First Steps to Get your Handmade Creations into Shops
Are you thinking you’d like to get your handmade creations into brick & mortar retail stores… but you don’t know where to start? Getting your work out into the ‘real world’ via retail stores is a great way to grow your business...
Make Creating a Daily Habit
Whenever I go through phases of making more with my hands – practicing lettering, doing some photo journalling, mocking up tutorial projects for you guys – I find that the more I do it, the more easily I do it the next day. It’s like my hands making...
My Top 5 Tips for How to Be Creative every single day
Want some tips on how to easily introduce creativity into your day? Read on, my friend, read on. (hover and pin for later ▲) The satisfaction you get when you complete a project is awesome. But even better, is the process of actually creating something, ANYTHING...
Meet the Maker – Zilpah Tart
Today I’ve got my good friend Yumi from Zilpah Tart in the hot seat for Meet the Maker. I’ve followed Yumi’s journey from fashion graduate, to business side-hustle, to full-time fashion business over the last several years and I can’t wait to...
Meet the Maker: Honey & Glow
Today I want you to get to know my friend Erin from Honey & Glow a little better. I first met Erin a couple of years ago when she and her husband Marty needed some help putting together their website for their new business. I was immediately impressed by...
Working on your business with a young family and no TIME
I just need more time! This is the most common phrase I always hear when people are talking about running a small business. Everyone has a lack of time to be able to get any work related tasks completed. Yup. I know. No surprise, right? I’ve said it myself only...
Quick and easy DIY market stall price card stand
While you’re still fairly new to the market stall game, it’s generally accepted that you’ll spend a certain amount of time perfecting your market stall set-up and visual merchandising, in order to get it just right. When I was attending markets...New stock photos added to the free resources library
This week I’ve added 11 new photos (from our trip to Hawaii in 2016) to the free resources library in the “stock photos” section, that you can use for quote backgrounds, in your blog posts, or for any other non-commercial application. You can gain...![[VIDEO] How to make a circular profile photo with transparent background](https://themakerscollective.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/circular-profile-photo-933x675.jpg)
[VIDEO] How to make a circular profile photo with transparent background
I’ve put together a very short (less than 2 minutes!) video showing you how you can crop a profile photo to a circle and save with a transparent background to use in your email signature, on your website, across the web or on other graphics for your business....![[VIDEO] How to create your email signature in Gmail in 3 minutes](https://themakerscollective.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/email-signature-933x675.jpg)
[VIDEO] How to create your email signature in Gmail in 3 minutes
I’ve put together a very short 3 minute video showing you how you can create an effective email signature in Gmail, going through inserting images and formatting text, but also showing you how you can float an image of yourself to the left or right of your text...
How to tell a good business story
I started out writing this article for Mikaela all about story telling, and how story telling is super big in the world of business these days. And we all better get out there and make our stories sing. It’s like everyone from corporate giants to a fledging handmade...
Why you need to put effort into the packaging of your products
In many of the online business groups I frequent, I see lots of debates about whether or not it’s important to put effort into the packaging of your products when posting to customers. Some say that they spend oodles of time wrapping their products, tying with string...
Social Media Tips from The Savvy Assistant
I hear from so many business owners who find it a real struggle to stay on top of their social media. With making, creating and the overall pressures that come from running a business, it’s no wonder posting anxiety [aka WTF am I going to post!] is at it’s peak....
Plan with Intention
Following on from my post last week about setting a specific intention, this week I’ve asked Sarah from SarahJCross.com to join us with her tips on planning your year with intention. Was business planning something you wanted to do last year but you just didn’t...