Grow Your Handmade Business : How to Envision, Develop, and Sustain a Successful Creative Business

Mapping your dream. Identify your dream business ; Dream business fundamentals ; Working for your vision ; TLC ; Goals and intentions ; Benchmarks ; Get some help? -- Planning for success. Types of business models ; Business plan preliminaries ; Do you manage your time, or does your time manage you? ; The nuts and bolts of business plans ; Know your marketplace (or marketing!) -- Putting it all together : your marketing plan -- What do you male, and how do you make it? : having a production plan -- Money, money, money -- Budgets and budgeting -- Profit and loss -- Money and how to get some -- Making it all legit -- Professional support and where to find it.;Addresses all aspects of turning a creative interest into a profitable business, covering business planning, licensing, budgeting, time management, and legal issues.

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 expanding production and distribution, finding funding, and addressing legal matters. With this definitive guide, you'll discover how to grow your business beyond the dining room table and finally quit your day job.

Are you ready to make a living from your craft? Learn how to map out a financial plan, expand production, automate distribution, address legal matters, and much more. Start growing your business beyond the dining room table and leave your day job behind. A guide for the creative hobbyist who wants to take the next step and quit his or her day job to make a living from a creative passion. Suitable as a coaching handbook, it shows how to develop a business plan that will work and be sustainable.