Learn How to Become a Successful Ceramic Studio Owner
Become an even more successful owner of your ceramic studio – read and let these inspirational articles pave your way to long term profits.
– Rolf
Keep that fire in your belly burning
As an entrepreneur, you have shown that you have strength, belief in yourself, skills and endurance. What is the most important trait? I will get back to that later in this chapter. Another question – what is the most common characteristic amongst those peers that have most success? I will come back to that as [...]
Promotion, Part Three: A Crucially Important Part of Your Open House: The Follow-up
Promotion, Part Three: A Crucially Important Part of Your Open House: The Follow-up Scenario: It’s Monday morning, the first day of the week after your open house. Yesterday, Sunday, was pure relaxation, re-establishing your balance and giving you some perspective. Now follows the final and closing chapter of your Open House. The Follow-Up True to [...]
Part two. Successful execution of your Open House
Successful execution of your Open House On the morning of the day for the Open House, you, along with your employees and temporary assistants (if any) arrive two hours early – before the actual event opens. You gather everyone around you for a final review of everybody’s special assignments. Check your notebook and go over, [...]
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Ceramic Studio Promotions Part One
Promotion: “The act of furthering the growth and development of the sale and acceptance of merchandise through advertising, publicity or discounting.” Webster’s Dictionary. Your ceramic studio’s best low-cost promotion – an Open House (OH) We live in a society of continuous bombardment with arguments why we should buy, accept or rent, well, something. This comes [...]
Understanding Profit In Your Ceramic Business
CONTROLLING YOUR CERAMIC BUSINESS Part 1, Understanding profit By managing profits in your ceramic business like a pro you secure a prosperous future. We all think we understand what profits are. It’s one of the most used terms in everyday life. However, for a ceramic business owner it helps to dig a little deeper to [...]
Managing the most important asset in your ceramic business – YOU
Your business can only survive, let alone succeed and prosper, with you as the owner and manager. Are you taking care yourself the right way? To answer it honestly, this calls for some self-examination and soul-searching. Let’s look at some of the most important aspects. Here is the wise advice I got from my father-in-law, [...]
This Ceramic Business e-book helps you succeed
It’s not easy to operate any business successfully over a long period of time. Yet, that is what you promise yourself to do when you are managing your ceramic business – and what you promised yourself to do before opening your own ceramic studio. If you are totally convinced you can do this without help, [...]
Ceramic Business Financing – Part 3: Where do I find the Money?
This article builds on Parts 1 and 2 in this miniseries on Financing a Ceramic Business. In a market niche of small ceramic arts businesses, there are no easy answers to where to find money. It’s a very personal question and one with very personal answers. For start-ups Since the amount of money would not [...]
Ceramic Business Financing – Part 2: Money you need for your business
How money is generated Armed with the wisdom about how you should think about financing your studio (see part 1), let’s start to work on how much you need and, later, some ideas where to find it. Your needs will be totally dictated by the stage your business is in. Not yet started? Recently started? Mature? [...]
