mindful spending
The Price of Craft & How I Became Apprenticed to Myself
A guest post by Chantelle Brightbill of Clothscape. Visit any online crafts forum and you will see that one of the most hotly debated topics is pricing. How can you learn to price appropriately? There are many formulas floating around out there, this one from the Fine Craft Guild is good. But the variable that [...]
About the Author
Tara Gentile is a business coach and blogger serving passion-driven entrepreneurs with fresh ideas about productivity, passion, and profit. She’s the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning.
what’s mine is yours: craft & collaborative consumption
As we find ourselves in the second week of a new year, it’s time to guess what will be coming in the next 50 weeks. Trends! What’s new? What’s hot? What will so-and-so do this year? One trend gaining momentum in 2011 is collaborative consumption. Collaborative consumption is the idea that we can get by [...]
About the Author
Tara Gentile is a business coach and blogger serving passion-driven entrepreneurs with fresh ideas about productivity, passion, and profit. She’s the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning.
our underselling problem
A guest post by Michelle of Wicked Whimsy. Underselling. The term is probably not familiar to your average layperson, unless they’ve worked in retail a lot or studied business practices. But it’s a practice that, whether done intentionally or not, can seriously harm independent businesses and designers. Underselling is selling at a lower than fair [...]
About the Author
Tara Gentile is a business coach and blogger serving passion-driven entrepreneurs with fresh ideas about productivity, passion, and profit. She’s the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning.
embrace the hunt
We are predators. We hunt game for sport. We hunt our houses and our mates. But there is no greater pursuit, no more daring a quest, than the hunt for a bargain. Hunting season has begun and the shoppers have loaded their weapons. Oh, we love the hunt. Waking at the break of dawn, pushing, [...]
About the Author
Tara Gentile is a business coach and blogger serving passion-driven entrepreneurs with fresh ideas about productivity, passion, and profit. She’s the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning.
How to Give a Gift That’s Win-Win-Win
A guest post by Jenny Alexander of The Painted Lily. The holidays are officially upon us! My radio is ablaze with Christmas carols already and stores have been playing them for weeks now. Everywhere we turn, especially right after Thanksgiving, there are gift choices laid out in front of us like a feast before the [...]
About the Author
Tara Gentile is a business coach and blogger serving passion-driven entrepreneurs with fresh ideas about productivity, passion, and profit. She’s the author of the digital guide, The Art of Earning.
