The blog, Work From Home Momma, features an interview about my experiences in home businesses over the past 40 years, including my quilting one, Mea’s Quilts, operated during the Bicentennial Years. This interview, by Laura Spencer, is the first in her Work at Home Interview Series about women, particularly moms.
As Laura says, “Today’s interview is with […]
Eleanor Burns, the quilter who started Quilt in a Day, that has grown from a home business into an internationally recognized one, is featured in a story in the NC Times of San Marcos, CA, Quilt in a day owner builds business piece by piece.
“Although Quilt in a Day started out as a way […]
Do you have a quilting or fabric arts business you can operate wherever you happen to be making your home or while you’re traveling? Some people travel and then return to a home base. Others continually travel and work at their art from a motor coach or fifth wheel.
Nowdays with the use of computers and […]
What happens to your quilting or fabric business when you move? With the traditional quilting or fabric store that depends on customers stopping in to purchase, you lose business when you relocate. An Internet fabric or quilting business, often operated out of your home, continues wherever you may move.
Of course, with a business that’s entirely […]
If you operated a quilting or fabric arts business in the pre-Internet days, you’ve likely discovered that much promotion nowadays is connected with online applications. Even your business may have an online presence.
“I’ve always considered myself a PR pro,” comments crafts business expert, Barbara Brabec, in her current e-newsletter bulletin, “but what I was particularly good […]
The question of what to charge for our quilting services and products often is a quandry for quilt business owners, whether they sell items they’ve made, resell those purchased wholesale, or perform a service. There are various formulas based on cost of materials plus operating expenses plus an income, yet there is no absolutely fixed one. […]
If you’re involved in quiltmaking and fabric art as a business, you may want to check out my recent post, Being a Home Worker in a Home Business, at Home Biz Notes. There I discuss my experience when I made samples and later the finished products for a customer who was involved in finding markets […]
Business owners, whether they operate from their home, a shop elsewhere, or solely online, find themselves taking risks…some more than others, as they venture into their own enterprise. If you’ve ventured into any type of quilting or fabric art venture to promote and market your products and/or skills, you’ve had to take some risk…money, time, […]
If you operate a quilting/fabric arts business, developing a rapport with your customers so they’ll remain loyal and continue returning for your products and services is important. Some call this branding…others regard it as developing customer/client loyalty.
So….how does a business generate such loyalty in their customers? How will you develop your business so customers return repeatedly, whether […]
Developing a business plan for your quilting/fabric arts business becomes important …for keeping your own goals before you and for letting the IRS (in the United States) know you’re seriously involved in a business not a hobby making spasmatic earnings. I attended two home business workshops recently. At both the necessity for developing a home […]
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