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Whether you’ve been an Etsy seller for five years or five months, you probably had dreams for your business before discovering Etsy. What were they? Did you always dream of selling your crafts, and Etsy made that possible? Did discovering Etsy help you realize a dream you never knew you had? Or has running an …
Last night, Chris Brogan shared a link on Twitter to Worldreader – a non-profit whose mission is to bring books to the developing world through e-readers. Right now, they’re conducting initial trials using the Kindle. I LOVE this idea, and I wanted to make a donation (even if it was a small one) right on …
When you’re self-employed and running a creative business, it’s really easy to be lax when it comes to routine. You can structure your days however you want. You can do what you’d like when you feel like it (or so many people seem to think). You don’t have to conform to a normal working day, …
Over at The Creative Empire, people have been talking about all the reasons why we haven’t hired someone to help out in our business yet. It seems like, for many of us, we make hiring help into a much bigger deal than it has to be. And yet every day, plenty of businesses, SMALL businesses, …