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Welcome to Creative Income!
Welcome to our brand new blog, Creative Income! We are super excited to be live and sharing tips for the crafty and business minded. Every day we’ll be right here bringing you articles to help you...
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To Blog or Not To Blog
You’d have to be living on a deserted island not to at least have heard the term “blog.” People have been talking about blogs for the last few years and it’s a form of communication that is not going...
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5 Ways to Beat the Creative Blues
I go through all kinds of highs and lows being a creative being and sometimes I hit a roadblock. My emotions sometimes feel like a roller coaster. Didn’t I get enough as a teenager? It’s so not fun...
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Be an Original: Copyright and Original Designs
The tough questions: What’s an original design? How do I know if I’ve violated copyright laws or infringed on someone’s copyright? How do I make sure what I’ve created is original? One of the most...
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Be a Part of Your Trade
The Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) is a trade only organization that has several categories of members including retailer, manufacturer, sales rep, distributor, Publisher, Designer, Teacher,...
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The Basics of Being a Contributor
Many of the magazines I read include a feature that highlights their contributors. Contributors can be regular writers used by the magazine for every issue to more freelance writers to those who...
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How to Make Money Blogging
To blog or not to blog. That is always the big question isn’t it? The most important part of the answer is whether it would be worth it for you. Blogging can be great for your crafty business, but it’s...
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Craft and Hobby Association Show – Winter 2013
It’s that time of year again! The team here at Creative Income will be shipping out to California this weekend to attended the biggest craft trade show put on by the Craft and Hobby Association. And we...
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SEO Basics: Using Keywords With Your Photos
In a recent post, I explained how keywords are the foundation of search engine optimization, also known as “SEO.” You can read that here, if you missed it. To give you a quick refresher, when you use...
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Special Giveaway + Review of Mark Montano’s Latest Book
If you’ve ever thought of creating a craft book but stopped because you didn’t know how on earth it would ever get published, today’s your lucky day. Mark Montano’s new book, How to Write and Publish a...
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Go Digital: eBooks Can Boost Your Business
We all know that Amazon is a huge online retailer. One thing I love about this site is that they did not initially reject the idea of ebooks thinking it could hurt their business of selling physical...
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How to Pitch Your Articles, Tutorials, and Designs To a Magazine
A Creative Income guest post by Marie Segares from Underground Crafter. As a creative business owner, there are many reasons you might want to pitch your work to a magazine. Some of the most common...
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Small Business Saturday: Driftless
Welcome to Small Business Saturday, a new feature here on CreativeIncome. Today we get to meet the creators of the independent magazine, Driftless. Leah and Shelly told us all about what it’s like to...
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