Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
Helping handmade, creative and craft business owners learn to handle their bookkeeping, one step at a time!
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Congratulations! You’ve started a handmade or creative business. That’s so awesome :-) I bet you’ve watched a ton of webinars, taken a bunch of courses, and watched a lot of videos all explaining just how EASY it is to start a creative biz. Did any of the things you watched tell you about all of the hours you’ll spend on things that have nothing to do with your finished item or service?
10 things you should know about starting a handmade business that I’m betting no one has ever told you. Have you watched countless videos and signed up for a ton of courses on starting and running a handmade business. I know I did when I started my handmade biz several years ago. They all made it sound so easy didn’t …
Now that you have your shiny new handmade checking account, are you wondering how to use it and what you need to keep track of? I’m not trying to be mean, but so many people these days have no idea how to use that paper register book that comes with a checking account. According to my granddaughters (ages 18 and …
How to find a bank for your handmade business will probably require you to do some research and it may cost some money up front. But honestly, that’s just part of being a business owner. Opening a business checking account makes your handmade business legitimate and keeps your personal money totally out of the picture. It also makes your bookkeeping …
Does my handmade business need a separate bank account? That’s a question I see a lot. My answer is YES! One of the first steps to a successful bookkeeping system is to set up a separate bank account just for your business “stuff”. Having a bank account for your handmade business makes it so much easier to keep track of …
A free handmade business resource library, containing all of the spreadsheet tools that I’ve shown in various posts here on the blog. A few weeks ago, someone (I’ll call her Kim) sent me an email via the Contact Us form here on the site asking for a copy of the Use Tax Tracking Spreadsheet that I talked about in this …
Website problems can totally stress you out. One big issue is, where do you turn when you have problems with your site? When your website is the home of your online business there are a lot of parts and pieces that can require you to seek help: an update to either WordPress or a plug-in can break EVERYTHING a theme …
A list of 8 Free Bookkeeping & Accounting software programs 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 The Bookkeeping system for your handmade business – What do …
Oh, the things I’ve learned being a business owner for 30+ years! Many of those things would make you cringe, so I’ll leave those out of this post. I’m going to keep it to the 5 most important things I’ve learned, in no specific order. Here are the 5 things I’ve learned as a business owner. You can’t please all …