Etsy Shop Tune-Up

Free mini course to help you with your etsy shop! Five tips to help you rock your shop, each in an email, with a day in between. Each easy to implement. No stress. I won’t sell or share your email address and I won’t spam you. But please be sure to add my email (tm@triciamckellar.com) [...]

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Business Plan: Market Analysis

Operation Business Plan. Let’s get started on your market analysis! Your market analysis is an assessment of the potential market for your products and services. Information on your market, your ideal customer, and your competition sets the stage for your marketing plan (how to get the word out about your awesome sauce). This post is [...]

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Does Getting Up Early Make You More Successful?

Does the early bird catch the worm? Does getting up early make you more successful? Of the people you know that you would consider movers and shakers, people who get things done, do they get up early? Do you know successful people who sleep in? Regularly? The people I know who are getting things done [...]

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Free Publicity with HARO

How do you find your die-hard fans? How do you find the people that are desperately seeking your magnificent sock monkeys (or whatever your fabulous product is)? We’ve talked about contacting bloggers and asking them to write about you. But how can you reach media peeps that are looking for you? And do it for [...]

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Link Love Friday: Twitter & Money

Happy Friday Wonder Thinkers! A couple of awesome reads for your weekend: Is twitter is worth it? Tara Gentile of Scoutie Girl answers. A must read for the tweet agnostic. Danielle LaPorte of White Hot Truth gets real with money. Love this. Image: Industrial Decay. Bain No. 0046. Original photograph by Tricia McKellar. © All [...]

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Business Plan: Products & Services

Operation Business Plan. Your mission today is to describe your products and services. This post is part of a series on writing your business plan. Subscribe to my mailing list to get instant access to download the free Wonder Thinking Business Plan-o-Rama workbook and get working on your business plan! Describe your products and services [...]

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Getting Eyes on Your Etsy Shop: Join a Treasury Team

Are you selling on Etsy? Would you like more traffic to your shop? Join a treasury team. Treasury teams are groups of sellers who promote each other’s items by creating treasuries. This is a fabulous way to get eyes on your shop. What’s a treasury? A curated group of items. Anyone can make treasuries. The [...]

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Where Does Your Time Go? Practical Time Management with a Log

What did you do in 2010? Have you looked at your numbers? Did you sell x number of items? Did you meet your sales goals? Are you happy with your profits? I did a lot of different things in my creative business in 2010. Many of those things I can quantify– I can see which [...]

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Business Plan: Vision & Mission

Operation Business Plan. Vision. Mission. This is the good stuff, the part where you summarize your business and talk about the things that make you tick. You probably have ideas about your vision and mission already. The purpose of writing them down is threefold: – to identify and clarify your ideas by writing them down; [...]

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Writing a Business Plan

Do you have a business plan? Is it like mine? A collection of brilliant & amazing ideas. In. Your. Head. Plans in my head are always awesome. Plans written down are subject to thoughtful inspection. Sigh. I have no written business plan. It’s been easy to ignore. It’s been easy to have a vague idea [...]

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