My Internet Guru Web Ninja, who also happens to be my husband*, just made me an affiliate button for the group I belong to: Tara Swiger’s amazing Starship Craftybiz.
It’s a forum, stuffed with classes, that helps people who are making their craft hobby into a business. Tara has been doing stuff like this for years: coaching, through classes via mp3s and PDFs, about all kinds of ways to help you make your business grow.
But not many “make your business grow” are geared specifically towards a business based on artsy things – in my case, knitting. It’s what might be called a “softer” business – pun intended. The client isn’t always sure what they want right off the bat, you’re not sure how to suss out of them what they want, and you both don’t speak the same languages of yarn, beads, sewing, or whatever thing is your awesomeness that your customers love.
That’s where Tara’s Starship comes in. I’ve taken her Pricing Class, and her Bake Sale Class (Sticky, Not Icky) , which are included in the Library. She also has many other classes which are helpful in learning how to get my Craftybiz going and keep it going, but YOU get to choose what you take, and there’s no time limit on how long it takes you to get through them. Who are my Right People? I learned who they are, and how to find them. I got help in making a knitting-civilian bilingual dictionary.
What the Starship has, in addition to all the classes Tara offers in one place, is the forum where you can ask any questions – any time – day or night. There are lots of people around, with many different areas of expertise.
So, if you have a hobby that you’d like to turn into a thriving business, come aboard, me hearties!
*It’s wonderful having Internet tech-y help right next to you in the bed, for people like me – that is, crafty, yarn-loving, musical, but utterly, hopelessly, nail-bitingly, fearfully code-illiterate geeks.
Even if that help sometimes consists of an irritated, “Google it, dammit!”, I get forgiving cuddles later.
