Social Media | Create & Thrive

Making Brand Reps Work for Your Business

Browse Instagram and you will see handmade brands posting gorgeous photographs of their products in action. Small children going about their daily activities dressed in adorable hand sewn outfits, dreamy nurseries full of one of a kind décor and toys....

Five Ways to Build your Creative Business on Instagram

by Miranda and Angela | Social Media

Instagram is a must for creative businesses. The ability to connect with followers using images and videos works so well for those in the creative industries – so if you’re not part of Instagram you’re not only missing out on potential...

Why I Turned Off My Notifications

by Kath Chown | Social Media, Time Management

I have been running a business in some form for around 5 years now. Over that time, social media has become increasingly more important to the success of online and bricks & mortar stores to get their brand ‘out there’ and to entice customers...

10 Tips to Help Established Handmade Sellers Save Time and Improve Business

by Jess | Health, Marketing, Money, Motivation, Organisation, Self-Care, Social Media, Time Management

I know I talk a lot about how to get your nascent handmade business off the ground. That’s a vital part of the business journey – and it might even be the hardest part – but it really is just the beginning of the...

The 15 Must-Read Posts of 2014

by Jess | Etsy, Marketing, Motivation, Organisation, Photography, Self-Care, Social Media, Time Management

Hey Thriver, The end of 2014 is almost upon us, and hopefully you’ve carved out a bit of down-time over the Christmas/New Year period. If so, you might be in need of a bit of holiday reading to get you geared up for 2015… so I’ve...

4 Steps to Easily Gain More Pinterest Followers

by Jess | Social Media

I use a range of social media to market Epheriell and Create & Thrive, but by far, the most social media traffic to both sites comes from Pinterest. (Alas, of course, it’s hard to tell how much traffic comes from Instagram,...