Tag: small business

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Maker Business

Maker markets are in flux, retail stores are just now grinding back into motion, and the future of live, human-to-human commerce opportunities for handmade, local goods is uncertain. This moment presents a huge opportunity for you to do a strategy pivot, test new digital marketing tactics, and experiment how you’re getting your good goods out there in front of the world. Use this time to up your entrepreneurial ante and you may just find yourself better off than you ever could have imagined.

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At-Home Smartphone Photography

Take Quality product photos from home!

Selling goods and services online starts with quality photos. In this era of social distancing that can be a lofty request when professional photographers are unable to enter your living room. To solve that problem, Saray Taylor-Roman has outlined tricks and tips on how to make studio quality photos at home – and on a budget!

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Learning to Pivot with Dale Mackey

Guest blog by Dale Mackey

My husband Shawn and I are both lucky enough to be self-employed doing work that we’re passionationatea about. He’s a photographer who captures life in a way that makes the world look like an interesting and beautiful place. I am a baker and manager of our community event space, The Central Collective. Being able to do what I love and run a space for people to gather is the best job in the world… until there’s a global pandemic.

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