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Making a Living *CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024 HIGHLY COMMENDED*

How to Craft Your Business
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Making a Living by Sophie Rochester explores the lives of various individuals who navigate the challenges and triumphs of working in the creative industries. The book offers insights into how these creative entrepreneurs blend passion with practical business strategies to achieve sustainable careers. Through personal stories and expert advice, it provides inspiration and guidance for those seeking to make a living from their creativity.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in understanding the intricate balance of pursuing a creative career while ensuring financial stability. It offers insights and strategies for navigating the challenges of combining creativity with entrepreneurship, ideal for those who aspire to thrive in the creative industries.

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The definitive guide to starting your dream business, for creative entrepreneurs

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Making a Living has been carefully crafted to support anyone looking for practical, hands-on advice and inspiring stories to motivate them to make their dream business into a reality.

Inspiring stories from jewellery makers to basket weavers, artists to terrarium makers, printmakers to ceramicists, bring bags of real-world advice and inspiration for those wanting to take their first steps into this new artisanal economy.

With more time at home than ever before, the restorative distraction of crafts and making has seen a mainstream resurgence. So too has the desire to 'make a living' from creating handmade products to sell, or to sell our creative skills.

This new wave of at-home entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to promote their businesses, Etsy and Not on the High Street to sell their crafts, and PayPal and Shopify to manage their payments. Technology-led businesses are transforming the way in which offline maker businesses are operating - and business is booming.

From the founder of Yodomo, the online learning platform for arts and crafts, and with chapters on market research, valuing and pricing your work, branding, marketing and sales, as well as accounting fundamentals and legal considerations, this is a step-by-step guide to getting your idea off the ground, either as a side hustle or as your next major career move.

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Making a Living by Sophie Rochester is praised as a practical and current guide for individuals starting or managing a craft-based enterprise, offering straightforward advice for growing such businesses and potentially aiding in their success.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529393934

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 December 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Sophie Rochester is CEO and Founder of Yodomo, a marketplace for online creative courses and products from leading artists, makers and designers. Yodomo enables designer makers to share their skills and create additional revenue streams for their businesses. She is an advocate of the power and benefits of making with our hands.

She is listed as a Top 10 British Council UK Creative Entrepreneur on the Guardian Professional hClub 100 list.

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