handmade business tips Archives : Page 9 of 17 : The Maker's Business Toolkit

Is the Maker’s Yearbook right for you?

Is the Maker’s Yearbook going to work for me if……? This is the single most common question we get asked about the yearbook, and it’s the single most common question we get asked while the yearbooks are for sale.

How To Set Boundaries With Your Customers

Are you a people pleaser? Do you hate saying no to your customers? Do you hate saying no to anyone? I think a lot of makers, especially those in the first few years of business, find it really hard to set boundaries with customers.

Why Planners Don’t Work

Okay, admit it. How many planners do you have around the house that you never even opened? How many do you have that you used for a couple of weeks and then you just lost momentum and put them away, never to be used again? You’re not alone. We’ve all got a million...

How to create one year’s worth of blog post ideas in the next 15 minutes

Blogging can be a bit of a headache, can’t it? What do you write about? What’s the point of it all? How is it different from social media or email newsletters? Although email marketing, social media and blogging are all ways of marketing your business, they each...

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...