Choosing Woodworking As A One Person Business

There are several reasons for running your wood-shop solo. This article is about exploring the potential of a one-person woodworking business and how you can still manage to grow and expand your work. Learn about the advantages and dis-advantages of running a workshop yourself.

Shining Spectacular Brand Image In 7 Steps

The steps of branding depend on the nature of your business. For example, certain branding steps differ if you are selling your crafts online as compared to selling them through a physical shop. However, this difference is less every day because online presence is becoming ever important to get the word for your business out……

Why Branding Makes Much More Money For You

Creating a brand image is the best things you can do for your work. You will make many times more money for the same amount of work. Branding is about creating an identity for your work and for yourself as a professional. This can be accomplished in so many ways and the effort yields results many times over.

How To Choose The RIght Setup For Your Business

There are 3 main aspects to deciding the kind of business you want to start – the physical structure and the legal structure and whether you will start part-time or full-time. The physical structure of the business What shape and form that you want your business to physically take in this world? Will it be a……

How To Visualize Key Goals Before You Start Your Art And Craft Business

Being in a craft business as is as easy as making your first sale. Most of the crafters and the majority of home-based start-ups have their own family and friends as their first customers. By that definition, you may already be in business. The first thing that you need to do is visualise the kind……

9 Reasons You Should Start An Art And Craft Business

There are so many strong reasons in favour of starting an art and craft business. The Forbes printed an article sometime back on how the popularity and demand for all things crafts has surged tremendously. Handmade handicrafts are more popular than ever before. So let’s list a few good points to convince you about this……

Banish 5 Common Myths About Starting A Small Business

We get a lot of emails messages and comments from wonderful crafters with one particular query. How can I make an income from my crafting skill? A lot of them are looking for craft jobs that they can do from home. The number one recommendation we make is to start a craft business. However, the……

7 Reason Why You Should Always Spend Money On Advertising Your Craft Business

We are a strong advocate of starting small and growing your business in as natural a way as possible. We highly recommend that you do this without incurring too much debt, cost and overburdening your finances. However, we always also recommend that you realise the essential expenses that are directly tied to the revenue and……

9 Essential Costs Of Starting a Craft Business

We wrote a post some time back that spoke about the nine essential requirements of starting up a business. One of these requirements was providing for the expenses of setting the business up. In this post we will discuss these expenses in detail and why they are essential to the success of your business start-up.……