Find your customer that wants the exact leathergoods that you make and build the leather business of your dreams.
If you’ve ever tried to learn something on your own, you know it can be hard. And it’s no different with leatherwork.
Instead of wasting money buying the wrong tools and materials and spending hours on a project only to be disappointed with your stitching, join me at this free workshop that i’m hosting called Traditional Leatherwork Framework.
Read more to find out how you can save your seat!
Read MoreIf you’ve ever felt discouraged by the end result of your saddle-stitching because you’ve produce sloppy and crooked stitches or if the actual act of saddle-stitching has left you physically exhausted, you might be making one or more of these 6 mistakes.
In order to avoid producing sloppy stitches and bring the fun back into your saddle-stitching practice here are some tips that will help you produce the most beautiful saddle-stitching with ease.
Read MoreWant to get into traditional leatherwork but not sure how?
In this post i’ll show you how you can get started with traditional leatherwork without having to spend hours and hours googling and without having to spend thousands on an inperson workshop, like I did.
If you want a roadmap for how to get started, this post is for you.
Read MoreHave you ever gotten stuck when it comes to pricing your handmade leathergoods?
Do you want to get started selling your leathergoods but the thought of figuring out what to charge holds you back?
Maybe the thought of pricing even makes you feel a little sick?
Click to read more and sign up for the LIVE pricing workshop. Here i’ll show you how to apply formulas (don't worry, the math is easy!) so you can feel good about how you’re pricing your leathergoods.
Say goodbye to second guessing your pricing and being fearful of customer response.
Read MoreI get asked this question a lot: “What are the most profitable leathergoods to make and sell?”
It’s a good question but the problem with this question is, it’s suggests that there is one type of person who likes one type of leathergood.
Now obviously that is not true! There are countless niche markets and audience groups that are all going to have their best sellers.
While I would love to tell you, make THIS leathergood and you WILL sell out, sadly, thats not how it works.
What might sell out for you, might be a really hard sell for me and my audience!
In this article i’ll tell you which questions you should be asking instead, and how to nail down the most profitable leathergoods to make for your leather business.
Read MoreStarting and running a business is hard, yes but if you're not turning a profit after 4 years, I gotta tell you, you're definitely missing some key steps in your business foundation.
Here are three KEY things that really shifted my business from a hobby to a profitable business and allowed me to take it to the next level.
Read MoreWhen I asked my fellow leatherworkers a while back what the #1 thing was that was holding them back from starting their leathergoods business, I was shocked at the responses.
I got responses about needing inventory first, figuring out how to make customers value my leathergoods and need a large upfront investment first.
Guess what?
These are myths! None of these statements are true!
If any of these things are what is holding you back from starting your dream leather business, please keep reading!
Read MoreImposter Syndrome is the fear of being exposed as a fraud and I would be willing to bet, that you’ve experienced this feeling of being a fraud, of not being good enough or of not having leathergoods that are worthy of selling at some point or other.
This imposter syndrome might have led you to think to yourself, “who am I to start a leather business?”
If you’ve ever felt this way or are currently feeling this way, here are 5 tips for dealing with Imposter syndrome and not letting it get in your way of starting a leather business.
Read MoreImagine that you have a leathegood that you love making. It’s a wallet that you made that you’re super proud of. Making this wallet has given you nothing but pride and joy and now you want to share that pride and joy with the world! I mean who wouldn’t want a piece of this pride and joy, right? Who wouldn’t be willing to pay for a piece of this pride and joy, right??
Wrong. Sadly, no. And actually, this kind of backward thinking can leave you feeling rejected and discouraged.
As you probably already know…
if you don’t know who your customer is first and foremost, you’re going to have an uphill battle when it comes to selling your leathergoods.
Read MoreOne of the biggest challenges that new leather business owners have is pricing their work.
It’s a challenge for good reason. There are many different ways that you can price your leatherwork and determining which of these strategies you will use depends on your business model, who your audience and ideal customer is and who you are serving.
There are more than a handful of people on youtube and other blogs all over the internet telling you that their way to price is the best way to price. But who should you believe? Which pricing method is actually right for your leather business?
Read MoreA lot of leathersmiths make the mistake of trying to build a leather business by making leathergoods that they like to make and then trying to sell said leathergoods to anyone and everyone that will listen.
But the problem with this is that your focus is on what YOU like to make and NOT what your customer needs or wants.
Your focus is on you when it needs to be on your customer.
Read MoreHave you ever started to get a panicked feeling from looking at your to-do list, realizing that you haven’t accomplished anything yet this month? So then you start going through it frantically, looking for the EASIEST tasks that you can complete just so you can make yourself feel productive and like you’ve accomplished something this month?
Instead of doing this, what we need is a plan to get your small leathergoods business tasks prioritized so that you’re working on the most important and impactful tasks (the ones that are going to actually move the needle) done first.
Read MoreHave you ever heard that saying, “throw it at the wall until something sticks?” Meaning lets try ALL OF THE THINGS until we finally find a thing that seems to work. Yea, that’s basically how I started my online handmade business ten years ago. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, let alone how to make a business strategy so I just figured this is how you do it, right? You do ALL OF THE THINGS until something works. Well that’s ONE WAY you can choose to run a business, sure (I hope you like frustration!) but there’s a better way…
Read MoreI came across an article a few weeks ago in one of the many handmade business and marketing focused Facebook groups that I belong to. The article was titled, The Modern Trap of Turning Hobbies Into Hustles.
Two things immediately got my attention.
The first thing that caught my attention was the title of this article. The Modern Trap of… Trap??
Starting a small business to help support me financially as well as provide the freedom from the 9-5 has been anything but a trap for me!
Are you falling into this modern trap?
Read MoreDoes who you follow on Instagram really matter?
Should you be following your friends, family and those awesome people who post photos of their lunch and their pets?
OR
could you be using a more strategic follow strategy?
The answer is yes, it does matter and there is absolutely a strategy behind who you follow on Instagram and it’s quite simple.
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