Welcome to the My Craft Business Blog!

Hello and welcome to the Crafting Biz Blog. On this blog, I will be discussing anything and everything to do with how to make money with your crafts. Whether you want a full- or part-time income, you CAN make money with your crafts. And with the help you find on this site, you'll avoid a lot of the potential mistakes that many crafters make when they try to create a crafting business. So, watch this blog over the next few weeks and make sure you add it to your Favorites folder.

Happy Crafting!

Chuck

Friday, September 21, 2007

Craft Mafia - A Craft Business Collective

I was checking out my Google Alerts, and ran across a story about the Manchester Craft Mafia, a group of craft business owners in Manchester, UK. Here's their mission statement from their site:

Manchester Craft Mafia is a group of crafty businesses dedicated to supporting and sharing a creative, maverick spirit of crafting in Manchester, Greater Manchester and beyond. We’re craft and proud!

We want to help kick-start the new wave of . . .

. . . entrepreneurial crafters sacking the rat race and finding other ways to make a living . . . people crafting en masse and in public . . . anyone hiding an inner crafter . . . and everyone who just loves buying, finding or making something that bit different.

The idea for the Manchester Craft Mafia came from the original Austin Craft Mafia, who have now set up a website to explain what a Craft Mafia is, and provide links to Craft Mafia Familias from around the globe. In addition, they tell you how to start your own Craft Mafia Familia and share ideas with other craft business owners in your area.

This is such a GREAT idea! When you can get together with other craft business owners and discuss how to improve your craft business, you leverage the experience and creativeness of a number of individuals.

A craft business can sometimes be very lonely. When you are working in isolation, the tasks you have before you can be daunting - creating your crafts, going to craft shows, developing marketing, working on a web site, and more... - and a group of crafters going through the same struggles can be a great source of support and wisdom.

Check out the Craft Mafia website, and see if this is something you can create in your area.

Happy Crafting!
Chuck

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