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It’s 1pm and you realize you haven’t showered yet today, you’ve been wearing the same yoga pants for 3 days and you aren’t even sure you brushed your teeth. You only vaguely remember feeding the cat today (or was that yesterday?) and you forgot to eat lunch. Again. You got up this morning, got the […]
Let’s face it. Working from home is a dream for a lot of people. Working people may dream of waking and walking to the office down the hall in their bathrobe with a cup of coffee in hand, long lunches with friends or knocking off early to take the kids to the park. Working from […]
Many of us are expert multitaskers, juggling a full time job, family, blogging, running a craft business, and so much more. That’s why it can be so essential for us to stay focused and get to business when we make that time to work on business. I know that for me it takes some effort […]
One of my biggest issues with getting everything I need to do from my to-do list done is procrastination. Yup, I’m admitting it. I’m a HUGE procrastinator. And what’s a better excuse to procrastinate than to clean? Clutter is the friend of procrastination. To help combat my habit of avoiding doing sales numbers and photo […]
Are you one of the many creative business owners who hear the word networking and feel uncomfortable? Business networking can be easy, even for introverts like me, and it can help you to grow your business faster than you can on your own. In this series, I’ll be sharing tips for using networking to expand […]
No one loves creating more than I do, and I have enjoyed doing all sorts of crafts and selling them in a variety of ways – see my work at Carolyn’s Canvas. But now I am 75 years old, and have grown weary of packing up, hauling, unpacking, displaying or wrapping and trudging to the […]
One day you are a creative, working in the corporate world with a set schedule, fitting art in at night or on weekends. The next, you are an independent artist or crafter, working from home. This sounds like a dream come true to many – doing what you love, full time, for a living. And […]
Welcome to Small Business Saturday, a new feature here on CreativeIncome. We recently got to talk to Claire Russo and Liza Serratore from LuRu Home about their business. These women founded LuRu Home in 2010 and have since become the ultimate authority on Nankeen dyeing. Nankeen dyeing is a traditional Chinese indigo hand-print process dating back 3,000 […]
We caught up with Whitney Surane of Madly Wish after seeing this lovely article from Red Tricycle. We are both located in the Chicago-land area so it was great to catch up with her and hear how she runs her craft business in the Windy City. Whitney has a line of sewn baby items that […]
You might think that your accountant is the most important ingredient in your creative business – especially around tax time. Or maybe it’s your attorney or your husband who agreed to make dinner again so you could finish getting your latest batch of online sales ready for shipment. But let’s face it- YOU are the […]
