Crafting for Profit Live

Proven Marketing Techniques for Craft Businesses with Chelly Ontis

Crafting for Profit Live

Show Notes

Getting the word out about your small handmade business is top priority when you want to increase sales. This week we are chatting with Chelly Ontis about proven marketing techniques that you can start using today! Use Chelly's advice to evaluate what you are currently doing then use her tips to increase your reach and with it your sales.

Our guest this week is Chelly who is the CEO at We Can Make That® (a blog for business crafters and crafters). Her passion for helping small business owners comes from being one herself since 1997 (with her marketing and graphic design studio).

Chelly loves sharing tips to help creativepreneurs master their marketing with her Content Planner for Creativereneurs™, Creativepreneur Summit™, and more! Be sure to check out her website: https://wecanmakethat.me/

Join Chelly for the Creativepreneur Bootcamp on June 10-11, 2024. This live bootcamp is held over 2 days with sessions to help you evaluate your year and see what to focus on to move forward. Sign up for free with our affiliate link: https://link.craftingcamps.com/bootcamp

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Let us help you craft your future by turning your passion into a paycheck. Angie Holden and Cori George are teaming up for a series of live events dedicated to helping you start and grow your craft business. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of the future episodes! Sign up for our email newsletter here: https://crafting-camps.ck.page/4715c59751

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