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Craft Inc. Business Planner

The Ultimate Organizer for Turning Your Crafts Into Cash

9780811869959

Chronicle Books
Available: 08/24/09
6.88 x 8 · 140 pages
9780811869959
CDN $23.95 · pf

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Meg Mateo Ilasco

This action-oriented take-along planner is packed with advice and worksheets that guide creative entrepreneurs in their hot pursuit of profit. From big picture goals (writing a mission statement, developing marketing campaigns, launching a new line) to immediate to-dos (getting a business license, pricing products, packing for trade shows), this essential guide brims with how-to tips from industry experts. Roomy pockets catch important business cards, whiletear-off notepad pages offer space to jot thoughts on the go. The lay-flat portfolio packaging makes this planner both easy to tote and durable enough to withstand all that the bumpy road to success may bring.

Meg Mateo Ilasco is a designer, writer, and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was in grad school when she started designing wedding invitations for extra money. Eventually her company became a full-time job, expanded into stationery and accessories, and was featured on NBC's Today and in The Knot. Meg has since sold that business and has launched an eponymous housewares and gift company, Mateo Ilasco. She recently debuted a home office line called Utile that has sold well at See Jane Work, SFMOMA, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Fred Flare, Curiosity Shoppe, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.mateoilasco.com.