Crocheting a Business Episode 1

7 Crochet Jobs You Can Take to the Bank

Show Notes:

• Introduction
• My Family Story and How I started the Crochet Business Blog
• 1-Contract Crocheting – C.G.O.A. Crochet Guild of America
• 2-Design Your Own Patterns – Create Crochet Patterns: A step-by-step Guide for Beginners, see Stacey Trock’s Design Your Own Monster Class on Craftsy
• 3-Art Installation – Coral Reef Project, Olek, 2012 Olympics Shawna Richardson
• 4-Piece Work – being paid for each piece you make, yarn shops, photographers, craft shops, commissions, wholesale
• 5-Write About Crochet –  Hooking for Cash: 10 Ways to Make Money with Your Crochet Blog, articles, guest posts, blogs, blogspot.com, wordpress.com, or self-hosted blog, Crochet Saved My Life by Katherine Vercillo
• 6-Your Own Business – Etsy.com a low cost option, sell on your blog, Paypal, Handmadeology.com lots of handmade seller information, Michelle Gallagher sets up Etsy shops – see 10 Things You Should Know Before You Open an Etsy Shop, Seo, writes descriptions, and edits photos mycraftassistant.com, Shopify.com
• 7-Teach – teach as a business NOT as a hobby so charge for your time in order to make a living, Teach online via Google Hangouts or Skype, Make-and-Take Parties, YarnOverTruck.com a local yarn store on wheels
• Wrap-Up
• Questions – call-in
• Proposed Outline – introduction, teach or interview, Questions open-up call-ins, Wrap-up
• Closing

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