You never know what is coming around the corner that will affect your ability to show up in your crochet business.

Have you ever asked the question “what will happen to my crochet business if I have to take a few weeks off?”Will you still be able to earn any money without disappointing customers?Will your audience still be there when you return?

Questions like these are why I always recommend having more than one income stream from your crochet, with at least one of them being a form of recurring income.

Why recurring income? Because it doesn’t need you to show up every single day if it allows you to be found in search results.Let’s talk more about it in this episode

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Halloween is a strange thing when it comes to promoting your crochet. Christmas and Fall décor start getting marketed at the beginning of September, so Halloween gets squeezed into the middle of them.So how do you promote Halloween if you choose to do so and how do you get yourself and your crochet noticed when there is so much else being promoted at the same time?

There are so many factors that go into how successful you will be in selling your crochet this Christmas season that it's impossible to give you a hard number.Instead we can talk about what expectations are realistic and how you can work out what that means for you.

Listen in to this episode to discover how you can work out what your Christmas crochet profits could be.

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Pricing is often a crocheter's biggest problem. We feel guilty for charging what we're worth but frustrated that we don't charge more because we feel like everyone's chasing a bargain.

At a craft fair this gets worse because we come face to face with our customers.So how do you stop the guilt of charging a fair price from making you drop your prices at the first challenge?

This podcast talks through how to stand your ground and some tips on what to say or do when a customer tries to haggle.

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The Christmas craft fair season is almost here and that means it’s time to prep your craft fair calendar.But how do you know that the craft fairs you choose are going to be worth your time and you’ll head home with a nice profit?In this episode we’re talking about how to get picky with your events so you only choose the best ones for you and give yourself the best chance of selling out your crochet.

For more craft fair selling tips you can grab my 39 tips for selling out at the fair here.

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I built my crochet business on Facebook, from day one I was all in on my social media as a way to build my audience and grow my profits.

But then my personal life went downhill and I was left unable to work on my Crochet business for 2 long years.

In social media terms that’s an eternity.

Trying to get a Facebook page working again after that length of time is a major uphill struggle, but add to that social media had completely changed in what it wants to see people posting and I just had to throw in the towel and look for an alternative.

That alternative is SEO and it’s more reliable than social media, if slower to build up.

In this episode of the Crochet Business School podcast I’m telling you my story and how I’m rebuilding my business without social media, but in a way that will ultimately be more secure and need far less mental energy than my Facebook page ever did.

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When we’re doing everything possible to turn our crochet into a career we can get our heads so buried in doing all the things that we’re told we need to do that we forget to look at how well it’s actually working.

This is especially true if you’re making regular sales and you feel like you’re always busy. But how much profit are you really making?

Because that $20 profit you made on that bag sale sounds really good until you break it down.

Listen to this episode to discover the truth about those profits and then download my free Map Your Path pdf here