paying the bills with your passion...part III..take note of you're a creativpreneur!

Some of you have been following my column in Where Women Create: BUSINESS

 called...

"Turning Your Passion into Your Paycheck"

If so -- TAKE NOTE -- Part III has just dropped onto the newsstands and it's packed with tips and tools for MARKETING YOUR HANDMADE BUSINESS...

...many of you don't know that my formal training is in Urban Planning -- yep -- even have the Masters and the Professional License (AICP) -- 
but that may not seem to match with what I do everyday with Earth Angels Studios...

But it does! It does!  Why??? 

My specialization in Planning is in small business economic development... that means, I know how to help business grow through garnering sales, how they market and how they position themselves within the economy as makers and manufacturers...

So now -- instead of working with food and fashion liked I used to in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn when I lived in Queens -- I work with handmade and have since I started my dabbling in 1994 as a hobby business...

I went full time into Earth Angels in 2000 when I had my first kiddo and have not looked back.... Soooo it' really nice for me to have the opportunity to come full-circle and share my business development know-how in this four part series called 

"Paying the Bills with Your Passion"

(you can catch the prior columns -- Parts I & II --

 in the July and October issues...)

 
A big thanks to Editor in Chief, Jo Packham, for the opportunity to share my experience and know-how in this column...

It's been a joy for me to work on these articles to encourage artful entrepreneurship.

You can order copies of the magazine HERE

And thanks to all for your support of my work at Earth Angels...

xo Jen

...if you're a fellow artful entreprenuer...or want to be one...

...if you're a fellow artful entrepreneur...

or want to be one...

I hope you'll consider giving my column a read.

Jo Packham has another absolutely stellar magazine --  Where Women Create: BUSINESS 

...and I could not be more proud to be included...

Part II of my column 

"Paying Your Bills with Your Passion" 

is out on the journey of to artful entrepreneurship...

I hope you'll consider picking up a copy of the latest issue and reading it...

(find it on my site or Jo's site if it's not at your local newsstand or sold out in Michael's, Lowes, AC Moore, Hobby Lobby, etc)

Thanks to all of you for your encouragement to share my experience in the filed of handmade and my expertise in small business development...

Working on the column is pure joy for me...as is working with the many artists I have be fortunate to manage, coach, do business with over the years...

xo Jen

...my column is on the newsstands...are you an Artful Entrepreneur???

...many of you don't know that my formal training is in Urban Planning -- yep -- even have the Masters and the Professional License (AICP) -- 
but that may not seem to match with what I do everyday with Earth Angels Studios...

But it does! It does!  Why??? 

My specialization in Planning is in small business economic development... that means, I know how to help business grow through garnering sales, how they market and how they position themselves within the economy as makers and manufacturers...

So now -- instead of working with food and fashion liked I used to in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn when I lived in Queens -- I work with handmade and have since I started my dabbling in 1994 as a hobby business...

I went full time into Earth Angels in 2000 when I had my first kiddo and have not looked back.... 

Soooo it' really nice for me to have the opportunity to come full-circle and share my business development know-how in a four part series called 

"Paying the Bills with Your Passion"

A huge thanks to Jo Packham of 

Where Women Create: BUSINESS 

for the opportunity to write this new column on artful entrepreneur....

Part I is on how to turn a hobby business 

(yes, just like I did) into a legitimate one...with research and evaluation of the market and your goods!

You can read the entire article in the July issue... 

get the mag on my site or at WhereWomenCreate.com

 

....and the October Issue has just hit the newsstands with Part II  of my column -- more on that soon

...and hope you can catch these pieces if they are relevant to you as you start or grow your own handmade business....

xo Jen

woo hoo Lucy! Congrats on piece in WWC

I am long overdue in saying a hearty congrats to LUCY her fab piece that appeared recently in Where Women Create magazine...

The days are escaping me, no the MONTHS are escaping me, and it seems like a forever ago that I met Lucy via phone when she reached out for business development assistance...

Her salvage business and re-purposed jewelry line were developing in multiple directions and she needed to focus, make some tough decisions and move forward in the right direction...

She surely has!

Love that she has made such great strides and loved that I could help celebrate this in print!

...Lucy has done incredibly things in sharing her style and her work goes so far beyond creating wearable art for her business, "Lucy's Inspired" 

It was great to be able to dedicate my column -- "The Business of the Studio" -- to Lucy!

 Her "Inspired to Give" project is explored in the article in depth and this brings me joy...hope you can read more about it in the magazine...

 Thanks Jo Packham for the opportunity to celebrate Lucy and her artful entrepreneurship...

You can see more of Lucy's creations on our site...

here's a link to her page.

Thanks Lucy...it's a treat to work with you

...and an honor to know you...

xo Jen

...happy news from Finding Home Farms...

I've admired and appreciated Laura Putnam...

her style, her creative savvy 

and her spirit for all the years 

I have followed her blog Finding Home Farms... 

Her sign-off always makes me pause...

Knowing Laura, this signature and sentiment is sincere and true...it leaves me feeling stronger, 

and more grateful,

 to greet my day and whatever it brings.

So how wonderful it was for me to feature Laura's business journey in my "Business of the Studio" column in Where Women Create magazine.

A heartfelt thank to Jo Packham for the opportunity to share Laura's charming and festive studio space

...as well as all of her exciting news and business developments for Finding Home Farms...and a peek at their sugar house and what they're making there!

It was a treat to spend time with 

Laura and her husband Dana...

I love, truly love, how they are working to mesh her blog, his dream of maple syrup production and her DIY expertise into a lifestyle brand...

This is exciting stuff and something worth sharing...

I hope you'll pick up the current issue 

of Where Women Create to read more...

...and visit FindingHomeFarms.com to learn more about all they're doing to fill their 

days with grace and good business...

and how they're working to share their 

family's lifestyle lessons and goods 

with Laura's blog followers 

and their customers. 

xo Jen