Your handmade biz website, SEO & Social Media
Your handmade biz website, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social media – how do they all tie together? Getting people to your website should be your #1 priority – right? To say that it’s all sort of confusing is an understatement – but let’s have a look, shall we? As handmade an/or creative biz owners, …
Am I serious about helping handmade business owners learn bookkeeping?
Am I serious about helping handmade business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping? Believe it or not, but last week I was asked this question in an Instagram direct message. The question came from someone who has one of those private Instagram accounts. The question was asked because they felt I wasn’t present enough on …
Income in Your Handmade Business: What Makers Need to Know
Income sounds simple until your handmade business has money coming in from product sales, patterns, classes, sales tax, ad revenue, affiliate commissions, and who knows what else. This post explains what makers need to know about tracking income clearly, why sales tax collected is not income, and why dumping every dollar into one big “Sales” bucket can make your reports tell a very messy story.
8 Free Bookkeeping Programs for Creative Businesses
A list of 8 Free Bookkeeping & Accounting software programs (originally compiled in July 2020) that may be suitable for handmade or creative businesses. Choosing a bookkeeping program and developing a system for your handmade or creative business can be a daunting task. I talked a little about this a couple of weeks ago, in …
