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The Benefits of Making a Creation Story

Posted by Marcie in CustomMade Maker Sucess, For Makers on June 13, 2012

Written by Heather Bailey, invaluable member of our Maker Success Team.

Take a gander at our home page, CustomMade.com. Notice the entire section devoted solely to unique creation stories? It’s the part of our homepage that’s constantly changing with new creation stories—and updates to ones in progress—added all the time. You’ll always see something different [...]

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“Thank You Recession” — How Two Artists from Michigan Revitalized their Community

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, The Wide World of Custom Making on June 7, 2012

Written by CustomMade’s Maker Success team member Tammy Kingan.

It could be the plot of a Hollywood movie: A young couple struggling to start their lives together get hit by a massive recession, come up with a new idea, and follow their dreams to New York City… except this tale doesn’t stop there and this [...]

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How to Optimize your CustomMade Portfolio

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on June 4, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, Maker Support team member at CustomMade.com.

Adding work to your portfolio is vitally important to gaining visibility on the site. Our most successful makers have over 50 projects and counting in their portfolios. The more content you have, the higher your chances are of having a potential customer [...]

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Makers Create Paradise City

Posted by Marcie in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on May 29, 2012

This article was written by CustomMade team member Tammy Kingan.  Tammy is part of our Maker Success Team and wants to introduce all makers to the wonderful possibilities available to them on CustomMade.com.

I literally could not have asked for a more perfect weekend to be at the appropriately named Paradise City Arts Festival in [...]

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Making the Most of the Job Board: Crafting the Perfect First Message

Posted by Marcie in For Makers, The Pro Shop on May 14, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey from CustomMade’s Maker Success Team.

You scan the job board, finally honing in on the ideal job. A great opportunity. In fact you just know you can do this job better than anyone. This job is plain perfect for you and you’re eager to learn more. In a [...]

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CustomMade’s Staff Tries Glass Blowing

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, The People Behind CustomMade on May 1, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, part of CustomMade’s Maker Success team.

What a treat: a chance to step out of our offices and into the shoes of some of our makers. As a reward for making our quarterly goal, the employees of CustomMade were given the unique opportunity to take a “maker class,” [...]

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3rd Ward: Making Future Makers in Brooklyn

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, The Pro Shop on April 30, 2012

This article was written by Heather Bailey, part of CustomMade’s Maker Success team.

Makers helping makers. It’s a simple philosophy everyone here at CustomMade can support and get excited about. So when we stumbled upon the Brooklyn-based artist community 3rd Ward, we were thrilled to discover the work they were doing. Plus, when we come [...]

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The Boston Globe on the CustomMade Experience

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 27, 2012

What is the CustomMade experience like from the perspective of the makers, and what are the obstacles facing the continued growth of CustomMade? In an October 23, 2011 Boston Globe article, “Crafting a market for custom wares,” Scott Kirsner interviewed CustomMade CEO and co-founder Mike Salguero as well as current and former CustomMade subscribers as [...]

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Gettin’ Dirty: CustomMade Gets Schooled On Blacksmithing

Posted by Marcie in For Customers, For Makers, The People Behind CustomMade on April 27, 2012

This blog was written by Tammy Kingan, Maker Acquisitions, at CustomMade.com.

“It’ll start to smell funny,” said Carl, our Blacksmithing teacher, as he was describing that “slippery iron” meant your skin was incinerating, literally evaporating, in under a second.  This was our introduction to Blacksmithing as eight CustomMade employees ventured over to Prospect Hill Forge [...]

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What Makes Google Ventures Tick? Fast Company on “Google’s Creative Destruction”

Posted by Pedro in Company News and Info, For Customers, For Makers on April 19, 2012

In November 2011, CustomMade revealed all the financial backers of its first institutional funding round.  One of the lead investors was Google Ventures.  So what makes Google Ventures tick?  In the Fast Company article, “Google’s Creative Destruction”, Farhad Manjoo takes a look at Google Ventures and managing partner Bill Maris and discovers a new venture [...]

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