Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
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 …
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 …
Are you feeling burnt out? If so, it’s time to stop and take some time for you! WHEW, I don’t know about you, but the last 3 months have left me feeling pretty burnt out – leaving me feeling exhausted and having trouble concentrating. For many handmade and creative business owners, having our own business …
What are your goals for your handmade/creative biz in 2020?? You may think that’s a silly question, but with yearend quickly approaching it seems to be one that is being talked about – A LOT – in many of the Facebook groups that I belong to. Some popular goals for handmade/creative businesses that I’ve seen …
Running a handmade or creative business involves a lot of time, energy, and effort. Today, I’d like to share my 3 favorite tools and a tip for getting organized and being more productive. If you’ve been feeling totally disorganized, like you have no focus, and that you have so many things on your plate that …