Today I’m excited to share a guest post from Tara Swiger. Tara’s sharing her secrets for creating multiple streams of income around your craft – a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. Thanks, Tara! Sell your handmade work for any amount of time, you will discover one cold hard fact: you can only …
One of the best things about attending art school is that your creativity and design voice are pushed in ways that you could have never imagined. One of the worst things about attending art school is that you tend to develop a complex where you think that everything you design is bad. (At the very …
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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 …
If I had to pick a theme for this week, it would be the importance of multiple revenue streams. The Daily Worth talked about why having multiple income streams is a smart idea in an unstable economy. Then Tara mentioned that Darren Rowse shared a breakdown of his varied revenue streams over at ProBlogger. And …
When you’re just starting out wanting to sell the products you make, Etsy is an obvious first choice. It’s low cost, low risk, and it lets you test the waters of the marketplace. Add to that a growing legion of fans and a built in sense of community and there are plenty of reasons to …