Ebook: Make Money Quilting

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Peggy Diamanti; Quilting as a Business-How the IRS Sees It; Working Where You Live-Confusion of Roles; Separate Business from Personal Tasks; Motivation and Self-Discipline; Set a Work Schedule and Stick to It; Defining and Achieving Your Goals; Entrepreneurial Characteristics You Should Have; Time Management Skills; Get It All Done with Action Boards and Monthly Action Lists; 1 Turning Your Hobby into a Business; Business Plans Defined-Plan For Success; Three Reasons to Make a Business Plan.;This thorough, no-nonsense business guide helps quilters master the tricky transition from hobby to a profitable, state-of-the-art quilting business. Written by a veteran quilt business expert, this book provides budding quiltmakers with a versatile approach to making money off their creative passion. Whether the goal is general quilting or consulting, writing magazine articles, book publishing, or teaching, this guide lays out a clear plan on how to get there-from the legal groundwork of getting started to the finer points of generating publicity and networking in the wholesale industry.