Get Found: Our Traffic Is Your Traffic

by Handmade Spark on 6/07/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Handmade Spark is a site whose sole focus is to provide marketing services to Etsy sellers so that they will be discovered by their dream customers and increase their sales. We tackled this project by creating a site whose infrastructure is designed to drive traffic to Handmade Spark member Mini-sites. …

SEO Help Me Part Three : Google Analytics ~ What in The World Is This Thing Telling Me? (Updated)

by Handmade Spark on 4/28/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Royal Canadian Correspondent – Laptop / Messenger Bag by Billie Bags
Most of you are artists and find these kinds of tasks daunting and outside of your comfort zone. We will try to make this as painless as possible, We promise. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is useless if you …

An Artist’s Guide to Pricing: An ebook by Brandi Hussey

by Emily Orpin on 3/25/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Do you ever come across a resource that is so helpful that you just have to tweet it and blog it and Facebook it to the world?  Well, that’s exactly how I feel about this guide to pricing, which I stumbled upon thanks to @danniellecresp).  It’s put together by the …

Writing a Creative Business Plan: Right Brain Versus Left Brain Thinking

by Robin Norgren on 3/22/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Italian Air Force Messenger Bag | Meatbagz

From my journal pages
This is a portion of my journey through the book “The Creative Entrepreneur” by Lisa Sonora Beam.  I have spent an INCREDIBLE amount of time in Chapter 3.  I will tell you this experience is helping me to SLOW DOWN and …

Unconventional Inspiration: The Hardware Store

by Kim Lapacek on 3/15/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Organizing Papa Fabric Basket from SallyManke on Flickr
As I’ve posted about before – I’m really into challenges right now.  One of the latest Project QUILTING Challenges was to visit a hardware store and be inspired by at least 3 things to create a quilt – of course, in just one …

How are you being Marked by your Muse?

by Stephey Baker on 2/26/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Giclee Art Print of Clouds | $42 | Stephey Baker Marked by the Muse: Inspirational Art Shop
Being Marked by the Muse™ is a fancy-pants motto to living creatively – to experiencing your fullest potential throughout Life.
Being Marked by the Muse™ yields strength, conviction, light heartedness and a feeling of invincibility.

The …

Photo Styling: “Reality” or Getting Real: an Authentic Opinion Guest Post by Ask Harriete

by Handmade Spark on 2/23/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

Your photos are like Superheros traveling at the speed of light, working 24 hours a day, shrinking and expanding at the touch of a button. The folks at Search Engine People sum up this discussion about images perfectly:
“The old adage is that you can’t judge a book by its cover. But you do …

How Do You Define Dream?

by Stephey Baker on 2/21/11 | View Comments Comment(s)

I define Dream as the following:

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
What is your dream? What is calling within you to be realized?
Be mindful to how you allow yourself to Dream. What you allow yourself …