Get to Know Your Ideal Customers
When you first start your business you may or may not have a clue as to who your ideal customers are. That’s ok. As you go through your branding, competition research and customer research you will get to know them. Since today is Get to Know Your Customers Day I...
Choosing a Name For Your Handmade Business
Choosing a name is actually really, really hard. At first the thought process goes something like: “Hey, I like birds, bees, puppies and kittens. Maybe I should pick something cutesy.” Then your business mind kicks in. That sounds so silly, you might...
Selling Handmade Items: An EBay Review
eBay is huge! Okay, maybe not as big as Amazon but as I once read; “On the whole, eBay is better for used items and Amazon is better for new.” Although this statement isn’t accurate it does give you an impression of each platform and the audiences they are more likely...
Do You Want to be a Virtual Assistant?
Lately I have been asked two questions: 1) Are you a virtual assistant? and 2) How do you start a virtual assistant business? So I felt that those questions were worth a blog post. Firstly, yes I am a virtual assistant. I specialize in the online business aspects such...
The Missed Step Before Building Your WordPress Website
Okay, so you have your logo, your colours, maybe even your fonts and you’ve done your target market research but what’s next in building your WordPress website? Often times you will likely just start looking at themes and other websites to get ideas and...