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CraftyPod #118: Why Your Story is Everything, with Tara Gentile

July 2, 2010
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In this show:

• Tara Gentile and I talk about the power of personal stories – and why they’re such an important way to set your crafty business apart from the crowd.

• Where can you find the elements of story in your business? And how do you [...]

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Summit of Awesome was like this…

June 25, 2010

So . . . Summit of Awesome.
First, Kelly, Sara, Christine and Kim of Hello Craft did an absolutely wonderful job organizing it. Portland owes them a big debt of gratitude for choosing our city this year. (More in the whole gratitude thing in a moment.)
Actually, quite a few people have done posts detailing the specific [...]

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Creative Tithing: What do YOU think?

June 4, 2010
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I’m so excited to see conversations happening around the craft community about “creative tithing”…
The first instance I saw was over on Olivebites, where Cat talks about taking 10% of her monthly craft-business earnings, and making a point of spending it in the craft community.
Then, this post on Scoutiegirl took up the subject, speaking of the [...]

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Flattr: an interesting alternative to Free

June 1, 2010
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This morning, I registered this here blog with Flattr. Maybe you should register your blog there, too.

Flattr is a new micropayment system. You can use it to earn a little money from your blogging efforts, and more importantly, to give a little something back to the people who make your daily internet experience so rich.

(I [...]

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CraftyPod #114: Building Creative Communities, with Marlo Miyashiro

May 7, 2010
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In this show:
• Marlo Miyashiro talks with me about building creative communities, and shares how she did it with Seattle’s EtsyRAIN.
• We discuss the most important elements of a thriving creative community.
• …And we talk about what a community leader can do when members express dislike for how a community is running.
Links:
• Visit EtsyRAIN online, [...]

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More good posts on Free, Value, and Business from around the web

April 30, 2010
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Happy Friday! Today I wanted to share links to some more Free-and-Business-related posts… illustrated with some beauty shots from Cabo.

First, I was so excited to do a guest post over on Crafting an MBA this week. Megan does an excellent job presenting thoughtful business resources that go way beyond the nuts-and-bolts stuff you see everywhere [...]

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Introducing the Archive-Along! (Join Us!)

March 29, 2010

Today kicks off a special blog-project that Rachel (of Average Jane Crafter fame) and I cooked up.
It started, as so many fun ideas do, from a snippet of random conversation. We got to thinking about how, all this frenzy of online activity – all these blog posts, all these tweets and Facebook updates, all these [...]

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Interesting thoughts on Free from around the web

March 25, 2010
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This likely comes as no surprise, but I’ve been reading a lot about Free and related subjects lately. I wanted to share some particularly great posts I’ve found. If you’re interested in this continuing discussion of Free, these links are all very worth your time.

Over on Crafting an MBA, this post about Etsy and the [...]

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Join the Bronte-Along, won’t you?

March 24, 2010

Image by Melissa Averinos
I wanted to share something lovely I’m participating in these days. Maybe you’re a fan of the hoop-skirt and the brooding hero, too?
Recently, Melissa Averinos watched a BBC production of Jane Eyre (which is freaking amazing, by the way). She quickly became a bit obsessed with Jane, and so she joined forces [...]

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CraftyPod #111: My Own Story of Free and Crafting

March 12, 2010
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In this show:

• To further our ongoing discussion of Free and how it affects the craft community, I share my own story of Free. In some ways, Free has created my business. In others, it’s created big challenges.

• I talk about the most important by-product of Free: [...]

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