My goal when I started, Maria’s Valentine Rose, back in 2007 was to be able to support myself and my family with no other income. Well, it has been a few long and hard years and I am slowly moving up the totem pole. Along my way I have met hundreds of people who offered their opinion on what I was doing wrong and I took as much as I could from as many of them as I could. The results? I started realizing that not every advice was good advice. I joined the Army Reserves and put my business on hold which may have not been the best idea in the world as far as my crafting business went. I learned that when you put something as great as I had on hold, the damage is great. I finished out basic and then set out a plan to build my business back up and here is what I learned that helped my business. These are a few of the things that I used before that worked and are now working to help my business grow. I hope that you can take a lot away from it and that it will help you. Stop wasting you...