Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Biz Ladies regular, Andrea Baxter, owner of Bratface Marketing and co-founder of Smart Cookies. Andrea has previously contributed posts on how to brand your business on a budget; trendsetters, influencers and connectors; sole proprietorship vs. incorporation and how to use social media to humanize your brand. Today she confronts a sometimes confusing topic, the difference…
Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Tara Gentile, the DIY culture and lifestyle design expert of Scoutie Girl. Tara has previously contributed to the Biz Ladies series with her post on tips and reasons for creating digital products for your business, and today she shares with us 10 misconceptions and strategies for stellar email marketing. In addition…
Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Amy Barickman, the founder and owner of Indygo Junction and The Vintage Workshop. Recently named one of Country Living magazine’s prestigious Creative Women Entrepreneurs, Amy is a leader in the sewing, needle-arts and retail-crafting industry, and her newest project, the book Vintage Notions: An Inspirational Guide to Needlework, Cooking,…
Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Jordan Moore, an Internet marketing consultant who works with artists and crafters to grow their businesses online. She authored the best-selling ebook The Etsy Kit, a collection of tutorials designed for artists looking to expand their businesses using etsy.com, and maintains a marketing blog. Jordan offers us some helpful…
Today’s Biz Ladies post comes from Rebecca Kutys of Moontree Letterpress in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Together with Breck Hostetter of Sesame Letterpress, Rebecca began a joint venture called “Brooklyn Social Cards” to create letterpress business cards for clients. In this post, Rebecca offers some do’s and don’ts to business card design. From the appropriate information, to…
today we are blessed with yet another great post by biz ladies regular meg touborg of design investors llc. educating us on various topics like creating a compelling work environment, forming successful biz partnerships, making a strategic biz plan, successful biz dev and first time funding, meg is now enlightening us on effective grand opening marketing practices to…
i am excited to welcome back kate caprari of three square design for another great biz ladies post (check out her previous post about getting your buisness online). kate is a web designer and digital ad expert, and works with many of design*sponge’s advertisers to perfect their online presence. she is celebrating the launch of…
Hey ladies! This will be different from my usual once a year post on D*S, because unlike my gift guides, (which are basically just me listing out things that I personally want or already own) – I’m actually a little bit more qualified to talk about this subject. As a digital marketing professional, I manage…
today’s biz ladies posts are taking a special turn today to focus on advertising- from both the perspective of buying and selling. and we’re keeping it in the family- i’m going to be tackling advertising 101 for bloggers and my sweet husband ac will be handling advertising 101 for artists, designers and shop/business owners. he’s…
today the lovely ladies of loaded bow are sharing some great business advice with us. we’ve gotten nitty gritty with accounting, income organizing and public relations, but today we’re going to take a time-out to think about the big picture, and focus on telling our businesses’ story- and finding the most authentic (and accurate) way…
today’s first biz ladies post is quite simply a MUST READ. i know that personally, i am horrible at selling my own business. i get uncomfortable when i have to pitch myself in any situation and choose instead to avoid that sort of conversation all together. but if you run your own business or are…
[today's second biz ladies post comes from ivie parker of parker-sims interiors. in the coming weeks i'll be posting a guide to blogging series- it was way too long for one post. my apologies for the delay, i just want to make sure i get it right before posting] Within our current economy, many of…
