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Grow Your Handmade Business: How To Envision, Develop, And Sustain A Successful Creative Business (2012)

by Kari Chapin(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1603429891 (ISBN13: 9781603429894)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Storey Publishing, LLC

review 1: As an Etsy seller, I was hoping that it would give me tips on marketing and growing my business. However this book was about how to start a business and had nothing to do with handmade at all, so I felt the title was misleading. The only difference between this book and my college text books was this one used pretty font and pictures. It's a great reference for starting a business but not for what I wanted it for.
review 2: Properly speaking, this book should have been called "Sprout Your Handmade Business." It's about building your business from the pre-conceptual stage, not about growing an existing business. The first half is entirely "What do I want to do? How do I think out my plan?"; half thought exercise and half inspirational talk. Not really for me,... more so I skipped it.Part Two touched on keeping accounts, registering your business, taxes, overhead, etc. This was why I picked up the book. Only, the content was so vague it could have been boiled down into a five-page tip sheet titled "Stuff you need to check off to make sure your local tax authority doesn't show up at your doorstep; also, you need to make sure you have a functional workplace and can pay your employees if you have any." I understand why an introduction to starting a craft business wouldn't want to discuss codes and regulations that are regional or could change from year to year, and I wasn't expecting it to, but I did expect more content. Very, very light on information. Disappointing overall, but I'm also clearly not the target audience. less

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