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CraftyPod #113: Kari Chapin Answers Your Crafty-Business Questions

 
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In this show:

Kari Chapin, author of The Handmade Marketplace, answers your crafty business questions.

• The conversation ranges from one-of-a-kind products to business plans to multiple income streams to various venues for selling.

• …And we we talk about how all that stuff is different for microbusinesses than it may be for “crafty empires.”

Links:

• Here’s the book: The Handmade Marketplace – a very flexible guide for the many forms crafty businesses can take.

• A couple resources you might seek out in your local community for general business help: The Small Business Administration and SCORE.

• Kari also highly recommends The Switchboards, an online community of indie business owners who share resources and advice.

Goals were a recurring theme in this show. Here are some interesting posts about goal-setting:

A guide to SMART goals, from Goal Setting Guide

Why goal-setting makes you cringe, from Lifehacker

A Goal-Setting Toolkit, from Success Begins Today

(Huge thanks to Nichole for those links!)

Chris Brogan on setting micro-goals

Dave Navarro on making goals easier to achieve

Seth Godin on the goals you never hear about

Chris Brogan on redrawing your goals

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