There are so many challenges involved in running a handmade business and for many of them, we can’t really see them coming or know what kind of impact they’ll have on our business. Banking crises, Global Financial Meltdown, Brexit, Inflation, Consumer Confidence....
I bang on about this all the time but, seriously, having a mailing list is the single best thing you can do for your business, right now, TODAY. Sometimes creating a business around the things that you make can seem completely overwhelming. It can seem really...
The term “brand” often brings up a lot of emotion for makers but whatever you might feel about the term, it’s important to think about the perceptions that people have about your products because your little creative business lives and dies by how well it can attract...
“There has never been a better time to set up your own online store, so that you can sell to your customers online. Why? Because the technology is getting easier and more accessible all the time. Because craft fairs have become tougher and tougher over the past few...
Advertising is very mysterious to most of us. There isn’t a great deal of information out there about what it should cost or what we should expect to get from it, and it can be tempting to just “give it a go.” And while to some extent it’s true that the best way to...
For the most part, unless you are selling very low priced, impulse purchase products, your customers are unlikely to buy from you the very first time they see you. This is especially true if you are selling expensive or very large sized products. Your customers may...
