Stop! Look! Listen! Find out what regulations are involved if you decide to start selling some of the quilted and fabric art items you make, teach workshops, hold shows, open a fabric shop, etc.
Will there be regulations that restrict you from doing this from your home? Or in another location? Will you need a business license? […]
Learning techniques from other businesses may act as a springboard for your quilting business, even if the others don’t involve quilting, patchwork or fabric art. I read about a fun home business recently and think you might learn from this family…at least how to “find a need and fill it.”
This is the Christiansen family in […]
Quilters and fabric artists have been asking me questions about developing their home business, keeping it going, challenges they may encounter and other related topics. At another b5media blog, Home Biz Notes, where I co-blog with Yvonne Russell, you’ll find a great deal of business information.
Yvonne has just posted a list of Popular November Home Biz […]
The end of 2007 is approaching faster than most of us would like to think about. Some of us don’t have any quilting/fabric art related items to declare on our taxes. Others operate quilting ventures as a business. Either way… that means we must consider wrapping things up taxwise.
Kelly, at b5media’s Taxgirl, will be answering year […]
Do you find family and friends wonder why you do all that quilting? Also, if you do this as an at-home business, do they think you don’t really work? They consider you available for errands, volunteering, taking care of other family members and pets so think you have all this free time that’s at their disposal.
Quilting […]
Myths - ideas not founded on fact
Those of you with friends and family who consider your quilting and fabric arts “just” a little hobby, may be interested in checking out the periodic myth destroying taking place at Home Biz Notes. Co-blogger Yvonne Russell came up with the idea and readers are sharing the […]
Quilters and fabric artists, who are earning their living from their art, may desire to look into retirement plans for the self-employed. Perhaps they’re doing this parttime and have a retirement plan where they work or a spouse has one. Yet they might never know when they could be depending on their parttime work for full […]
Writing careless, unprofessional e-mails may turn off customers. Or they may give customers, editors, and others the idea that you’re as sloppy with your quilt art as you are with your online writing.
Celine at Pimp Your Work has some good tips about writing e-mails in her post, 7 Ways to Make Your E-mails Unprofessional. She […]
Businesses often wonder what they can legally deduct as an expense on their taxes. Some small business owners are completely unaware of many of the deductions.
“What can businesses deduct?” Kelly Phillips Erb, from Taxgirl, says is one of the most frequent inquiries she receives.
Kelly has answered this in a guest post at Problogger, 46 Tax Deductions that […]
When we’re operating a business, we hear so much about what we can to make it successful. Sometimes we aren’t told what to avoid.
On the b5media Business Channel, we wrote posts about mistakes to avoid in your business and business related endeavors.
You might want to check out, at Home Biz Notes, my list of 9 […]
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