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If your creative business feels stuck, it’s easy to assume the answer is to do more. More content. More products. More platforms. More marketing. For many creative entrepreneurs, growth challenges get framed as an effort problem. We assume that if we just work harder, stay more consistent, or push ourselves a little further, momentum will eventually follow. But what if the issue isn’t effort at all? What if the real challenge is that we’re trying to solve the wrong problem? O

Social Media for Makers: How Clear Messaging Makes Your Content Actually Work Social media for makers has quietly become one of the most exhausting parts of running a creative business. Somewhere along the way, many creatives started believing that staying visible online was the same thing as building a business. Posting regularly became the goal. Consistency became the strategy. And social media slowly transformed from a communication tool into a constant pressure cycle of c

When you’re turning crafting into a business, there’s a stage nobody really talks about enough. It’s not the beginning. It’s not the breakthrough moment either. It’s what happens after things start working. At first, momentum feels exciting. You’re growing. People are buying. Opportunities are showing up. It feels like proof that you’ve figured it out. But sometimes, fast growth doesn’t mean stable growth. It just means things are moving quickly enough that you don’t notice w

Most creative entrepreneurs don’t realize they’ve entered a specific stage of business until they’re already deep in it. On the surface, things can look like they’re working. You’re making sales, people are engaging with your work, and from the outside it might even look like you’ve “made it.” But internally, it feels completely different. Things feel unstable. Decisions feel reactive. Income doesn’t feel predictable. And instead of feeling like you’re building something sust

Starting a creative business rarely begins with a polished plan. Most of the time, it starts accidentally. You make something because you enjoy it. Someone buys it. Then someone else asks for one too. Before long, you’re juggling orders, posting constantly online, experimenting with different offers, and trying to figure out how to turn momentum into something sustainable. That’s why so many creative entrepreneurs end up stuck in a strange middle phase where things are techni

Welcome to The Creative Business Boss Podcast A podcast for creative entrepreneurs ready for sustainable creative business growth, stronger branding, and marketing for creatives that actually works. Introducing The Creative Business Boss Podcast Welcome to The Creative Business Boss—the podcast for creatives who are done guessing their way through business growth and want their business to feel more sustainable, strategic, and aligned. Hosted by Maude MacDonald, quilt author,

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