Your Creative Business: from craft hobbyist to solopreneur step-by-step

Turn your hobbies and talents into profit with this step-by-step guide for home-working creatives.Starting your own craft business isn’t easy and it can be overwhelming knowing where to start. Even if you’ve already started a business, sometimes you need help taking it to the next level.We tell you how to value your time or price your work correctly.We help you with your artist impostor syndrome.We show you how to deal with difficult customers.We encourage you to get your strategy together when you feel overwhelmed. From deciding what you want to make and developing your ideas, to branding and marketing your own small business, this book guides you through the entire process. It even shows you how to develop multiple income streams in order to future-proof yourself against unexpected global or personal events.Your Creative Business is written by Angie Scarr and Kira Swales, a mother-daughter creative duo, who combine their extensive experience in both the craft and marketing worlds to bring you the inspiration and information you need to make a success of your own creative home-working business. They give you the nuts and bolts in a relaxed and humorous manner, breaking up the technical bits with anecdotes and fun exercises in order to help you turn your creative ideas into a real, profitable, craft business.