As published by Handmade UK Once you’ve decided to start selling your lovely handmade items at craft fairs and events, how do you make sure you make the maximise the opportunity and increase your chances of gettting those all important sales? Rickie Josen tells us how… Here at Crafty Skills we run Success Workshops to help support and grow small businesses and one [...]
As published on Enterprise Nation Enterprise Nation community member Rickie Josen became our first StartUp Saturday franchisee on Saturday 22nd September, taking a class for new business owners in Hotel La Tour, Birmingham. Here’s her account of the day. The first StartUp Saturday outside Birmingham arrived with seven intrepid business people making their way to [...]
As published on UK Handmade Turning your hobby into a fully fledged creative business can be a daunting task but here are a few useful tips from Rickie Josen ofCrafty Skills. Recently we ran a Success Workshop which had the official title of ‘How to sell to those other than friends, relatives and colleagues’. These workshops offer practical tips [...]
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Am I being productive or active? These are some of the many tips for being productive. One of my often used words is ‘focus’ and Ferriss is big on making every minute count and not creating tasks for yourself. If [due to a heart attack] you could only work 2 hours per day, what would [...]
As written for UK Handmade 24/05/2012 Today, writer, crafts events organiser and trainer, Rickie Josen, examines how to make the leap from hobby to full-time business. Making the leap Have you ever found yourself sitting at the computer, looking longingly at the beautiful photographs of lovely handmade creations made by those clever people who have managed to turn what they [...]
As published by Enterprise Nation Evangelical networker Rickie Josen has previously written about the co-working group Jelly on Enterprise Nation and can often be found chatting on Twitter during our own #watercoolermoment. But she’s also a fan of Meetup, which enables people to form local groups around a shared interest. Here are Rickie’s thought on the benefits of [...]
I’m delighted to be invited to this Sunday Times event that happens in London but for the first time is beamed live across Cineworlds’ in the country. It’s safe to say it’s a huge success although I may have been the only person in the audience who went in from a business angle rather than [...]
This is great article full of decent tips. Via Ideas Tap How to blog The time is ripe to get self-publishing. Stevie Martin gets blogging tips from Paul Bradshaw, Visiting Professor of Journalism at City University London; Audrey Rogers, founder of successful fashion blog Frassy; and The Media Briefing blogging master Patrick Smith…Read
Each weekday at 11am, we invite Enterprise Nation followers on Twitter to take a short break and join us for a chat. We call it the #WatercoolerMoment and we’ll often pose a question to get the conversation started. Last week we asked: ‘What holiday habits will you bring into your working life in 2012 to make it more fun?’ [...]
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