Craft Business Help – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

Etsy Advertising: is it worth it?

March 12, 2021 @ 3:24 pm · Filed under: Craft Business Help

Have you ever wondered about Etsy advertising? I’ve been selling on Etsy for 14 years, but I’ve never looked into paying for Etsy ads until now. Read on to hear about my Etsy advertising experiment (and maybe save yourself some money on Etsy ads…) I’m testing out a few new automated marketing options this year, […]

Professional Design vs Hobby Design

February 15, 2019 @ 12:07 pm · Filed under: Craft Business Help, Crochet, Knitting, My Craft Business

If you’ve ever considered upgrading your craft/design hobby into a business, this post may offer an interesting insight, as I’m now both a professional designer in one field (crochet) and a hobby designer in another (knitwear), so I can speak to both sides of this. My Hobby/Pro Designer Experiences I’m really enjoying my journey as […]

Tracking Customer Queries in your Craft Business

March 21, 2017 @ 9:40 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help, My Craft Business

It’s been three years since I started logging my customer support requests, or, more accurately, questions, comments and suggestions that ask for a response from PlanetJune. I’ve recorded almost 2300 interactions, and now I have three full years of data, I can do a comparative analysis and see if the ‘improvements’ I’ve been making to […]

Captioning YouTube Videos

March 1, 2016 @ 9:05 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help, My Craft Business

Yesterday, I spent the entire day transcribing all my crochet video tutorials so I could add closed captioning to my videos. From now on, if you’re hard of hearing or have any problems understanding my accent, you can turn on the subtitles (it’s the ‘CC’ option on all YouTube videos) and read along as I […]

Failure: Part of Success

January 19, 2016 @ 9:50 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help, General

I’ve been thinking about the ‘perfect’ craft world that we usually see online – endless photos of beautiful finished projects – and how they rarely, if ever, show the whole story. I’m as guilty as anyone else: unless I’m planning a tutorial, I almost never take photos until I finish a project, so you never get […]

Managing Customer Support

April 23, 2014 @ 8:52 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help

Customer support is an area that continually grows as your business expands and you acquire more customers who may need your help. I’ve been running PlanetJune for over 7 years now, and I have many thousands of customers – that’s the potential for a lot of people who may need my support! Sometimes the task […]

do you sell PlanetJune?

October 2, 2013 @ 7:50 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help

I’m sure you know by now that you’re very welcome to sell items you crochet from any of my patterns, provided you give me credit as the designer. But did you know that you can also get your online shop added to my PlanetJune Sellers’ List? Every time I receive a request for a completed […]

selling crafts and patterns online

February 25, 2013 @ 9:06 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help

If you’d like to sell your own patterns or handmade goods online, there are many options open to you. It can be intimidating, especially if you’re just starting out, to figure out which venue is the best fit for you. As I’m always getting emails asking for advice about this, I thought I’d put together […]