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Time For A Spring Clean
Spring is in the air and restrictions are starting to ease. You may have been lucky enough to able to trade during the various lockdowns of the last year, or you may have been forced to take some unscheduled time off while waiting for things to get back to normal. Either way there is one […]
Confessions of a New Etsy Seller
At the time of writing it is mid-January 2021. The UK is back in lockdown after the Christmas period to curtail the rise in Covid cases. The last 2 months have been somewhat of a whirlwind for me. I have barely had a chance to think since mid-November as I have been so busy. Oddly […]
Finding a Silver Linings – Originally Published in ‘Acomb Alive’ Nov 2020
This article was originally published in the November edition of the Acomb Alive traders magazine. Acomb Alive is a bi-monthly magazine for the traders and community in the Acomb area of York, where I live and have my studio. I have been contributing to it for the past year.
How Business Has Adapted Over Lockdown
There is an old Chinese proverb that goes a little something like this: ‘When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.’ I know, I know, I sound very wise (and more than a little pretentious). However, the point is apt to the current situation. At the moment in […]
The FedEx Fiasco or Learn How Not To Treat Customers From Big Businesses
Rant Warning! Recently I made a pretty big purchase. I bought a new piece of equipment for my business that is probably the single biggest purchase I have ever made outside of a car or a house. In case you curious, what I bought was a laser cutter, that allows me to cut and engrave […]
Doing Business Locally
Something that I wanted to focus on when I started out in my own business was to help support businesses in my local community, York and Yorkshire as a whole. For the most part, my clients have fallen into these areas, with a few odd jobs reaching out to further afield. On top of that […]
The Risks Of An Outdated Website
I’ve seen it, its the future! The internet has been around for a while now. We are all pretty used to using it on a daily basis for everything from shopping to communicating and organising our lives. Even our fridges and ovens have wifi connections (for some reason) So, ‘the net’ as we used to […]
Covid-19 Part 4 – Looking Good On Webcam
It has been said before that war is often the driving force for technological innovation, and if the battle against the Coronavirus is going to improve anything (aside from, ya know medicine), its remote video communications. All of a sudden we have all been thrown into the limelight online. Every meeting is now taking place […]
Covid-19 Part 3 – Feel the learn – Use your lockdown time to expand your skillset.
A Lot of people seem to be operating in a sort of holding pattern at the moment, waiting for the current crisis to blow over so they can get back to work and back to normal life. It seems to me that this is the time to be preparing for when life gets back to […]