Sarah J. Doyle | June 28, 2010
Considering the number of pregnant women I see whenever I’m out in public places, AND remembering how difficult it was to find any type of maternity clothes or maternity patterns when my daughter was pregnant with quadruplets, I’d say specializing in making maternity clothes could be very lucrative! I see pregnant women that are plus [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 24, 2010
Everyone knows that simply having a website doesn’t necessarily generate sales. The key to keeping that website alive and growing is all about traffic! When individuals visit your website / blog and like what they see, they’ll most likely come back again and again. A good way to get that traffic coming back is by [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | May 3, 2010
Well, the tax filing season is finished for this year (for taxes LAST year), however there is plenty of time to think about what to keep THIS year for tax purposes. I don’t know if you ended up getting a refund of some sort or had to pay, however the business receipts you keep can [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | April 27, 2010
I’ll bet you’re wondering just HOW can you grow / build a business just by giving great customer service! Think about your customers for a minute — how do they feel about you and your customer service? Are you quick to respond to them? Do you take care of small issues before they become big [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | April 5, 2010
If you are one of those who do work for customers, make things to sell at craft shows or make and sell your wares online, AND if you keep track of your expenses and income, you are probably one of many of us who are wondering……. “Where has the profit gone???” We were a vendor [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | February 15, 2010
Anybody who is in the sewing/crafting/alterations business would probably laugh at the title of this post. In the past I would have laughed as well. Denise, over at ShopperStrategy has a post entitled “How To Make $100/Hour Clipping Coupons” that I found very interesting. Apparently the Wall Street Journal has an article written by Brett [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | December 14, 2009
If you have a business where you can issue a “coupon”, you’ll be on the road to additional sales! A few years ago we sent out “gift certificates” in the amount of $5.00 or $10.00 good on the customers’ next purchase from our catalog, or listing of books in the back cover of a book [...]
S. Denise Hoyle | October 13, 2009
1) Find Your Niche Some people think that focusing on a niche is thinking too small, but having a niche product line is actually a wonderful thing! If you really want to compete with Sears and Toys ‘R Us, you can do that by offering better customer service or by providing more guarantees, but it [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | October 12, 2009
How many days have you had lately that you just couldn’t “get in gear” to get anything done? Have you felt like you were just “wandering” and “wondering” and accomplishing nothing? Unfortunately that happens more often than we’d like to admit when we’re working out of our homes. I’d like to offer a few tips to [...]
Sarah J. Doyle | September 14, 2009
How often in all the years of your home business have you been hit with something so totally out of your control that it literally knocked you off your feet? That’s what’s recently happened to me and I can’t even believe I was so “wiped out” that I couldn’t even do my share of the [...]
