything you want to achieve, felt really motivated for about two weeks, and then watched the whole thing collapse ... you'd be forgiven for thinking that maybe goal-setting just isn't for you.
But I don't think that's quite right.
I think goal-setting can work really well for makers. The problem is that we're usually trying to do it against a massive headwind, and that headwind makes everything harder than it needs to be.
How to Take a Real Christmas Break as a Handmade Business Owner (Without Forgetting Everything)
If you're reading this while half-watching something on TV, or while the kettle boils, or during a "quick five minutes" that you carved out of Christmas Day... I see you. Makers don't really switch off. Not fully. And especially not at Christmas. You might be...
The 30-Minute Year-End Review for Artists, Makers & Handmade Businesses
Here's something I see all the time: makers who feel like they're working incredibly hard, year after year, but somehow end up in the same place, wondering why all that effort isn't showing up in their bank account. When you're deep in the day-to-day of running a...
How to Do a Studio Tidy Up When You Don’t Have Any Time
Coming back to a chaotic studio, a full tidy-up eats the day you needed for orders and making. Here's a five-step speed tidy that clears enough space to get back to work today and sorts the rest gradually.
How One Hour a Week Can Transform Your Handmade Business
One protected hour a week is enough to grow your handmade business. Midweek Momentum is a simple Wednesday ritual that carves out time for the marketing, planning, and creative work that usually gets pushed aside.
How to Put Your Handmade Business on Vacation Mode (While Keeping Sales Ticking Over)
When it’s time to step away from your business - whether for a weekend away, a Christmas break, or a few weeks of summer holidays with the kids - there’s a way to do it that doesn’t require switching everything off or losing the momentum you’ve worked so hard to build.
With just a little bit of forward planning you could still be making sales
How to set and actually make progress on) your goals when you don’t have consistent working hours
what do you do if your life and business hours are inconsistent, unpredictable or just unconventional and you still want to grow your creative business? Here’s how to set goals that actually work for the life you have — even when your working time is anything but consistent.