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Thanks, Jess, so it should already be in my emails, right? I'll go check.

Hi @tanja-osswald! We don't actually put that course in the Library, but we send it out for free to all Starship Captains, via e-mail, each year about early to mid-November. So just watch your inbox and you'll get it there!
Thanks!

Awesome, @shelley-husband!

And thanks, Jill!

Just a small tip from me to add to all the wonderful advice – this is what I do. I write my to do lists in my planner- i sit down once a week and list my tasks for the coming week. The tip is instead of crossing off stuff that's done – highlight it instead. This way you can still see what it was you did and can use it to look back at…[Read more]

I track all of my biz stuff in my bullet journal – from daily/weekly/monthly to-do lists to weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual review and planning, map-making, goals, etc.

Of course I'm not always on top of it and don't always do each thing on that list 😉

When I do a review (for any of those time periods), I always have a section for…[Read more]

Whatcha workin on?
This week my focus is getting things done for my next CAL – writing, photos, videos. I've been planning it so long, I need to stop making lists of what I need to do and start actually doing. LOL Pattern is designed and tested – just my stuff to do.

Plan on starting wrangle your time this week -if back to day job this week…[Read more]

Oh my! I have just looked at my blog stats for the first time in a while – I've cracked 1 million all time views! Woohoo!

It's kinda blowing my mind LOL.

Oh my! I have just looked at my blog stats for the first time in a while – I've cracked 1 million views! Woohoo!

It's kinda blowing my mind LOL.

Oh my! I have just looked at my blog stats for the first time in a while – I've cracked 1 million views! Woohoo!

It's kinda blowing my mind LOL.

Thanks @james-bartley 🙂 You've done well – it's very good at explaining what you do 🙂

I was thinking of taking the the sm icons out too and putting them in the sidebar. I was planning to put them up in the header so they are in the same place everywhere on my site. I might be able to move them up a little, but don't remember if that's in the theme options or not. I know I was able to tweek where my logo was a little.

I've had…[Read more]

I've started keeping all my inventory in Square, that way when I sell something at shows it takes it out of my inventory. When I'm getting ready to dye more I choose my colorways and search for them and write down the bases I have them in so I don't dye more (this way all in one base is one dye lot).

As for ordering bases, I look at how much…[Read more]

Without trying to rewrite it for you, since I don't really know you, I would say that you could re-order what you already have to make a big change.

Switch it so it goes: paragraph 3, then 4, then 2, then 1. I'd suggest scrapping 1 altogether to be honest.

Now the pertinent personal info is up close, followed by an example of your work,…[Read more]

I'm not a yarn seller at all, but here's my tuppence worth.

Work out your average sell at your previous shows, then multiply that by the shows you have coming. Add 10% if you can risk it / you can afford it – to plan for the best outcome. Use any common sense info you have to hand to tweak the number. I.e. you know one show is small and has…[Read more]

I had a quick google and found this:

https://www.businessformtemplate.com/preview/Monthly_Bookkeeping_Record

It's not exactly cute, but it's a simple sheet to start writing stuff on.

Just from reading your post, it sounds like you've other content that you could highlight. Get them to visit more of the site, realise that you have a wealth of information beyond this one post, so maybe they want to come back, subscribe?

Re: Newsletter – make it clear why they want to sign up, based on this post – e.g. will you say that you've…[Read more]

For me, it's a question of what you want me to look at. In the FTK one, I start by looking at your name then the menu. In this sense, it establishes who you are before I start browsing, which is a good idea, and a reason I would support the FTK header.

(I don't like the placement of the SM icons in the FTK one though, they cramp the wording and…[Read more]

Since it's a goal, it doesn't need to be perfect – it can be changed as you learn more. So I would say that picking a number that you currently believe will cover costs is a perfectly fine number to work with. If that number changes, then you update your goal, and your plans, accordingly.

If you start to exceed that goal – what a lovely problem…[Read more]

Alt text is really useful for visually impaired users, since it is a text description of the image. How much time you put into it is upto you, but it wants to be a description of what can be seen, e.g. a green and yellow striped skein of yarn – since google will probably use that to help with searches, I imagine it would be a good SEO tool too?