Wednesday’s Challenge

By John SanPietro Building Your Stamping Business – Four Destructive Myths Building your stamping business can be difficult under the best circumstances.  However, it becomes much more difficult when you factor some very common, preconceived notions about how to best run our business into the mix. These are ideas and theories we've heard so often,…

Do You Need Inspiration? Have you Hit a Creative Block?   Do you? Love to stamp but just don't have the time? Do you live to far away to attend my classes? Do you want to get better at your craft and learn new techniques? Do you see a project online and wish you could…

By Jennifer Fong  Happy September! Can you believe it’s here already? I personally could use another month of summer, but am bowing to the inevitability of school supplies, late busses, routines and cold weather. (I really need to move somewhere warmer!) As a direct seller, you need to realize that your customers and prospects are…

From John SanPietro:  I'm often asked what is the biggest marketing mistake business owners make? Is it that they're marketing to the wrong audience… or is it that they're marketing the wrong part of their business? Is it that they're saying the wrong thing in their marketing pieces… or they're not putting out the most…

I have to admit that when I first became a demonstrator, I did not like to do workshops.  But this year I decided that I would come out of my comfort zone and starting doing workshops.   And it gets easier and easier and I have started to enjoy, no in fact, started to love doing…

Here are some things you should either have on hand or have ready to update and get out the door in a FLASH: Business cards; either through MDS (marketing opp for MDS!) or from a vendor  Current promotion flyers Samples to hand out or display Preformatted press releases Thank You For Asking packets*  (see below)…