I want to talk about the recent Supreme Court copyright case involving the photographer Lynn Goldsmith. You might have heard of it, especially if you run in more artistic circles, but you probably read all about it from the perspective of the work of its more famous plaintiff, Andy Warhol. In an opinion piece in …
If you’ve been on social media this week, you may have noticed posts about an Etsy Seller Strike. Etsy sellers are boycotting the platform this week to protest Etsy’s latest round of fee increases. Not surprisingly, I have a lot of thoughts on this, so I went ahead and created this video: View this …
Three years ago, I founded my online mentorship program, Artists and Profit Makers. But you might be surprised to know that wasn’t the original idea for the name. I originally toyed with calling the community High-End Handmade. But something about that name never quite rang true for me. Yes, it encapsulated the idea that I …
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And how far can you really reduce expenses in your handmade business? A few weeks ago, a member of Artists & Profit Makers shared her expenses and profit margin inside the forums and asked if anyone in the group had any ideas for further reducing her expenses. What followed was one of the most frank …
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I recently had an interesting discussion in a Facebook group I’m a part of. Someone in the group had pulled hourly average incomes for a range of professions, including crafters and artists, and began comparing them to other professions, such as doctors. This resulted in her posing an interesting question – if the average engineer …