The Starship Adventure

Does your crafty biz feel like an uninhabitable planet?

Sure, there’s advice on how to  survive on other planets, but no one encourages you to discover your own planet.
What’s next? How do you expand and explore?

Suddenly, you see a shot of light across the sky and *vwwwoopp*,  you’re beamed aboard a light, happy, silly place.
Surrounded by your craftybiz peers, gently guided in your growth, encouraged to go on your own exploration.

Your passion. Your smarts. Your life.

These are  voyages of the Starship Adventure.
Seek out a new life, a new path to success.
Boldly go. To boldly GROW.

Where we collapse into giggle fits over silly metaphors.

You know you’re ready.

You’re selling (or trying to!) your handmade awesomeness.
You’ve read the blog posts.
You’ve checked the books out from your library.
You may have even taken some classes.

And you’ve started to notice some things:

A lot of advice is vague-ish and/or one-size-fits all.
Nothing tells you how to apply it. To you, your biz, your dream.
You don’t know how it all fits together.

But you’re ready to make it happen.

To find new paths (your own path) to profitability.
To explore a new life.
A new way of working and growing and creating.
In a way that suits YOU.
Without shoulds or guilt or make-a-zillion-sales-in-5-days scams.
(because you’re smart, and you know anything good takes time and hard work)

I’ve been on that planet.
I’ve adventured through the space of a sustainable business.

For over 5 years, I’ve crafted a business (and life)  with my handmade yarn business.

First, I built it to be able quit my dayjob.
But 2 months after quitting my dayjob (yay!) my husband lost his job (boo!). And our car exploded. And our house got broken into and evvvverything of value was stolen.

So: I built a business that supports my entire family.

I read the books, the blogs, the smarties.
I experimented and tested and kept track of everything that worked (and didn’t).

I found a community to support me.
To hold me accountable.
To ask those 3am questions.

It took the combination of the learning + the community to make my business fly.

I want you to have the same adventure
(without those scary lost-in-the-darkness-of-space moments).

To make your adventure safer, I’ve combined everything I’ve learned about crafting a sustainable business with a community of your peers + gentle accountability.

I built a Starship and I’d like to invite you aboard.

It’s FULL of classes + worksheets + ideas that you’ll use  to write your OWN pattern for your ideal craftybiz.

What’s included:

• Every class I’ve ever taught. The audio, the summaries, the worksheets. Everything.
  
• An online space to hang out with other craftybiz-ers (if you like!) and ask them (and me!) questions.
• Gentle accountability in the form of twice-monthly chats in the chatroom Holodeck.

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The Starship has sure helped me keep going, even at my (sometimes very) slow pace.

I appreciate knowing that there is an audience out there of supporters and experienced colleagues who can chip in with ideas and thoughts and suggestions about what I might have going on. Or want to have going on, but don’t really yet.

It’s a work in progress!

-Lori-Ann Claerhout, Boreal Trim

What the Starship really does:

Answers your 3 am questions, so you’re not up all night trying to figure out what to do. Your answers may come in the form of a class, a forum post by someone else or, you know, you can always just ask it and someone will be by to help you with it.

Envelops you in the friendly warmth of coworkers without ever actually getting out of your pjs. Yep, everyone in this space is working on the same goal (a craftybiz!) but in our own ways. So whenever you’re feeling lonely or confuzzled, walk out to the water cooler and get some feedback or a cup of tea.

Confirms your own awesomeness. When someone asks a question and you know the answer, you will recognize how much you DO know!

Connects you with resources. Whether it’s the answer to a question or just the person who can help you spread the word, the Starship will be gently hooking you up into a support system that will  biggify you in a million ways.

Not just for a month, but for all of 2012.

Yep, 9 months of membership, classes, check-ins and conversations.

Ready to boldly go?

A 2012 Boarding Pass is 299.

Prefer a payment plan? Click here:

(Payment plan is $50, every 2 weeks, for a total of 6 payments)

Registration closes this Friday, May 4th.

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I love that the Starship is filled with different kinds of crafters, all moving to the same goal: expanding their  knowledge and growing themselves and their business.  And Tara, the  brave leader of our starship, is here to *nurture* us in being  comfortable with our decisions, and *nudge* us to make smart steps  forward.

I’ve grown from a startup with just a few handknit items for sale on Etsy into a  designer of patterns.  My  aspirations have blossomed and being part of the CraftyBiz has helped  keep me on track with the one-on-one guidance, classes, and community.

-Kristine, Kadyellebee.com

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The classes included:

• Map-Making Guide – Step by step plan to take you from where you ARE to where you WANT TO BE. Includes 6 worksheets and 3 colorful maps.
• Busting the Blog Myth: Creating a blog that gets you want you want – My collaboration with Diane of Craftypod.com, this class has 4 days and 6 worksheets to move for your blog from eh to oh yeah!
• Finding + Wooing your Right People – Your guide to finding buyers, keeping them happy, all while staying true to the you-ness that keeps them smitten
• Right People 201: Dig deep into who your Right People are and where you’ll find them.
• Pricing your Handmade Awesomeness – Stop stressing if the price is right. This class includes 3 mathematical ways to find your price AND talks about the harder, emotional stuff that goes into pricing.
• Rock the Shop – Wanna sell to local boutiques? Two hours until you can do it with ease.
• Rock the Show – Stop stressing over the craft show and get your goodness on the road (fun + profitably!)
• Bake Sale Marketing – This is a doozy! 5 hours and a pile of worksheets to walk you through every aspect of spreading the word in a way that feels awesome to YOU.
• How to Make Money – The inside look at everything I do to make money, with tips on branching into more income streams.
• How to love Marketing – Feel icky? I know, it can be gross, which is why I spend an hour reminding you of all the fun, totally you ways to seduce the Right People.
• Delightful Newsletter – Don’t know what to say? or how to get people to sign up? We cover it all in this hour.
•  Holiday Sanity – 4 weeks of planning for your holidays in a no-stress, no-should way. Expect a Cookie Party. yes

The retail price for all that: over $600.
It’s over 20 hours of audio and 24 apply-it-to-YOUR-biz worksheets.

But in the Starship?  $299. TOTAL.

Plus, you’ll get everything new I do in 2012.

This includes

• Updated version of Busting the Blog Myth Diane of Craftypod.com 
• 1/2 off a 2 Day Exploration 
• Weekly accountability check-ins with the other cadets
• More than 1/2 off your 2013 Starship Boarding Pass

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Please note!

None of the classes teach “How to open an etsy shop” or “Editing your pictures” because you’ve already figured that out, or you know where to look for that information. While you’re more than welcome to bring those questions to the other members, the classes + worksheets focus on the deeper stuff.
The how-do-I-grow stuff.
The how-do-I-make-this-sustainable stuff.
The how-do-I-have-fun stuff.

 

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Working with Tara always gets me so excited to keep working – the energy to get stuff done is as invaluable as her advice!

No more Avoidypants!

-Amy, Antemortem Arts

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Need to think it over? Sign up here if you want a reminder before it closes on Friday.