I find myself again splitting up the week into two posts because the week two post of the 2013 31 Days of Crochet Business Blogging was becoming too long. DAY ELEVEN Writing Prompt: Develop a call to action post. Let your readers know what you want them to do, e.g., if you want them to subscribe to your RSS feed, …
Category: The Business of Crochet
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Have you thought about turning your crochet hobby into a business that earns you income? If you have, then you’ll want to check out the posts in this category. In them, I describe the steps I’ve taken to make money from my crocheting. You’ll find information about setting prices, blog monetization, crocheting on commission, marketing, creating and selling patterns, and much more.
Wow, I can’t believe week one of the 2013 31 Days of Crochet Business Blogging Challenge has come and gone. That week focused on business planning. Week two is all about determining what you’re going to blog about and how often. So with that in mind, I begin Day Eight. DAY EIGHT Writing Prompt: The focus of my blog is …
My week one post for t he 2013 31 Days of Blogging Challenge was becoming unwieldy, so I am beginning a new one that includes the remaining days (four through seven) of posts for week one. DAY FOUR Writing Prompt: What’s important to you as a business owner? Ethically and philosophically? Write a 3 Things Every Crochet Business Owner Should …
Happy New Year, Everyone! I decided toward the end of 2012 that one of the things I was going to do in 2013 was blog more consistently. To me, that meant publishing on a schedule, on a regular basis. The challenge, however, was to decide how often I would publish. Because I tend to write long blog posts (i.e., 800+ …
I had the distinct pleasure of teaching a woman who is left handed how to crochet so she could complete an afghan her grandmother, who had recently passed away, had started. I was extremely nervous going in to this project because I had not had a lot of experience working with left-handed crocheters. In fact, this woman was my first …
Trying to Keep My Crochet Blog “Google Compliant” If you are a regular reader or subscriber to my crochet blog, you may have noticed subtle shifts in the blog’s theme. over the past few months. In light of recent changes Google made to its page layout algorithm (yes, there is such a thing), I have been searching for ways to …
UPDATE 7-6-19: This pattern can now be found on Etsy.com. I reserving my full length books for Amazon. You can find me on Amazon HERE. I recently published my third crochet pattern for the Kindle. This one is a felted water bottle holder. The yarn used is Manos del Uruguay Kettle-Dyed yarn. I’m finding this yarn to be great for …
UPDATE 7-3-19: The Easy-Breezy Crochet Throw pattern is no longer on Kindle. You can now find it on Etsy. I haven’t posted here in a week or so because I’ve been busy writing about crochet elsewhere. One of my biggest accomplishments this past week was to publish my first crochet pattern for the Kindle at Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform. …
I’ve re-inserted just about all of my photos back into this blog. The farther back in time I went, I discovered that a few of the photos had vanished unfortunately (I indicated in updates when this happened.) While re-inserting the photos was a pain in the you-know-what, I can say that I learned a lot from the experience. It also …
(Note 6/24/11: This post was written when this blog was on the Typepad platform.) Blog Montetization Sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it? But I wanted to ramble a bit about it because it’s a subject that’s been on my mind for some time. I realize it’s a little off the topic of crochet, but since this is a blog, I …