Finding Your Way Through the Fear
Go ahead and share this post if you find it beneficial. Well it’s been quite a week here already! Big snowstorm hit Monday night, giving us 12 inches of snow on top of the 12 already on the ground. It’s a heavy wet snow, and strong winds so we had major drifts across all the roads. On top of that our power went out at 9:30 am Tuesday and wasn’t restored until 8:32 on Wednesday. Needless to say didn’t get my blog post out. Any way, today I wanted to touch on a topic that you might be struggling with. It has to do with fear of going after what you want. It might be you are afraid of succeeding or failing,…
Business Tools Worth The Money When Starting An Online Business on a Budget
Go ahead and share this post if you like it! When I first started my online writing and crafting business, I had very little money to spare. So I built a website (this is back before the ease of WordPress, Yea I have been around that long!) using free web builders. I think my first one was with Yahoo’s free web builder that included the shopping cart. I was selling handmade custom embroidery baby items at the time so I needed some way to for customers to get my products. At the time, it served it’s purpose. Of course, now you can use Etsy.com for your marketing but you still need a site of your own. If I was starting again, though, I would spend…
Six Business Tips for the Creative Hobbyist
Six Business Tips for the Creative Hobbyist Is a Business the next step for you? Are you constantly working on your creative hobby, spending every spare moment creating fun new products? Craft people, artists, writers, and others who are creative find they are spending more time with their craft than they do anything else. Maybe it’s time to think about turning that sideline hobby into a business you can enjoy and profit from. I was one of those creatives. I would spend my spare time sewing, writing and creating beautiful things for my family and friends just because I enjoyed doing it. A while back I was encouraged by several to turn my hobby into a business.
Create. Learn. Thrive.