Today I’m so excited to finally announce the launch of my very first ebook – The Crafting an MBA Guide to Wholesale and Trade Shows! I’ve been hard at work the last few months putting together this extremely comprehensive guide to selling your work wholesale and exhibiting at trade shows. I’ve taken everything I’ve learned …
Read more “now available! The CMBA Guide to Wholesale and Trade Shows”
I truly believe there is no one right business model for makers. One of my goals in starting Crafting an MBA is to present the many options that are available to anyone who wants to build a business designing and making products. No one solution will work for everyone, but hopefully by sharing guest posts …
A weekly roundup of craft, design, and business related news and links: Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be – Print it out, post it on your studio wall, and take it to heart. The Lights Are On, But No One’s Home – Tips to make sure you online business really is …
Today I’m so excited to share this guest post from Emma of Showpony. I love Emma’s work and I’m even more excited about the topic she’s talking about: how to design your products so that you can make them by hand but have them produced for you if demand increases. Thanks for sharing Emma! Hi, …
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Whether or not you’re reading along with the CMBA book club, hopefully you saw last week’s post on making your business stick and are thinking of ways to apply these ideas to your business. Its pretty easy to see how the process for making ideas sticky can apply to your marketing efforts, but what if …