enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: small business
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I applied for a spring craft fair yesterday. Key word : applied. I didn't even get in yet. But in true Elise "cart-before-the-horse" fashion, I got started on a display for my possible booth. I figure, best case, I get in and I have a dent made in my massive to-do list. Worst case, I…
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One of my big goals for this year is to be more careful with my business expenses to help raise my bottom line a bit. The first major transition was to order my packaging supplies in mass quantities from an online retailer instead of doing multiple shopping trips every month at a major chain store.…
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This is my first full year where the shop and business is my main job. My only job. That's so exciting and also overwhelming. I need to kick things into gear. I thought a lot about what my sales goal should be and how much money I should try to earn but then realized that…
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I've got a plan for the tabletop of my next craft show. I need to find or build an apartatus with strings (or wire?) running between posts. I could clip prints & cards to the wire. And then I thought it would also be cool to paint (fancier than what is shown) frames onto kraft…
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This weekend was my first attempt at hosting a table at a craft fair. After 24 hours, I feel like I have started to figure out what I loved about it and what I did completely wrong. While it would be easy to share a few photos and say "it was great!", I would like…
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Like most people, I am motivated by money. For sure. But, also like most people, I have learned that that can't be all there is. I have quit jobs that paid more money than I am making now because they wore me down instead of built me up. I stopped hosting advertisers on this blog…
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Since I was thirteen, I have held a lot of jobs. Baby-sitter, nursing home activities assistant, smoothie maker, magazine ad intern, admissions student intern, real estate development intern, big box store management intern, claims adjuster intern, customer service associate, retail assistant manager & public relations intern. Lots of interning. Lots of learning. What did all…
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stickers from UPrinting.com / thank you postcards from vistaprint.com / washi tape from happytape & kimamaya / twine from divine twine / shaped paper clips & white tags from Office Depot / mailing tubes from amazon.com + For now, the re-brand is done. So much of building the shop has been learning the best way…
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Shiny, thick & colorful. Just perfect. From MOO.com.* Moo lets you mix up what the front of the cards look like and I took advantage of that. I used five different colors and simple descriptions of what I do on the front and then backed them all with the gray side & contact details. I…
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So I have ordered at least seven sets of business cards for myself in four different designs. Never once have designed them and printed them out actual size to see what they would look like before I pushed the "send to print" button. That's sort of weird right? I've never done actual mock ups for…
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