Jane Button: Turn your creative passion into a profitable business

It’s time to quit

Jane Button — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:29:09 +0000

As the year ends it's a time of reflection and a time of hope for the New Year. Resolutions are usually a list of wishes and hopes for change. Hope is not a strategy. A strategy is accessing where you are now and deciding where you want to be within a certain time period. Strategy [...]

This post via the Jane Button blog where you can get creative product business ideas from design concept to profit for your apparel, craft, gift, sewn product, knit product, invention or creative product idea

Do you need a business makeover?

Jane Button — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:20:19 +0000

Way too often creative product entrepreneurs define themselves by what they design or make. They see their "value" as what they create and pay little attention to the rest of the business – including their target market and how they conduct the rest of the business. Truth be told, the product is the tip of [...]

Turn your fashion or sewn product idea into a business

Jane Button — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:39:09 +0000

Do you dream of starting an apparel or other sewn product type of business? Or Have you started an apparel or other type of sewn product business and are stuck in a rut – not growing as fast as you want to? Stop waiting around! I'd like to help - and so I've put together [...]

Are you a “Sidetracked” Entrepreneur?

Jane Button — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:35:27 +0000

How to go from Sidetracked Business to Prosperous Business I've been noticing a lot of haphazard creative product entrepreneurs. Many with some really wonderful creative, innovative products, but the execution of the business is lacking, random or seemingly nonexistent. I call these "Sidetracked" businesses – businesses getting perpetually sidetracked, zigging and zagging through the seasons and never really [...]

Hiring a Sales Rep Is Like Getting Married

Jane Button — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 05:41:41 +0000

Hiring a Sales Rep Is Like Getting Married: This relationship is too important to leave to chance by Jane Button Hiring a sales rep is like getting married – you are hiring a partner and an extension of your company. You wouldn't get married on the first date and you want to make sure the [...]

Multiple streams of income or disaster!

Jane Button — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:00:50 +0000

Wouldn't it be great to have multiple streams of income? You'd have money coming in from all different channels, and if one dries up you'd still have another from another source! Wow, you think, that would be great. That's what I want to do. I'll have all different products on multiple websites; I'll teach classes [...]

Remember your first day of Kindergarten? | Back-to-School

Jane Button — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:14:05 +0000

I've always been energized in the Fall with Back to School! It's a new beginning - a second chance for "New Year's" resolutions and goal setting. And if you took time off during the summer, it's time to set priorities and get geared up for FALL and BEYOND! When you have a product busines it's critical to plan ahead - especially when you sell to stores.

The Top 3 Mistakes Creative Entrepreneurs Make In Growing Their Businesses

Jane Button — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:52:41 +0000

The Top 3 Mistakes Creative Entrepreneurs Make In Growing Their Businesses - by Jane Button You're a creative entrepreneur. You've got talent. You're creative. And you have amazing ideas. And somehow it doesn't seem to all fit together into a profitable growing business. If you're not doing as well as you think [...]

I can teach anyone how to create a 6 or 7 figure product business, but first…..

Jane Button — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:44:28 +0000

I've said this over and over; and I believe it and know it is true, I can teach anyone how to create a 6 or 7 figure product business. There is a system and process from design concept to market to profit. Once you learn that you can do it and grow your business. I [...]

Make Over My Business and Open Q&A Replay

Jane Button — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:06:24 +0000

Thank you so much for all the terrific questions on Monday night's Open Q&A Call. We had questions from how do I set up an agreement with a sales rep – to HELP! I have an appointment with a big chain – to when are you having your next event <love that one!> 'cause its happening very soon [...]