Happiest New Year Everyone. I hope you all had lovely time with your family and friends over Xmas. I myself was really ill from the 22nd of Dec to…well…I’m still feeling a bit pants, but thankfully over the worst of it of now.
A new year brings the promise of a whole host [...]

The best way to get your name out there is to market yourself, and one of of the best ways to market yourself on the internet costs NOTHING! NADA! Ta dah! That’s right folks using social sites like Flickr costs a big fat ZERO. I am speaking from personal experience and Carrie Sommer, [...]

Woo Hoo! Here is another fabulous Crafting Heroes Interview hot off the press. I am really loving these interviews. Like you, I am finding them so inspiring and full of great advice on how to run my own business. For those of you who don’t yet know, I asked the lovely readers of my other [...]

Most of us will already know that Etsy is a wonderful resource for newbies who want to go into craft business for the first time, and many sellers have made a great success of selling through Etsy alone. Etsy shops are easy to set up, attractive, easy to use, they attract lots of customers, and [...]

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Claire says” As a new reader to Craft Boom, I’m finding it very entertaining and learning a lot – thanks! I saw your post about looking for business owners to get in touch, so I thought I’d tell you about how we got started and see if you could use it [...]