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.

I hate making phone calls.

As a business owner, time is money. But, like money, finding more of it can be a struggle. Cutting corners where you can frees you up to focus on more important parts of your business.

If you sell online through your Wordpress website, then chances are you are using WooCommerce. Their platform covers over 42% of all eCommerce sites, so it's quite easy to see why.

eBay, a name that is synonymous with buying and selling almost anything, has it all! Be that new car or a lock of Justin Bieber's hair, search for it and you'll find it.

Optimising conversion rates is key to making your eCommerce business flourish. Without CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation) you can have all the traffic in the world, but little or no leads.

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.