Camaraderie Designs

Another great crafty business resource that I found incredibly useful is the podcast Craftypod. Most of the episodes do not focus on business, but the ones are do are an incredible mound of information. The episodes are only 20-25 minutes long, so are a pretty quick listen. I listened to a lot of them while folding up my massive piles of laundry, and some others while I taught myself to embroider for the business.

The only problem I had with Craftypod was the loading of their website.  Each page, especially for the main podcast site, took FOREVER to load, at least in Google Chrome.  Is there too much stuff on the main pages?

Here are the business-related episodes that I found the most useful and helpful and gave me new ideas (and reinforced/validated some ideas I already had):

Marketing
#70: Marketing Your Art & Craft, with Ryan McAbery One of the first episodes I listened to. It’s great to hear tips from someone who is so successful on Etsy and otherwise… in fact, she was so successful, that she… well, why don’t you keep reading this blog post?
#78: Market Your Craft Online, with Jennifer Perkins This episode gave me ideas on where to start online with marketing. I will most likely stick with the blog and probably Facebook.
#89: Branding Your Crafty Business I didn’t really know what “branding” meant until I listened to this episode.
#106: Engagement Marketing for Your Crafty Business

Business
#95: Crafting for Money vs. Passion, with Paul Overton A great interview about what it means to craft. Is making your passion and hobby into a business a good idea?

#107: Taxes for Your Crafty Business, with Hunter Coleman This is something that has been freaking me out. Coleman talks about some business deductions you can do, and just other general and VERY useful tax information.

Etsy-specific episodes:
#76: Etsy Street Teams with Leah Pellegrini A quick primer on Etsy street teams and how different they can be organizationally from one another. The show notes also gives links to some other great resources to “band together” with other crafty businesses.
#97: A Top Etsy Seller Downsizes, with Ryan McAbery