Plan Your 2010: Craft Inc. and Craft Inc. Business Planner

While on vacation last week, I read a book I wanted to share with you, Craft Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby Into a Business by Meg Mateo Ilasco. It’s fabulous!

Meg covers everything you need to know to get your craft business off the ground: financing, legal structure, trademarks, business licenses, packaging, pricing, production, marketing, publicity, trade shows, sales, order fulfillment, and more in a fun, accessible way.

Plus, she profiles inspiring entrepreneurs and enterprises like Denyse Schmidt, KleinReid, Sunshine Scarves, Wool & Hoop, and Jill Bliss throughout the book.

After reading Craft Inc. (the Thanksgiving break would be a perfect time!), you can pick yourself up a  Craft Inc. Business Planner: The Ultimate Organizer for Turning Your Crafts Into Cash to start planning for 2010.  The Planner is rich with useful tools.

She has everything from an “open-for-business checklist,” to a pricing worksheet, to templates for designing your tradeshow booth, to marketing campaign worksheets. There is also a to-do list notepad in the front, folders in the back, and an address book separated into sections for business contacts, vendor/supplier contacts, and industry contacts.  Pretty awesome.

You can see more images of what the Planner looks like on the inside in these blog posts:

What other resources would you recommend for craft entrepreneurs?

Full disclosure: I received a review copy of the Craft Inc. Business Planner.

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About Britt Bravo

Britt Bravo is a social web consultant and career coach who helps artists, entrepreneurs and nonprofits realize their big visions and be a powerful force for good. In addition to the GCCE blog, she writes for three blogs: Have Fun Do Good, BlogHer, and WE tv's WE Volunteer blog. She also produces the Big Vision Podcast and the Arts and Healing Podcast, and hosts Echoing Green’s podcast, Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact. Bravo is a frequent speaker and trainer who has presented at events such as the Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp, Bioneers Conference, Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference, San Francisco Writers Conference, Global Engagement Summit, and the BlogHer Conference. Her personal blog, Have Fun * Do Good, is one of the top ten blogs on the List of Change, and her Twitter feed @bbravo is on Social Edge’s list of “Top 100 Tweeps to Follow.” In 2007, her local paper, the East Bay Express, named her the Best Podcaster/Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. You can find out more about her work at www.brittbravo.com.

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