Most artists and makers I know would love to sell more online. After all, it’s kind of the sweet spot of selling your work – you don’t have to stand outside in a tent in the rain or blazing sun hawking your wares and you get to keep your full retail price. Yet selling your …
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Up until this year, I was a self-described black thumb. The few houseplants I’d owned in my life all died spectacular deaths and my garden is an overgrown mess of weeds. And while I loved the idea of plants, I thought they just weren’t meant for me, resigned instead to a life of faux plastic …
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“Be a producer, not a consumer.” I gave a version of this advice I in this post on how to cope with social media burnout in your business. Yet when someone in Artists & Profit Makers shared it back to me during a recent call, it felt hollow. You see, there’s a problem with giving …
On a recent Q&A call for my online mentorship program, Artists & Profit Makers, we were having a conversation about the best ways to connect with customers. One member shared that she almost never emailed her list, despite having over 1000 subscribers. (The result of connecting with customers at craft shows over the years.) After …
In my last post, I mentioned the importance of owning your content or owning your audience. And for my money, there’s no better way to own your content than posting it to your own blog. But whenever I encourage artists and makers to blog, I often hear the same excuses. “I’m a terrible writer.” “I …
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