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Creative Business Resource Guide ~ a Callout for Ebooks, Ecourses, Books and Blogs!

by | Apr 21, 2012 | Crafty Biz | 17 comments

Have you ever gotten stuck on some aspect of your business and thought ‘I wish there was a book/ebook/ecourse about that’?

Well, chances are that there is! But the trouble is finding it.

Enter the Creative Business Resource Guide!

I’ve wanted to put this together for a while, because I keep finding so many fabulous creative business resources around the web… and then losing them again.

So, I’ve started gathering them all together – and it’s no fun to keep that list to myself, is it? I want to put together a guide showcasing the best creative business ebooks, books, ecourses and blogs to help all my fellow creative biz peeps find the resources they need for the challenges they face.

So, today, I’m putting out a call-out – can you help me? I know about a lot of great resources already, but I’m SURE there are a ton out there that I’ve not yet come across!

If you know of a fabulous creative biz resource:

  • Please leave a comment below with the type of resource (book, ebook, ecourse, blog, podcast etc) so I can easily categorise it
  • Please leave the name of the resource – and, even better! – a link to it! (Please limit it to 1-2 links per comment, otherwise my spam filter might steal away your comment and I will never see it…)
  • YES, you can link to your own blog/product!
  • YES please do share this post around on twitter, pinterest, FB, google + etc – the wider we can spread the net, the better the guide will be!
  • YES please include anything you think might be relevant – it doesn’t have to be specifically about online crafty business – just creative business in general
  • YES please leave your own thoughts/review of the thing you are recommending – I’d love to hear your perspective!

My goal is to make this THE best list of creative business awesomeness – but I can’t do it without your help! 

I’ll do another post once I’ve launched the guide. YES, it will be free and ever-changing – I’ll be hosting it here on the site, and probably offer a free pdf download version for safekeeping, too!

Thank you SO much for helping me out with this, guys and gals – with your input we can create something uber-helpful for us all!

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17 Comments

  1. Chrissy Poitras
    Chrissy Poitras on April 21, 2012 at 8:40 am

    Hi,

    This is a great idea! It is one that we have been thinking about too. We have our Business of Art blog (http://bit.ly/HW3u01) and our Emerging Artist Guide (http://sparkboxstudio.com/emergingartistguide/). Both speak to fine artists and craft artists. Plus we talk about working in Canada which is harder to find information about online 🙂

    Good luck and please let us know when this comes together.

    Chrissy

  3. Fashion Stella
    Fashion Stella on April 21, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    It is easy to get caught up in the creative side and neglect the business side. The Australian Tax Office offers free seminars and workshops that are very informative. They also offer free e-tax/accounting software that you can download.

  4. kass hall
    kass hall on April 21, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    http://www.hellosoulhellobusiness.com

    I thought this was drastically over priced but took it because they had a money back guarantee. It was worth every single solitary cent. Brilliant. The sheer volume of information and activities has been overwhelming – better than any uni course or book I’ve read.

  8. Sally
    Sally on April 23, 2012 at 6:44 am

    Laura Simms of Create as Folk, and her video snippets of excellent career/business advice. Also her wonderful Roadmap to Action. Gorgeous, useful and you get to choose how much you want to pay for it.

  13. Jo Cameron
    Jo Cameron on April 24, 2012 at 3:56 am

    I get weekly updates from Rena Tom, retail strategy, trends and inspiration for creative businesses
    http://renatom.net/
    It’s a fabulous wealth of information.
    Can’t wait for the definitive guide Jess!

  16. Michelle
    Michelle on April 28, 2012 at 6:31 am

    I read Megan Auman’s Designing an MBA (http://designinganmba.com) and Retail Recipes (http://retailrecipes.com). Auman’s site also has several e-courses and e-books on marketing and business growth. It’s really good!

    I second Rena Tom’s website, too!