Craft Inc. Business Planner: The Ultimate Organizer for Turning Your Crafts into Cash

by Meg Mateo Ilasco

Book Overview

This action-oriented take-along planner is packed with advice and worksheets that guide creative entrepreneurs in their hot pursuit of profit. From big picture goals (writing a mission statement,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Diary
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811869954
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Craft Inc. Business Planner

Excellent companion to her first book. This book is in worksheet format and has a lot of great information. Very easy to read and engaging to boot.

A Must-Read for Emerging Businesses

This planner fantastically fills the void for craft-based businesses like my own that are ready to take the next steps beyond trunk shows and online shopping but don't know the best practices. I picked up Craft Inc. Business Planner when I was ready to transition my business to wholesaling. The planner became my go-to resource for preparing for my first tradeshow in Vegas this past week; without it I would have been far less prepared! I'll continue to review the planner to learn about post-show followup, getting more press, and more. Also, I love the cheery, clean design of the planner! Good design always lifts up the content. The yellow type on white only occurs at the section dividers and is still legible. Look past it and you'll see that the book is an invaluable resource and definitely worth purchasing!

Very Useful

I bought this business planner because I greatly enjoyed Meg Ilasco's Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business and you should really consider getting both because they really compliment each other well. This planner is most useful for someone just starting their craft business it's still very helpful for more established businesses to help bring things into focus. I haven't finished all the sections yet (and a few like tradeshows aren't yet applicable to me) what I have filled out has helped me better organize my business. For someone who organization is difficult laying everything out in the planner is great motivation. I do have to concede that the use of yellow text on white paper on the section table of contents is quite hard to read it doesn't greatly effect it's usefulness since none of the actual workbook pages have this color combination. On recommendation for anyone getting this planner is to make sure you fill things out in pencil so you can later update it as things change.