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Working ON your business and working IN your business

Working ON your business and working IN your business

If I were to ask you right now to tell me your plans for growing your business would you be able to tell me? Not just your plans for fulfilling orders and making sales but your plans for GROWING your sales. How will you find more customers, sell more products, make...
It’s all just FEEDBACK

It’s all just FEEDBACK

What if I said that the majority of the problems and difficulties you are facing in your handmade or art business at this moment in time are all linked? What if I said that they are the result of one small error? What if I said that none of them could even start to get fixed before you correct this error? It’s an error that all of us are making every single day. It’s an error that’s completely understandable and completely human and yet completely toxic to your business.

How to manage your handmade business in a recession

How to manage your handmade business in a recession

This year there has been not one, but two shocking election results that have resulted in the world stock markets moving sharply downwards. These shocks have caused people to be very concerned about the economy and, in some cases, fearful for the future. You might be one of those people or you might not. This post is not about politics. It does not matter if those people fearful for the future are right or wrong. It does not matter if their predictions become reality or not.