A weekly roundup of craft, design, and business related news and links:
My First Year of Full-Time Crafting: Ten Things I Learned the Hard Way – Must read post from the Etsy forums about one person’s first year of full-time employment as a crafter. (I found the part about keeping tabs on your competition incredibly useful.)
How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing – Incredibly detailed post about using Facebook for your business.
There’s No Magic Bullet: The Cumulative Effects of Growing Your Brand – How all those little things you do add up over time to create bigger things for your business.
How to Stop Screwing Around and Really Quit Your Day Job – It’s more possible than you think.
How To Get Over Your Marketing Hangups – Great advice for anyone who struggles with talking about their business or their products.
In Search of Motivation – Jeweler Danielle Miller shares her experiences feeling less than motivated, and how she’s trying to get past it.
When you are the brand – It’s still about providing value for your customers.
E-commerce strategy: that’s not your business – What are you really selling?
Consumer debt is not your friend – This might be more personal advice than business, but when Seth Godin writes, I listen.
Thank you so much for including my post in your round up! I’m a regular reader, so I’m really flattered.
Such a great round up. I really enjoy seeing these posts because you do such a great job on honing in valuable, quality information, thank you!
Thanks for some great posts this week – especially love the link to the Piddix article today on Etsy – she is a star!
Fiona
Megan, As I mentioned to you on twitter today, I haven’t had time to keep up with my blog reading…so I’m just finding this now. Thanks for the shout out! I wish I was half as motivated and organized as you! 🙂