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gaining confidence in your products (and undoing 7 years of art school damage)
Read more: gaining confidence in your products (and undoing 7 years of art school damage)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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guest post: the past, present, and future of your business
Read more: guest post: the past, present, and future of your businessToday I’m excited to share a guest post from Marie Young of Young Creative. Marie shares her tips for looking at the past and the present to help plan for the future of your business. Thanks, Marie! Every successful business must live in three dimensions simultaneously: the past, the present, and the future. Too much…
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business buzz 7-31-10
Read more: business buzz 7-31-10A weekly roundup of craft, design, and business related news and links: How to Write a Winning Press Release: The Step-by-Step Guide – 10 tips on how to write a superb press release How to Increase the Quality of Your Facebook Fans – there might be a million ways to get more fans, but don’t…
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what was your dream before Etsy?
Read more: what was your dream before Etsy?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…
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make it easy for me to give you money
Read more: make it easy for me to give you moneyLast 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…
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the importance of routine
Read more: the importance of routineWhen 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,…