Helping handmade business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
Sales tax laws are changing quickly – and as a handmade business owner you need to know the rules about economic nexus and be prepared! You may have heard or read about South Dakota vs. Wayfair, Inc. and sort of just dismissed it for any number of reasons – but it is a really big deal. Under this …
Sales Tax tracking could (and probably will) get way more complicated for your handmade business. On Thursday June 21, 2018 the Supreme Court passed a law in which every state who has not already done so may now pass laws requiring all online retailers to collect sales tax and remit it to the state where the customer …
Another important aspect of email etiquette is to be concise and professional. Stop and think about a paper document, where it is absolutely essential to make everything completely clear, because your audience will not have a chance to ask for clarification. With email, text and even Facebook posts, your recipient can ask questions immediately. Like …
Manners & tone play a HUGE part of email etiquette. Communication is approximately 90% body language, 8% tone of voice, and the final 2% is actually what you have to say. With email we remove the first 98%, when we actually stop and think about it. Be aware of this when you write an email. …
Email etiquette and making a GOOD first impression are so important for your handmade business. Let’s start by comparing the various ways that we initially meet our potential customers. Making a good first impression in a traditional meeting: Let’s say you are exhibiting at a craft fair, people are coming into your booth space and …
Let’s start with email etiquette basics and why it’s important in your handmade business. It’s amazing to find in this day of technology and it’s high reliance on email and text messaging as a standard means of communication that some businesses still do not realize just how important their communications are. In the business world …
Email etiquette in your handmade business is SO important! Whether you love or hate email it’s here to stay – we can’t avoid it – but there is a lot to email etiquette that people just don’t seem to stop and think about. Now, I’m not talking about the email newsletter subscriptions that you’ve signed …
I recorded the webinar, so you can watch the replay. Here are the 10 things we’ll be talking about: 8 Things other webinars aren’t telling you! Sure, you’ve attended other webinars – but did your hosts tell you about these 8 things that aren’t glamorous? How does the IRS view handmade businesses? Hobby vs. business – learn …
Handmade business OVERWHELM! A topic that few people discuss, mainly because everyone seems to want to lead you to believe that running a handmade business is EASY – and they focus on the glamour of owning and running your own business. Well, I’m different – I’m brutally honest. Owning a handmade business isn’t for the …
Tracking income and expenses by venue or customer and the various jobs/projects you do for them is something every handmade business owner will want or need to do at some point. After all, we want to know which craft fair we spent the most money on and the amount of money that we made from …
Tracking sales tax in your handmade business can be a total pain and it could get worse! On Tuesday 4/17/18 the Supreme Court took up the battle between states and web retailers over the collection and remittance of Sales Tax and this could result in small business owners have to collect and remit Sales Tax …
Sometimes our best laid plans often go down the drain. That’s what happened to me this week. Like many of you I have a a demanding “other” job and sometimes that interfere’s with EVERYTHING and my plans just go down the drain. If you have a job in addition to your handmade business or if …