Crafting business goes Big Time with a little help from investors

Let me set a scenario for you here. Say you're a seamstress and you create adorable clothing for children which you sell on eBay. (I know of many people that make a living doing this) You have your own signature to your line of clothing, and it's caught on big time. You started a web page now where you're taking orders for outfits and now you're so busy that you're having problems keeping up with orders. So you have to hire on some help to get these orders out. You have so many ideas for your new fall line, but you're still so busy that you just don't have the necessary time to get working on this line, and the weeks are flying by so quickly. You think to yourself that perhaps it's time to re-think your at one time little company. It's time to go brick and mortar because you just don't have the room in your home anymore for supplies, and your hired help. You have dreams of having your own catalog, or perhaps you would love to see some of the chain stores carrying your line, but you just don't have the dollars needed to fund such a venture.

Fortunately for entrepreneurs such as yourself there is a fairly new company called Venpar (Venture Alliance Partners). Venpar isdedicated to helping entrepreneurs build world-class companies, and their funding for such companies comes through their private placement shareholders. Those dreams can be a reality for you with a company like Venpar. Just think... you could be the next haute label in Children's Couture!

Olivia

Importing craft supplies

Have you ever thought of opening your own craft shop? Wouldn't that be really cool? You could work on your own projects on those slower days, and you'd have all the materials you wanted on hand? Imagine having your own bead shop and stocking all kinds of really cool beads from all over the world. But where do you start to find those beads to import? Now it's simple really. There is a website called masterseek where you can search for businesses all over the globe. At their site you can search from over 45 million companies in 75 different countries. That should certainly give enough of a variety of bead suppliers all over the world to stock a new shop! But they're not limited to just bead suppliers either. If you wanted to open a yarn shop or a fabric shop, you can search for those suppliers there as well. With that many different companies in their database, there is something there for everyone... even if your hubby wanted to open a kayak shop!

For those of you that have gone commerce and sell your own crafts, you could also list your company there as well, to start exporting to other lands. Imagine your items being displayed in a quaint little shop in London or Paris? Great food for thought for broadening your crafting business horizons.

Olivia

Making money blogging

On my other blog, I do some sponsored posts, where I get paid to post about. This can be a review of a web site or product, an opinion, some buzz to help spread the word about a new site or something along those lines. There are several different companies that pay bloggers for such posts, and I've recently come across a newer one that seems to be pretty good. Bloggerwave was founded in 2006, and went live with paid blogging in March 2007. They are based out of Europe with offices in Denmark, Germany and the UK. I find it kind of neat to be blogging for a company across the Atlantic from me. The Internet surely does make our huge world seem a much smaller and cozy.

Olivia