Grow Your Handmade Business (2012) (edit title/settings)

How to Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business

by Kari Chapin (Author) (edit contributors)

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Are you ready to make a living from your craft? Applying her trademark "you-can-do-it" coaching style to the nuts and bolts of business planning, Kari Chapin covers all of the issues involved in turning your creative hobby into a successful business--from mapping out a business plan to... read more

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Dreaming big is one of the best (not to mention the most affordable!) business skills you have.

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Introduction
Part 1: Mapping Your Dream
1. Identify Your Dream Business
2. Dream Business Fundamentals
3. Working for Your Vision
4. TLC
5. Goals and Intentions
6. Benchmarks
7. Get Some Help!

Part 2: Planning for Success
8. Types of Business Models
9. Business Plan Preliminaries
10. Do You Manage Your Time, or Does Your Time Manage You?
11. The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans
12. Know Your Marketplace (or Marketing)
13. Putting It All Together: Your Marketing Plan
14. What Do You Make, and How Do You Make It? Having a Production Plan
15. Money, Money, Money
17. Budgets and Budgeting
18. Money and How to Get Some
19. Making It All Legit
20. Professional Support and Where to Find It
Parting Advice
Adknowledgments
Resources
Index

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Kari Chapin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-60342-989-4
Page Count: 271

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Library of Congress: HD9999 H362 C528 2012
Dewey: 745.5068'4

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Books › Business & Investing › Small Business & Entrepreneurship › Marketing
Books › Computers & Internet › Business & Culture › Web Marketing
Books › Business & Investing › Small Business & Entrepreneurship › New Business Enterprises
Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › E-commerce
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