Craft Business

My Website Speed Rating Has Improved SHORELINE ACCESSORIES 'Simple Luxuries Delicately Made' Yes, to my astonishment, my website speed rating jumped from a horrible 26 to 11, to 14. Then to 26, having paid an annual premium of about $10 or the equivalent in euro for a booster app called 'Loadify'. Finally, after much scouting, trawling, learning and implementing it suddenly jumped to 34 one day recently. It has dropped again to 33 but I am still glad, surprised and honestly a little bit bemused by it. Anyone who has been following along will be aware that I have dedicated...

I  Feel Like a Hustling Creative Entrepreneur What are the inner workings of a handmade creative business? The answer lies in the challenges, delays, sparks of inspiration, lots of work and lots of mistakes and the victories. What it's really is like is hard to put in a nutshell. To me, It's Not Pink & Sugary. To me, it's not like the pink, sugary, operation-theatre-like TikToc videos you often see. Though I actually think a portion of them are for real. Some of them even earn  gazillions of dollars/Euro/Yen/Pounds.This is not my experience. 8 Berets, By Parade My world is...

Hi there! I've Changed the Name to Craft Business I hope you are doing well. Thank you for having the curiosity to look this far. Full advantage of people's curiosity is being taken these days. I am surprised that any of us have any left at all for the things that count. Never has there been a time when there has been so much competition for our attention. It can be totally bewildering. I am in a state of flux at the moment. Leading on from my previous post I have to say that changing things up in relation to...

Embracing the Silence I didn't think that this was an issue for me. I seem to seek out silence these days. I don't expect it to last forever and ever and be all consuming but I realise more and more that I crave stillness. Nonetheless, as you may have gleaned from an earlier business post, I have changed my day to day business approach. Mainly I have taken back my own time from the rigors of keeping up with social media and jumping every hurdle that's put in front of me. I prefer to jump over my own hurdles because...

Troubleshooting My New YouTube Channel Link to my YouTube Channel & all the other relevant links here on my Link Tree I never thought I would say that.  'Troubleshooting My New YouTube Channel' Sometimes it's better not to look at the bigger picture of what you are actually attempting to do for fear you will freak yourself out. Know that feeling? I freak myself out regularly. Is that how you spell 'freak'? hmm. You may have read that I intend creating more content in my blogs here on Parade Handmade this year to help drive more traffic as the Google...