Ja, Wol & Pattern Shift

Pattern Shift - the Ja, Wol Podcast Welcome to PATTERN SHIFT, the show that supports overwhelmed experienced and starting small business owners in the textile and needlecraft industry.

🎧NEW EPISODE; 🐌 Slow marketing works: real conversations → real business growth. I connected with 9 business owners at a craft fair, had meaningful talks, and built genuine relationships. Sometimes the old ways are still the best ways. www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcast

Be brave!

Count stitches, play around and spend time to find just the right drape.

You’ll enjoy the product of your efforts so much more.
#creativebusiness #needlecrafts #fiberarts #slowfashion

Not just for your audience but for you as well. More swatching is more knowledge.

And if you are that ‘I never swatch’ person, you will be unsure of the (lasting) effects of your efforts.

Marketing is like swatching. You just have to spend time to find the right fit.

🎧 listen here: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

listen here: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

🎧 listen here: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

Your email list is the one thing you own. Start using it like the powerful business tool it is! 🚀

✨ DM me “EMAIL” if you want help setting yours up!
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We’re spending more and more time making content… for less and less return. 😵‍💫

Meanwhile, email?
💌 Direct access to your people
💌 No algorithms deciding your reach
💌 No landlords—just you and your list

This episode is all about making email feel easy. Listen here: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

#94 - Navigate Around the Creeps - Why Your Business Needs an Email Li 👉 Social media is shifting, but email still works! Learn how to simplify your email strategy, build real connections, and make email work for you—stress-free. 🚀

We already had engagement dropping and content isn’t as visible but it’s getting more and more unsettling with the Big Creeps in charge.

New Pattern Shift Podcast episode on why email beats social media, and how to make it work for you.

🎧 Listen: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

👇 Keep reading…

Over the next week I am going to re-start my email list. Asking everyone to re-marry me. Whaaaat? Have I lost it? Nope, I am simplifying my work so I can offer better service and this is part of my big plan. And yes, there might be significant losses. But those who stay are my peeps!! 🐥

If you would have to delete all newsletter subscriptions from your inbox. Which one would you keep and why? I’m collecting newsletter examples people love to read and get. #emaillist #newsletter #smallbusinessmarketing #ethicalmarketing

#smallcreativebusiness #knitting #crochet #handdyedyarn #indiedyer #LYS

Podcast Art showing a circle with a picture of me, the host, seen from the back with an upper back tattoo of two knitting hands, two swallows and a burning heart in the back. To the right the title of the episode and on the top the name of the podcast.

Feeling overwhelmed with the chaos of your creative business? The Business Model Canvas might just be your solution. 🧩 Dive into the episode and learn how to channel your creativity into success! What tools do you swear by? Listen here: www.ja-wol.com/blogs/podcas...

Lovely 🥰

And that’s how we build a solid industry for #slowfashion, #fiberarts and #needlecraft.

I believe that the stronger your brand, the more confident the brand owner, the easier it is to lift others.

This is what a member of out community said:

Do you help other small businesses grow or do you stick to your own plan? We believe that a rising tide lifts all boats and god knows the slow fashion industry has it’s work cut out to balance the fast fashion crap.

A white middle aged blonde woman with bangs and glasses pulls a screaming face, with one eye closed. She’s wearing headphones with a mic in front of her. Oh and a green hand made blouse.

Recording the next episode for the Pattern Shift podcast, talking about the Business Model Canvas, how it can help you and that it is actually a really creative business tool and not a boring corporate thingamabob. (And yes that is a Stanley bottle. I bought it before Elon went crazy)

Happy Day!! Big points for noticing you are well and celebrating it. (Extra points for outstanding glasses!!)

Agreed. I’ll try one hour today just because we had this little conversation. 😃

A blurred out view of a A0 wallplanner stuck on a white door with a black handle. A carved bird hook on the left and a mid century sconce on the right hung on a blush pink wall.

Last opportunity to download the free wall planner from www.ja-wol.com. It’s amazing how having an overview can help you to save soms space for yourself!!

Shutting down my phone 2 hours (more?) before I go to bed… 🙈

So happy to hear it. ❤️ It can be a challenge making the bizz lingo a little easier to digest.

Feel free to leave a voice message on any of the show notes pages or send a dm.

Please ask me anything on the topic and I’ll try to answer it for you in the episode.

In the next episode of PatternShift.fm I go into what it is and how you can use it. (Subscribe to get noise when it’s live)

Fiber Arts - Needle Craft Businesses… Have you ever used a Business Plan Canvas? Do you know how it can help you and your business?

I think you are my people. 😆