When you start out with your small business, you spend days and weeks and months, hoping to get an order from somewhere. I’ve written about what it’s like to be the owner […]
If you’re a new online store owner who’s just starting out….
….some of these might resonate with you 🙂 Note – this post does not have any pro tips or advice or hacks. It’s meant to illustrate some of the odd behavior you […]
Have you recently bought a product and really liked it? Let the maker know!
If you’re like a typical customer, you buy something, and unless it’s a commodity product (eg: say toothpaste), you tend to either like what you’ve bought, some times you even love it, […]
The economics of selling handmade journals
Hmmm…..so what are the economics of selling handmade journals? Tl;dr Not great, especially if you’re making them in the US! Let’s use a simple leather handmade journal as an example. Something like […]
Share what you make
It is not easy to put your work out there, making yourself and your work vulnerable to others’ judgement. Especially in your early stages, when you are yourself unsure about what you’re […]
Design and Craftsmanship in bookbinding
When you first start making books, I think the initial attraction for many of us is to make something that looks beautiful and feels beautiful to write in. This is true for […]
Nobody ever became a writer by wanting to be one – F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter
A while back, I came across a book called “Posterity” – it has a collection of letters from a wide array of people – Writers, Artists, Politicians, Businessmen, written to people in […]
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