BUSINESS: Resizing Photos for Web Use using Adobe Photoshop
Resize images for use on the web is a simple but exceedingly useful skill to learn as website and magazine editors can often request images of...
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MARKETING: Press Releases 101
In this digital age, it's a pretty sure bet that press coverage won't just fall in your lap but getting press will certainly be easier if you know...
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BUSINESS: Modern Marketing for Traditional Crafts
This article was originally published in the recent Autumn 2011 issue of UK Handmade Magazine. Article by Tatiana Hitchen.
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BUSINESS: Twitter Lists - a great tool for promoting your business
 Wall Art - Kuko the Brave via the Craft Blog UK flickr group
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BUSINESS: The Importance of Good Product Photography
In this digital age, often good product photography can mean the difference between a sale and a missed opportunity, the difference between being...
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BUSINESS: How to put together a marketing plan
Today we are pleased to reproduce with kind permission this fantastic article by marketing guru Katy Cowan; Editor of Creative Boom and owner of PR...
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BUSINESS: Useful Business Resources
UK Handmade is pleased to introduce you to some of our favourite business resource websites. We've brought them together here for your covenience....
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BUSINESS: Importance of Branding
Big brands are engineered so that the mere mention of a name sees our brains fire off signals making us picture the associated products or logo, such...
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BUSINESS: How to promote yourself online
by Katy Cowan of www.creativeboom.co.uk   One of the most beautiful things about the World Wide Web is how it has brought the globe...
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BUSINESS: Sending Cards to Customers - the Yays and the Nays
In last week's business blog post: Quick Guide to Maximising Christmas Sales we said: "This is the perfect time of year to thank your loyal, repeat...
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BUSINESS: How To Improve SEO Through Community Networking
What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)? Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or SEO is the art of understanding how search engines rank results and then...
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BUSINESS: How YouTube Can Help Your Business
Talented ceramicist Steve Booton of Steve Booton Ceramics tells us how to make the most of YouTube to promote your business.
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BUSINESS: Awards
Sharon Bassett of http://broderie.coriandr.com/ gives us the low down on Business Awards.
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BUSINESS: Advice From Mary Portas Part 2
Continuing on from last week's Business post examining Mary's advice, this week we look at the other points Mary raised, namely: product adjacencies...
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BUSINESS: Advice From Mary Portas Part 1
As many of you will already know, Mary Portas responded to UK Handmade and Handmade and Fabulous! in an open letter via her website. In her...
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BUSINESS: How To Communicate Clearly With Your Audience
Writing is such an important skill for anyone running an online business so, UK Handmade caught up with Kieran Sullivan of Pureprose for his tips on...
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