Category: Working for Yourself

A couple of weeks ago I was asking around on twitter about what I should be putting on a wholesale price list, this started a flurry of tweets around wholesale in general, including what kind of prices to offer, what benefits there were, how to approach shops etc. Here’s a concise, but hopefully useful article… Read more »

HelloWilson (better known as Rachel) is a graphic designer and illustrator and has departed leafy Oxford for the bright lights of London, although she grew up in West Yorkshire. Having done a first degree in English Literature she escaped a career in publishing to return to her first love of designing and making things. Rachel’s… Read more »

Two Working For Yourself posts in a row? Aren’t you honoured! This one’s a little texty, sorry! I’ve been thinking about broaching this subject for a while now, it is, unfortunately, something that a lot of us creative types have to deal with on an almost weekly basis. The big P word, Plagiarism. Not only… Read more »

It doesn’t have to all be about massive PR campaigns, launches and creating a spiffing new product… nah, there’re a bunch of super easy, amazingly effective and even fun ways you can up the ante with your business/blog/project RIGHT NOW. Chop chop…  Write a guest post on a subject that you’re passionate about, it’s even better… Read more »

As with all my Working For Yourself posts I try and speak from my own struggles and accomplishments, and I experienced this subject first hand over the past couple of weeks. Firstly, the Christmas rush has sort of started so Finest Imaginary has started occupying even more of my time than usual. Between packaging up… Read more »

Oh boy. Product pricing has always been a tricky one, and is still something that I juggle and struggle with. Over the years I’ve sold a variety of different products, ranging from off-the-shelf wholesale items, to hand made artwork and bespoke jewellery. I’ve recently been reconsidering a few of my product prices, some of them are… Read more »

Since Finest Imaginary started being one of my main sources of income this summer I’ve had chance to look more into my business and investigate the best ways of making it grow. I’ve been more active in sending out email newsletters, creating more products, and tweaking my website to work better. One of the things… Read more »

When I started writing about this topic I didn’t know whether to classify it as ‘Working for Yourself’ or just a general post, because failure is something that needs to be dealt with at some point or another in all aspects of life, right? I ended up putting it here because I’m going mainly talking… Read more »

Well, maybe not the world, but they could definitely help out your business! Time is your most valuable asset when you run your own business or work as a freelancer, and there never seems to be enough of it! Here’s my list of 10 things that you can do that only take around 2 minutes,… Read more »