Monthly Costs Calculator for Artists and Makers. By Dawn Birch-James

DescriptionThis handy calculator on an Excel document is not just an essential calculator. It will be a black and white tool to help you understand about costing your art and craft selling. It will calculate for you your monthly outgoing taking into consideration those annual costs which creep up. It will also help you understand what money you need to take per month to cover your costs and hopefully make a little profit to pump back into the art creating or even to give yourself a wage!!!It is so simple to use and yet has such a far reaching ability to get you to understand what it takes to pay fro your overheads. It will also show you want you want to pay for and what you don’t want to pay for from your art and craft selling. It could also help you plan for the future. What do you want to be able to pay for. It is a great compliment to the tutorial ‘How to make a Profit’, which you can book on EventbriteIt will bring into sharp focus at what level you want to sell. It is a truly amazing little tool which I have devised and which will save you loads of time.You will be emailed the Monthly Costs Calculator which has nifty formulae all done for you. You will get also a short set of directions for use, so you get it straight away and can adapt it to your own needs.I am very excited about this calculator. I am confident that it will revolutionise the way you view selling your work. I know most artists and makers need something simple and quick and so here it is. At first your brain will bend and you might get upset at what it reveals but then you will wonder how you managed without it…that is if you are even half serious about selling and you value your sanity.Dawn Birch-James is an Art Business Consultant.She offers regular very economical online tutorials on essential topics to help artists/makers and crafters sell their work. Her tutorials are in response to the main questions, issues and difficulties she has been asked about repeatedly over the last 20 years. You can find out more and book here.She has a YouTube channel and is known as the Arty Biz Teacher. You can subscribe to her channel and get access to regular videos which give free advice on marketing and selling art and craft. Find out more here.   This handy calculator on an Excel document is not just an essential calculator. It will be a black and white tool to help you understand about costing, pricing and profits. It is so simple to do and yet has such a far reaching ability to make you understand what you need to do to sell successfully. It si a great compliment to the tutorial ‘How to make a Profit’, which you can book on EventbriteIt will bring into sharp focus, who you are as an artist, how much your work is worth, and how you are going to keep sane with the amount of work you do, and the profits you might make. It is a truly amazing little tool which I have devised.You will be emailed the Calculator which has nifty formulae all done for you. You will get also a short set of directions for use, so you get it straight away and can adapt it to your own needs.I am very excited about this little calculator. I am confident that it will revolutionise the way you view selling your work. I know most artists and makers need something simple and quick and so here it is. At first your brain will bend and you might get upset at what it reveals but then you will wonder how you managed without it…that is if you are even half serious about selling and you value your sanity.You can also book one to one mentoring. Why not book an Introductory Hour with her. It will explain all the basics and will inspire you to get started or motivate you to persist and develop. You can decide then whether you would like to continue with regular mentoring. Find out more hereFollow her on Facebook Dawn Birch-James Art Business Consultant