Many people dream of quitting the 9-5 and turning their hobby into sustainable income or career.

But it often feels like there’s too much of a learning curve and too many barriers in the way.

They often don’t know much about running or marketing a business, they’re not sure their ideas would ever work, and they’re worried that they just couldn’t earn enough money to make ends meet.

However, this needn’t be the case. With some focus and dedication, you can start making money from doing what you love and become like the one in six small businesses in the UK that are hobbies turned into successful businesses.

Here are some tips on how you can do the same, plus some encouraging success stories along the way.

Dream of chucking it all in so you can follow your passion and start your own online craft business?

You’re not alone.

Many of us wish we could turn our creativity and skills into a money maker, instead of just something we do on the weekend.

But when you first get started, it’s hard to know how to make enough money online so that it doesn’t just provide you with handy extra cash but replaces your regular income, pays the bills and gives you enough to live the life you dream of.

How to Start a Craft Business

Making the leap to self-employment and starting a craft business is always an exciting and daunting prospect.

You would get to do exactly what you love, use your creativity to produce beautiful things, become your own boss and make money at the same time. What could be better?

But it all seems like too much work to get started, especially if you’re not a business-minded person and you’re far from being clued up when it comes to technology.

Let’s change all that today. Let’s break down exactly what you need to do to start a craft business in easy-to-understand steps so you can start making that dream a reality.

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This is the second episode in our series of how to launch an eCommerce website in a day. In this episode we will be talking about our choice of free plugins that we recommend for creating an eCommerce website in Wordpress. Missed the last episode? Read our introduction to the series.

Introduction

The European Union has taken a monumental step in protecting the fundamental right to privacy for every EU resident with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be effective from May 25, 2018. Simply put, EU residents will now have greater say over what, how, why, where, and when their personal data is used, processed, or disposed. This rule clarifies how the EU personal data laws apply even beyond the borders of the EU. Any organisation that works with EU residents' personal data in any manner, irrespective of location, has obligations to protect the data. Perspective Design is well aware of its role in providing the right tools and processes to support its users and customers meet their GDPR mandates.

How It Began

Back in January, we set ourselves the challenge of launching a fully functioning eCommerce website in a day!

In case you missed the news, Google have made some big changes to their search algorithms for 2017. This gives us a lot of things to be thinking about to keep our websites up to date and working well. Let's have a quick look at what it means for your website to be mobile friendly and what you can do to check if your website is up to scratch.

This is the seventh and final episode in our series on creating a great blog. Today we will be looking at the tools and techniques to publicise content. In the last episode I talked about how to write great content.

This is the sixth episode in our series on creating a great blog. In this episode we will address how to write great content for your blog posts. In the last episode I talked about the importance of choosing your keywords. If you are keeping up with the articles you will now have a list of blog posts with targeted keywords for each one. If not, then why not go back and complete the keyword research first.