Since the publication of The Handmade Marketplace in 2010 and Grow Your Handmade Business in 2012, Kari Chapin has gained national visibility as a sought-after speaker at craft business conferences and events. She also offers one-on-one creative coaching and courses online. She is known for her effective coaching style and distinctive, supportive voice, along with her strong ability to market and network.
Kari Chapin covers a variety of essential business areas such as
mapping out a business plan, expanding production and distribution,
finding funding, and addressing legal matters. Ms Chapin's
marketing background and her "can do" attitude provides craftsmen
the tools to grow their hobby into a successful business. Easy to
read and well organized, this book provides practical advice for
getting started or how to grow an established business. If your
goal is move your creative business out of your dining room, then
let this be your guide.--Living Crafts
Crafters and artists or those thinking about turning a hobby into a
career will find sound, practical advice here.--Handweaver's Guild
of America
If you've decided to make 2013 the year you turn your crafting
passion into a moneymaking venture, be sure to add Kari Chapin's
Grow Your Handmade Business to your required-reading list.--Jay
McCarroll, fashion designer, fabric designer, Project Runway season
1 winner
It's an essential addition to an indie biz owner's
bookshelf!--Hobby Farm Home
Kari has cut through the puffed up, polysyllabic language and
posturing that most business books spin that makes it all seem like
some secret society. She makes the big stuff all seem doable. Plus
if you are still stuck, she introduces you to a whole bunch of
people who can help.--Northshore Women's Lifestyle
The style of this book is crisp and refreshing. Chapin's thoughts
are invitingly readable and each chapter includes sound, practical
advice from the Creative Collective as well. If you have ever
wondered if you could actually make a living at your creative
craft, Chapin has a wealth of answers for you.--San Francisco/
Sacramento Book Review
This book will help take your business from the kitchen table to
fulfilling your individualized dream of a fulfilling, meaningful,
and lucrative creative business.--Bead & Button
Thiswonderful book cheers you on and coaches you on how to make a
livelihood from your passion, including stories from other creative
people, their struggles, successes, and advice. That's not all, she
also covers the business side, including developing budgets,
strategies, and also funding. If you've always dreamed of having
your own craft business, or already have one and are looking into
the next step, this is definitely worth checking out.--Miss
Modish
Whether you sell your art out of a swanky studio, populate your
Etsy shop with stuff you make at your kitchen table, or just dream
about doing something along those lines, Kari Chapin has a word of
advice: plan. As is a business plan! In Grow Your Handmade
Business, you'll learn what creative people like yourself need to
plan for in turning a hobby into a business. The book is readable,
approachable, and supplemented by tips, tricks, and confessions
from 24 other entrepreneurially minded folks.--Lisa Congdon,
artist, illustrator, author of A Collection a Day
Carefully defining such differences as "goals" versus "intentions"
and "business" versus "personal," Chapin draws the reader up
through successive layers of consciousness, moving steadily toward
that crucial juncture where what you do and how you think are
absolutely in harmony. It is right at this point where you can
"grow your business," just as if you were tending a garden. There's
no mystery to the process, just a vigilant management of many
tasks, all of which work together toward simple sustainability.
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