One of the things that I really enjoy in my craft business is hunting around for different products to sell in my shop. Well, it’s not always as enjoyable as shopping in the shopping centre/mall as suppliers can be unreliable, and hard to find, and sometimes not very reasonable, but most of the time [...]

One thing that Wendy (the founder of eMoms) and I noticed very quickly from your responses to CraftBoom! is that there is a huge crafting business community out there that isn’t being supported on the internet as well as it could be. Your response to this blog has been wonderful and I want thank all [...]

Switch on the news and read any newspaper and you’ll hear about fears of an economic downturn/slow down, at least I know this to be the case in both the US and the UK. My crafts e-commerce business is my sole source of income so I’m particularly mindful of what’s going on [...]

The best thing you can do for your Craft Business (and any other business) before you make a single thing to sell is to do some research (and to keep on researching during the lifetime of your business).

Fore-warned is fore-armed. Do your research and you’ll stay one step ahead.
Here are some excellent web resources for [...]

For any of you who don’t already know I own a bag making supplies store. I have come to learn that one of the trickier parts of running a retail business is dealing with suppliers. Even if the suppliers are pleasant, efficient, and reliable (they are rarely ever all three) you can [...]

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 [...]