Frequently asked questions

What is CraftEntrepreneur.com?

Well, you might ask what CraftEntrepreneur.com isn't, but that would be a silly question and we'd be here forever answering it.

This site is designed to allow Craft Entrepreneurs to share their experience with others. To try and encourage participation, we've kept things simple - all we ask of you is three pearls of wisdom.

Your greatest moment of genius that had positive results for your craft business

Your most stoopid (stupid) moment while running your craft business.

And finally your piece of 'do this' advice that you would offer to all other aspiring craft entrepreneurs.

What is a Craft Entrepreneur?

Oooh, good one! Well Merriam Webster define an entrepreneur as 'one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise'.

For our purposes, we consider a Craft Entrepreneur to be someone who indulges in an art or craft that they love and also try to profit from their passion. For example, that could mean running a bricks and mortar craft based shop, offering their work for sale on Etsy or, perhaps, offering courses for other to learn new skills.

Can anyone share their wisdom?

Anyone who is a Craft Entrepreneur qualifies as being in a position to share their wisdom on this site. If you undertake a craft and attempt to profit from it, then please take a few moments to share your experience with others - even if it hasn't been the roaring success that you hoped for.

What's the point of all this?

You spend a lot of time in the kitchen at parties, don't you?

Hopefully the site will both be informative and entertaining. You only have to look at Etsy and the proliferation of craft blogs to understand that there is a wealth of experience and knowledge out there in the Craft Entrepreneur community. Here we invite them and you to share some of that knowledge in three bite sized chunks of wisdom.

I've submitted my wisdom, but it's not showing on the site. Why?

Well Grasshopper, it's like this. Each submission is individually checked before being added to CraftEntrepreneur.com. We try to do this as quickly as possible and do ask that you are patient. If you entered an email address with your submission, we'll let you know when your submission has been added to the site.

Please note that we are based in the Central European Timezone, so we may be asleep when you submit your wisdom.

Do I have to supply any personal details to share wisdom?

No - we want to keep things nice and simple for people to participate. However we do encourage you to add this information so that other users can find out more about you and your craft business.

We won't publish your email address, but all the other information that you submit will be added to our site. This includes your name, business name, a description of your craft business and your website. Why not add this information and give other users the opportunity to visit your website and find out more about you?

Can I submit wisdom more than once?

No, but yes! To avoid the possibility of anyone making multiple submissions in an attempt to get more back links to their site, we don't accept more than one submission with the same website.

However, we also understand that some Craft Entrepreneurs have more than one finger in more than one pie. If you run more than one craft business, we appreciate that you may have different experiences to share, so in such cases we do invite you to make more than one submission, but each submission must link to a different website, relevant to your different craft businesses.

Obviously, in the case of online market places, such as Etsy, we treat individual stores as unique websites.