One of my goals this month was to publish a new range of notebooks with Amazon. The good thing about doing this is that it costs me nothing but time. I'm not necessarily expecting them to sell well on Amazon as I think the market is completely saturated with low content books such as these.…
Category: Small Business
Home Business Log #001
I don't know about you, but I love watching the trajectory of someone's journey. It can be an actual journey or a metaphorical one...it doesn't really matter, I just enjoy the progression of someone's dream coming true. In this vein, I thought I'd share my home business journey. Read More: How I created my own…
My Stickers!
I've just sent off my first sticker sheets to be printed! It's so exciting (for me, probably less so for you...). Anyway, I thought I'd give you a peak of my first four designs: The sheets above contain a trim and bleed, so there won't be the gaping background all around the edge. I'm so…
Homemade Sticker Sheets and Small Art Journalling
When I first went into the gift shop in our village to see if they wanted to become stockists of my homemade cards, the owner said to me that once I had a design I could put that design on many different products. This, of course, was a great idea. Almost immediately I used my…
Designing My Invoices {Small Business from Home}
Invoices were one thing I hadn't really thought of. Delivering my first order up to the local gift shop, the owner asked me how I wanted to be paid. Hmm. So I took to Canva and began designing my invoices. Of course, I could have just used a simple black and white simple design. But…
Packaging My First Order {Small Business From Home}
Yesterday, I shared how I had designed my own vellum packaging and then found that my printer did not print vellum, the paper alternative I had chosen. Sigh. There is so much I don't know. I think that I've done the research but, alas, I find I know little. But I am nothing if not…
Designing my Own Packaging {Small Business Owner}
I've got a few 'small business' posts coming this week because my business is off the ground and I have had a few orders! This has made me consider how I want to package up these orders, the type of invoices I want to make and the type of business brand I want to develop.…
My Sea-Life Notebooks
I thought I would show you my five sea life notebooks that I now have published on Amazon: To give an idea of size, here is one of the books next to its companion card: And a last one of one of the books. I shall leave the link to each of the books below,…
My Greeting Cards Came Through!
This is a post which is heavy on the pictures and light on the writing! This is my first delivery of cards. Let's just say, I've learnt a lot. They are not perfect but the colours are wonderful and printed.com did a marvellous job with the quality. I will definitely be ordering from them again.…
Designing and Ordering a Custom Made Business Stamp
I'm running a bit late on account of Becca's Football camp! Somehow the day has completely got away from me. I have finally snapped a couple of photos to show you of my new business stamp and the start of the resulting business card. I can't tell you how delighted I am with the result!…
My First Business Mistake
I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but I would have rather my first business mistake had come a bit later than just a few weeks in. You all know the difficulty I have in formatting things for printing and understand colour profiles and the like. To be honest, everything feels a bit…
Ordering Custom Made Greeting Cards
So today, my huge achievement is ordering my custom made greeting cards! I finally figured out a way to upload the images, change the colour profile and have them of a good enough quality and size for the company to accept the order. This was definitely a labour of love because I found it so…
Plantable Business Card {Homeschool Mum Small Business}
The wrapping of Etsy bought products is an important aspect which sets them apart from buying from places like Amazon or Bay. I enjoy the experience of opening Etsy bought goods and therefore want to provide this for my own customers. Last week I ordered a present for a friend from Etsy. In the box,…
Kindle Direct Publishing {Homeschool Mum Small Business}
When I took my designs up to the local gift shop in our village, one comment the owner made was that once you have designs you can then use them on pretty much anything. She'd had one lady who had started out offering five greeting cards and was now selling cups, plaques, prints...all from her…
How to Create a Logo for a Small Business
Last week I had a meeting with a local shop regarding my small business idea. They offered to sell some of my greeting card designs (yay me!!). Before they can do that however, I need to get some printed. And before I could do that, I needed to create a logo which could be printed…