Aside from the occasional craft show or visit to a local stockist, makers largely do their work alone (except maybe a cat walking across your desk or a child tugging at at you). It can be hard to get peer camaraderie and advice from other makers who are more advanced in their career path.
Mentors can be an invaluable to a young and growing business, or to a business looking to make some "next step" leaps. But often they can be hard to find and even fleeting.
It feels like the easy and smartest thing to do when you're stuck-- take a course to help you with whatever it seems like you are struggling with or maybe even peruse the internet for a blog post or podcast for something, anything, to help!
Courses are GREAT! But we see all the time that a lot of people are afraid to make moves in their business and the answer is to course hoard.
Here's why a course might not help you the next time you're feeling stuck.
This week saw two really big changes for makers-- the announcement of a new layout on Etsy and the announcement of Instagram to start using an algorithm. Which has caused quite a bit of panic (particularly around Instagram) on the interwebs.
If you haven't heard yet it's 2016. ;) Which now that we are almost halfway into January, the mania of resolutions and words of the year and other things we do to psych ourselves up for "the best year EVER!" has simmered down a bit.
We've talked about Maker Resolutions a bit in our newsletter (hey, if you're not a subscriber then you are missing out! Go to the bottom of this page, subscribe and also get a worksheet to help you figure out your business resolutions). Today, I wanted to expand a bit on thinking about "resolutions" or "goals" or just plain mindfulness about areas that I think can frequently trip us up.
