Crochet Hashtags Are They Worth It? How would you like to increase your social media impressions by 23% or Have 95% of your landing page visitors scroll down to “read more”? Impossible?
Crocheting a Business on Facebook It’s a Trend
Hazel Basil Co loves crochet. When her sister had a baby she started madly crocheting all things girlie-too bad it she had a boy. What to do? Sell it on Facebook. More and more people are using Facebook to test the entrepreneurial waters. Read More at http://rediscoverwashington.org/2014/01/08/hazel-basil-co-adorable-local-crochet/ This inspired me to do a little experiment of […]
Crochet Savvy: The Crochet Crowd, Crochet Dad, and More Awesome Men of Crochet
Inside you’ll find interviews with Gene Saunders – The Crochet Dad, Mikey Selleck of The Crochet Crowd, Todd Paschall, and Johnny Vasquez of New Stitch a Day Bonus: Inside you’ll find an interview with Tech Editor Deborah Overath of ScienceKnitster Werks. If you’ve ever wondered what a Tech Editor does she answers all your questions. Read […]
Etsy’s Obituary or Just Negative Thinking
Skinny Artist speculates about the dying off of Etsy sellers. She used stats from 2010 that shows Etsy’s earnings at $26.6 million with over 1,466,039 items sold in the month of September. She throws out a number of scenarios on how Etsy gets the numbers they do. 90% are buyers while 10% sellers 50% buyers and […]
Crochet Raises $1000 for Favorite Nonprofit
What Do You Do For Your Favorite Charity? In the past I’ve crocheted scarves for Special Olympics, made blankets for the local nursery, hats for the shelters, and mittens too. A few years ago I did a crochet hat campaign for Compassion International. (compassion.com) Everlasting Hope crochets hats to raise money to support the building of […]
Crocheting is Cheaper Than Therapy And Here’s the Proof
Best Friends and ‘CHEEPER’ Than Thereapy That’s a quote on a plaque I have in my kitchen with chickens in the background. This post however, is all about crochet and its therapeutic benefits. The Livingston Daily did a piece on Charlene Hatfield’s yarn shop Stitch in Time. The media has done well to give […]
Wool and Whisky – A Great Combination
What started out as just a hobby while McShane was teaching in Korea, is now a blossoming business. (Don’t get me started on K-Dramas) In between classes other teachers were crocheting and knitting so eventually they taught her too. Soon the compliments and inquiries started about her scarves and cowls. The name of her business is […]
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone – A Success Story
Step Out of Your Comfort Zone – Midwest Crochet In order to grow your business you need to take risks and that means you need to step out of your comfort zone. I love reading about successful businesses like Midwest Crochet. Michelle, the owner of Midwest Crochet shares how she started her business, her tips […]
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