Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
Writing things down is the most important part of business planning and goal setting. In the last 4 weeks we’ve talked a bit about business planning and goal setting. Have you been thinking about what your plans and goals are? More importantly, have you been writing things down? Most people don’t and that’s a HUGE …
Sometimes business planning involves working backwards in order to set goals for your handmade or creative business. Wondering how this works? Business planning and goal setting are often tough things to do. Mainly because we tend to set vague goals for ourselves and our business. How to work backwards to set your business goals. One …
Increasing traffic, subscribers, and customers is how you grow your income to boost your bottom line. We all know that. But, where do these new subscribers and customers come from? That’s the tough part. Welcome to Week 3 of our Business Planning challenge! In Week 1 we talked about how planning is the “secret” to …
Business planning involves knowing where you’re at right now in order to measure growth and figure out what you should be working on. If you’re ready to take your handmade business to the next level (whether it’s through baby steps or explosive growth) over the coming months, it’s important to stop and look at where …
Business planning is the secret to the success of your handmade or creative business. Do you set aside time regularly to plan out what it is that you want to do in your business? Over the next seven weeks, I want to share some tips with you that may help you with this whole business …
When you create an overall budget for your business, your Revenue and Expense budgets get “married” – so to speak. Together they can tell you all kinds of wonderful financial things about your business including: what your fair hourly wage is (or should be!), how much you should be setting aside for taxes, helps you to …
Creating an expense budget for your creative or handmade business helps you not only make the dollars you spend work for you, but also prevents your dollars from flying out the door! It also provides you with the amount of your fixed costs that you need to pay each month or year – even IF …
Creating a budget for your handmade or creative biz isn’t all that hard – but it does take time! Last week we talked about how a budget: is more than just saying “NO” to buying that wonderful soft, squish yarn that was on sale (when you already have close to $2,000.00 worth of yarn in …
Does your handmade or creative biz need a budget? Maybe you just finished up your bookkeeping for last year, looked at your numbers, and were appalled at the amount of money you spent in certain categories – Inventory perhaps? Maybe, you looked at your ending inventory balance, discovered it was close to $2,000.00! Did you …