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Keeping Your Head in the Game: Tips on Working from Home
Many of us are expert multitaskers, juggling a full time job, family, blogging, running a craft business, and so much more. That’s why it can be so essential for us to stay focused and get to business...
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Getting Organized: Keeping Clutter from Distracting Your Workspace
Let’s face it, every working-from-home-guru will tell you that managing clutter and keeping organized is the key to getting yourself on track and focused with it comes to running a business or working...
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Craft Business? There’s an App for That!
I think by this point we’ve realized that a large percentage of the American population owns a smartphone and because of that there is an app for anything you can imagine. It shouldn’t be surprising...
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Vacations Can Be Time for Work and Play
Vacation! Hopefully everyone gets at least one vacation a year even if it’s what they call a “home vacation.” This is when you have time off from work but enjoy your community as a tourist. I’m lucky...
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Craft Business Woes: Managing Your Precious Time
Don’t we all feel it? Too many things to do and never enough time to get it all done. It’s especially difficult when you’re working, trying to take care a family, and trying to start/grow/ expand your...
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Key to Working at Home: Conquer Your Clutter
One of my biggest issues with getting everything I need to do from my to-do list done is procrastination. Yup, I’m admitting it. I’m a HUGE procrastinator. And what’s a better excuse to procrastinate...
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When to Say No in Business
Sometimes “No” is the most profitable thing you can say or do. Too many of us are your typical “Yes” people. We try to please everyone and often end up overworked and overscheduled. Saying Yes all the...
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Secret To Success: Managing Stress Levels
We put a lot of pressure on ourselves as creative people and especially as small business owners. So much and so often that I hear people living in constant state of stress around the clock. As many of...
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How to Keep Your Holiday Spirit During the Busiest Time of Year
This time of year can be crazy for a creative business owner. Double or triple sales volume (we hope), customers who want their purchases YESTERDAY, glitches in shipping or computers… all of it can...
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Start Your Creative Business in 2013 – Balance
This is the third post in my series of posts of things to know even before you launch your creative business. Things that may help take some of the loneliness, frustration and fear out of starting a...
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5 Tips for Increasing Productivity
I don’t know about you but between flu season and a trip to California for the Craft and Hobby Association Conference and Trade show I’m a big pile of UNproductivity. I can’t seem to get myself back...
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Strengthen Your Focus Muscle
If you are here, reading articles on Creative Income, the chances that you are a creative person are pretty good. BUT. Let me ask you a question… Were you ALWAYS creative? So creative that you could...
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When the Going Gets Tough
Lots of folks think that owning a creative business would be the perfect job. They imagine days sitting in a cafe updating their blogs or online shops. They just know that hours and hours of creating...
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Taking Time for Yourself – 10 Ways to Stay Healthy
It’s not easy to take time for yourself when you run your own business. There are products to create, list, sell, manage. There are trips to the post office, FedEx, the bank and suppliers. There is...
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Avoiding Productivity Pitfalls When Working From Home
Let’s face it. Working from home is a dream for a lot of people. Working people may dream of waking and walking to the office down the hall in their bathrobe with a cup of coffee in hand, long lunches...
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The Art of Working from Home
It’s 1pm and you realize you haven’t showered yet today, you’ve been wearing the same yoga pants for 3 days and you aren’t even sure you brushed your teeth. You only vaguely remember feeding the cat...
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Time Management Worksheet
How much time can you devote to your business a day? A week? A month? Time management is something that is talked about all the time on blogs because creative business owners are all such busy people!...
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Tips for When Things Get Really Busy
It’s been one of those weeks. You have deadlines, the kids have school projects and a bonus opportunity that you simply can’t pass up has been dropped in your lap. All of that on top of your regular,...
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How to Start an Editorial or Work Calendar
Does the idea of creating an editorial or work calendar worry you a bit? Are you the kind of person who likes to “wing it” and you are afraid that being chained to a calendar, spreadsheet or other...
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The Handmade Business Blues
I don’t know about you but some days I feel like in stead of me running my business it is running me… into the ground. Between deadlines, new projects, an insane number of ideas and all of the other...
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