Are the Christmas preparations stressing you out? So much to do, so many jobs to attend to! The friendly online marketing experts and The Design Trust affiliate partners Polly Dugdale and Claire Hughes of Handmade Horizons are here to help! They have created a very useful e-book to help you get your online shop into [...] Read more »
5 steps to name your creative business successfully
Many creative sole traders and soletraders use their own name as their business name. It is the easiest, and often a default option. Sometimes they are already ‘known’ under their own name prior to leaving art school. Using your own name gives your business a more arty and personal touch. (It can get a little [...] Read more »
Book review: Setting up a jewellery business by Angie Boothroyd
This really is an essential book for people wanting to start a jewellery business. It’s a very practical book that you can read from cover-to-cover (in a couple of hours), or indeed dip in and out for many years to come. If you purchase Setting Up a Successful Jewellery Business (Setting Up Guides) as a [...] Read more »
Top tips from 5 experts on online selling (video at Make It Pay)
The Design Trust organised a popular, full day event in the summer all around selling for designers and makers, called: Make It Pay. One of the most popular parts of this intensive day was an expert panel discussing online selling. In this short video 5 experts give their practical tips to help you sell online [...] Read more »
Ten steps to setting up a jewellery business – jeweller Angie Boothroyd
Originally from California, Angie Boothroyd worked as a graphic designer when she moved to London in 1994. She then retrained in jewellery at London Guildhall University and then at the Royal College of Art where she completed her MA in 2001. Angie set up a workshop at Cockpit Arts with the help of a Cockpit [...] Read more »
Exclusive Design Trust webinar: How to network successfully online with social media – with Justyna Sowa
Many designers and craftspeople use social media such as Facebook and twitter especially to sell to people. Their tweets are mostly about selling their work, to promote themselves, to get potential clients to buy their work from Etsy or any other website. But actually, these social media tools are actually not that great for pure [...] Read more »
13 last minute actions to promote an exhibition, event, craft fair, trade show, open studios, ….
You have spend all your time preparing for a major event. You made all your work. Spend ages on the presentation, finding the right plinths, the right lighting. Been focused entirely on the making and creation of your work. And now, a week or on the day (!) of the show, you realise you need [...] Read more »
Exclusive Business Club webinar: Blogging for design – Katie Treggiden of Confessions of a Design Geek
Want to learn more about blogging? Need to know how to get in touch with bloggers to promote your work? Want to start your own blog or improve your existing blog? Do you want to make (more) money from your blog? I am really pleased that Katie Treggiden, the editor of award-winning design blog confessions [...] Read more »
The Design Doctor: How to stop wasting time on Twitter & FaceBook and make it more useful?
Dear Design Doctor I do want to get more involved with social media. But, do I really need to spend the whole day replying to tweets and liking Facebook posts if I want to expand my network? Is there another way for the social media averse? The Design Doctor for this question is Hilary [...] Read more »
Book review: Photograph your own Art & Craft by Sussie Ahlburgh + 14 top tips for professional photography using models
Photograph your own Art & Craft is written for (applied) artists and designer makers who want to photograph their own work. It is aimed at the beginner and slightly advanced DIY photographer, with some technical discussions about lenses, some technical language and detailed practical info on how to set up your own photo studio. Photograph [...] Read more »