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Craft & Makers

Craft Your Commerce

Craft Your Commerce is a Mountain BizWorks entrepreneurial program designed to connect, elevate and advance creative and craft-centered companies through a series of business training workshops and classes designed by makers for makers. The program is offered in partnership with Center for Craft, UNC Asheville, and area creative entrepreneurs.

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About Craft Your Commerce

Craft Your Commerce is presented on a semiannual basis and designed to serve as an educational hub for entrepreneurs in the craft industry. Through a series of workshops, an integrative cohort-based learning program helps weave together lessons from the workshops and guide entrepreneurs in developing their own goals and actionable plans.

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Seasonal Series

The series involves a networking event, five separate workshops, and one intensive course suited for existing makers. The program offerings are available a-la-carte, but they’re also designed to thematically complement each other.

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Coaching

Craft Industry Coaching

Mountain BizWorks offers highly customized, peer-to-peer business coaching by an extensive network of successful craft industry business owners.

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Makers Mixer

Join a group of your craft industry peers in a lively opportunity to connect and share ideas. Events are scheduled on a quarterly basis and will feature a local craft expert as a special guest.

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Why we need more B-Corps in this region?

Our region is home to people and companies that care about the triple bottom line: not just the financial impact of their life and business, but also the oft-overlooked social and environmental impacts. That’s what being a B Corp is all about: B Corps aspire to use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems.

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Learn about B-Corporations in Appalachia

Craft Your Commerce is a Growth Initiative* of Mountain Bizworks.

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*Growth initiatives are special learning opportunities geared toward specific local industries—facilitated by Mountain Bizworks to initiate growth in our local economy and community. Learn more about us here.