Write your goals down for the week and keep working. Have a fabulous week!...

Most of us are or were teachers and consider ourselves professionals. We want our customers to view us as professionals just like the big teacher resource companies. Here are a few things to consider to see if you are being professional as a TPT seller. 1) Products *Are you just slapping something together as fast as you can to get it in your store? Quality over quantity is so important. *Are you lining things up or centering items on the pages so your products look polished? Take the time to line text up or clip art up. Make sure your titles and frames are centered. You also don't want text overlapping onto frames or missing parts of borders because you put a white rectangle with text over it. Another thing to be mindful of is your clipart. Try to use clipart in png format so you don't have to worry about the big white box not blending in with your colored background. You are now a publisher, so you want things to look polished. ...

This is a great TED Talk about Your Why. Do you know Your Why? Have an awesome week! ...

I see way too often the complaint of "this product looks exactly like mine". I've had it happen to me. It appears the person took one of my free products, changed it from matching to open-ended, and created a product line with a similar title based off of my resource. Maybe they did, and maybe they didn't. If you sit down with someone else's product and recreate it with some tweaks here and there, this is wrong! You definitely were not inspired. You are actually just copying someone else. ...