Creative Products

How Working Backwards Helps Move Your Business Forward

December 15, 2011

How Working Backwards Helps Move Your Business Forward: 7 Steps to Creating Deadlines That Work Every Time By Jane Button I now work much better starting backwards than forwards. It’s something I learned long ago when I realized that there were certain times of the year when buyers placed their orders. When I started my [...]

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Part 2: If someone gave you $10,000 to spend on your business how would you spend it?

December 3, 2011

Part 2: If someone gave you $10,000 to spend on your business how would you spend it? And Why? by Jane Button Evelyn really thought she'd had the answers down pat when she gave her grandfather the answers to his questions on where the $10,000 would be spent. So she was disappointed she had not [...]

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Creative Business of the Month August 2011 | BlueKatDesign

September 5, 2011

Meet Heather Botteron O'Cain of BluKatDesign:    I first came upon Heather on Twitter and I liked her style and like her beautiful designs. I also loved that she was in Seattle even though, sadly, we have never actually met in person.   One thing led to another and I found her on Facebook and started [...]

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5 Things I learned about business from working with American Girl®

August 9, 2011

At the time it seemed to come out of nowhere. My company was approached by The Pleasant Company (American Girl ® Dolls was originally founded as The Pleasant Company by Pleasant T. Rowland) to help create and launch knit products for a new doll which was going to be introduced to the market. Wow – [...]

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7 Things You Can Change In Your Creative Product Business So You Can Make More Money NOW

August 2, 2011

  A few days ago I was asked (on twitter) to critique a website to see if I could offer any help about a creative product. I checked through it pretty quickly and my immediate response was: there are 5 things I could tell you right away about what you could change that would completely [...]

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Let’s Get You Ready to Sell to Stores | Beyond Etsy

August 1, 2011

There's a question I get a lot. It's often from people who've been selling their creative products for awhile at the retail (one on one as in Etsy) and they're starting to get that itchy feeling about how they could grow bigger, make more money, get more exposure and streamline their business if only they could sell [...]

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