Helping handmade & creative business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping with confidence!
Feeling like your bookkeeping is a MESS? Need to clean it up BEFORE tax time rolls around? You aren’t alone. I was chatting with a handmade business owner the other day who told me: I’m great at cranking out products and scheduling craft fairs. I’m scrambling at tax time. I have no sense of my …
Are you REALLY ready to run a handmade or creative biz? Chances are you’ve read about how easy it is to become your own boss and have spent more hours than you care to admit fantasizing about becoming a handmade or creative biz owner – but, have you stopped to ask yourself if you’re REALLY …
Time tracking, the art of keeping detailed records of the amount of time you spend on EVERYTHING you do in your business. As handmade or creative business owners we tend to think that time tracking is only important when we are working on a project. That’s just not true. Time tracking is important and we …
Keeping on track of your numbers (finances) determines your success or failure. If you are constantly avoiding your bookkeeping you’ll never get a handle on your financial numbers. Bookkeeping & how to overcome your fear of numbers Bookkeeping & how to overcome your fear of numbers is this weeks topic, because I hear things like …
Tools, Apps & Tips for going digital in a paper world is our topic this week. Going digital in a paper world can create quite a few stumbling blocks – change can be difficult and you do need to be organized! Sometimes the stumbling blocks happen because we just can’t wrap our heads around the …
Internet safety is often overlooked, you need to protect yourself and your information in this online world that we live in. The internet is a wonderful thing – it puts a ton of information at our fingertips and allows us to come into contact with people from all over the world. We’re no longer limited …
Spreadsheets – I really do love them and I use them for a LOT of behind the scenes things in both my handmade business and here on yarnybookkeeper.com. Spreadsheets are versatile and there are lot of different ways that they can be used without the huge learning curve of creating mathematical formulas, macro’s, pivot tables, …
Tax preparer, business advisor, accountants and bookkeepers are all terms that you’ll hear in the business world. These terms are quite confusing to any business owner – not just a creative or handmade business owner. In this article I’ll provide you with information about each of these professionals and what they do. The term “Tax …
Choosing a business structure for your handmade (creative) biz is one of the first things you should do. You should also keep in mind that the legal structure you choose impacts everything – and I do mean EVERYTHING! You will need to research the different types of business structures that there are (I’ll give you …
10 things EVERY handmade & creative business owner should know! 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 …