How One Hour a Week Can Transform Your Handmade Business

How One Hour a Week Can Transform Your Handmade Business

In the thick of running a creative business, it’s easy to get swallowed by the day-to-day.  Orders to pack, emails to answer, social media to post. It’s busy busy busy and it never stops.  But being busy isn’t the same as growing your business. And not all tasks have...
How to Put Your Handmade Business on Vacation Mode (While Keeping Sales Ticking Over)

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 be a better business owner

How to be a better business owner

As makers we’re all good at making gorgeous things (yes, even you with the imposter syndrome) But when we start to try to build a business out of our work, there are a lot of new skills to learn.  The good news is that, just like we learned the practical skills that...
The benefits of starting your holiday prep early

The benefits of starting your holiday prep early

  For most maker businesses the Christmas and holiday season is both a blessing and a curse. The stakes are high because a good Christmas season can help to cushion the quieter times that come in the beginning of the year and keep your bills paid until people are in a...