Sunday Afternoon Housewife

Today is the last day of pay-what-you-can week here at Sunday Afternoon Housewife. I decided to do pay-what-you-can week because of a couple of reasons: I have taken advantage of these types of offers from others (mainly Tara Gentile and Danielle Laporte) and have learned things which were invaluable to me. I wanted to share [...]

Happy Tuesday everybody! How’s the weather in your neck o’ the woods? Here in Indianapolis, we’ve had quite the ice storm overnight and everything is covered with ice. Thankfully I don’t have to go anywhere today, we still have power at this time. I’m really hoping I keep it. If you see a disruption in [...]

{photo credit} For the last few weeks I have been working on my yearly budget and thinking about my business goals for 2011. I even mentioned in yesterday’s blog that I wanted to get this done so I could share a few of my goals with you. I have to say that I am not [...]

I hope you benefited greatly from yesterday’s link love related to marketing and branding. As I mentioned yesterday, there were so many awesome posts last week I decided to split the link love up over two days. Today’s link love is all about awesome resources, resolutions and goals. Take a look and be sure to [...]

Ok, it’s totally true that I have been obsessed with COGS lately. COGS means, simply, cost of goods sold. Your COGS are basically your material costs, labor costs, and the markup and profit on the items you sell. You might remember last week when I wrote about re-evaluating your COGS at the start of the [...]

You’re probably already wondering what the squirrel has to do with anything, right? Well, I think I chose this photo to start today’s blog off because it really makes me think of how we feel on Mondays! Ha!I hope you had a great weekend. I spent a lot of time over the weekend working on [...]

While the year is still very young, and before you plan to blow away any previous online sales goals and fair goals, why not take a minute to re-evaluate your cost of goods sold and make sure you aren’t losing money on every sale you make? Here are a few reasons to re-evaluate your cost [...]

If you read yesterday’s blog, you know that one of my goals for 2011 is to help others run successful craft business of their own. To help you do this, I want to introduce you to my newest e-course: the Start Your Year Off Right Class! If you want to grow your business in 2011, [...]

This week seems to be the week where I focus intently on the business aspects of crafting. So far this week I have written about better blogging and creating a press kit, which are 2 things I chose to write about because I have been working them so hard my self. I’m feeling a little [...]