The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Do...
Text me about this episode!5% of employees in the US are millionaires.. and 88% of millionaires are business owners. Success leaves clues, wouldn't you say?This summer, my primary business, Music City Sewing, will turn eight. Eight years of running a small service-based sewing business that on the surface looks super shiny & glittery, peppered with Getty images and exciting opportunities, but when it comes down to it, it’s a blue collar business. It’s alterations, it’s softgoods and merch… it’s just your typical business on Main Street.But it's changed my life, in a way that I could only pray more people get to experience if they have an idea that's bursting at the seams. Interested in reading up about the Six-Figure Sewing Pattern? Head to sixfiguresewing.com.Interested in learning from Krystal? Hop on the mailing list on krystaldouglas.com.
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5 Ways Sewing Businesses Waste Money
Text me about this episode!Money is the scoreboard for the impact you get to have in the world as a business owner. You know what a red flag looks like in dating, but can you spot the ones that go up in MOST small sewing businesses? I'm bringing you five red flags, five ways sewing businesses waste money.I'm speaking to myself this week, as someone who's made every mistake in the book! Tune in!Get 50% off your first year using my favorite email marketing platform, flodesk by heading to krystaldouglas.com/flodesk.Interested in learning from Krystal? Hop on the mailing list on krystaldouglas.com.
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How Consistently Running Sales Can Bankrupt A Brand (And What You Can Do To Fix It)
Text me about this episode!Broke and anxious??Running a sale is always the way to go to solve your problems, right? Eeeesh.. How exactly do you plan to make more money at your craft by charging less? I don't believe in regularly running sales on products or services you don't plan to sunset - for these eight reasons. And because it's not enough to tell you why running sales all the time is bankrupting your brand, I also give you five ways to incentivize sales instead of simply slashing prices. Let's go!Artful Agenda promo code: RK405225Interested in learning from Krystal? Hop on the mailing list on krystaldouglas.com.
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How Fashion Designers Can Tackle America's Health Problem
Text me about this episode!Have you ever wondered exactly what's in the clothes you make to sell, or how you could potentially clean up the amount of synthetic dyes and chemicals your customers may be buying? Just because a product is handmade, doesn't mean it's skipped out on containing chemicals that are scientifically-proven to affect our bodies as makers, and inevitably, your end customers. Today's guest is Jeff Garner, a fashion designer of the clothing line Prophetik, and Emmy-winning documentary producer. His newest documentary, Let Them Be Naked debuts May 11th, 2025 and goes in-depth into the research, the education, and the impact our fashion design has on our bodies and our environment. If there has ever been an episode that left me immediately making lists of ways to make healthy changes in terms of removing toxins from MY WORK, it's this one!Interested in learning from Krystal? Hop on the mailing list on krystaldouglas.com.
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3 Ways We're Using AI In Our Sewing Business RIGHT NOW
Text me about this episode!We’ve seen bad AI... in all formats, like blog & image creation, voice cloning, etc. But in order to use AI well, and benefit from its capabilities, you have to FIRST understand how it works, and how to clearly articulate what you want, and SECOND, you have to actual put in effort to creating the right prompt. As a business owner, you get out of it what you put in, so with just a little time in learning how it works, and finding the right types of AI to help you play to your strengths, you can gain even more momentum on your year than you originally thought possible.Let's run through three different ways we're using AI in our sewing business RIGHT NOW, and how we're leveraging it to push past the competition and increase our bottom line.Psssst! Wanna steal my homework? Grab my FREE AI Chat Prompts for Handmade Businesses by visiting krystaldouglas.com/ai.Affiliate link: Save 50% on your first year using Flodesk for your email marketing by clicking here!Interested in learning from Krystal? Hop on the mailing list on krystaldouglas.com.
The podcast teaches you everything you need to know to be profitable at craft-based work, and dive deep on sewing as a career choice. Join your host, Krystal Douglas - a celebrity tailor, creative entrepreneur and wild mustang tamer. Krystal took a Brother home sewing machine and a $30 craigslist desk and built a sewing business that supports a life she loves… while generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue each year. It definitely didn’t come easy, but this podcast is meant to help others shorten their learning curve. She shares what she's learned about entrepreneurship and business building as it applies to fashion & craft-based work, and opens up about what she wishes she knew when she first started. Go behind the scenes on every tool, trick, and business process Krystal has learned from costuming celebrities, manufacturing clothing, and selling products... so that you can stop questioning your skills, and start profiting from your work.
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