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Be a professional artist/crafter.
It doesn’t matter if you
do it full-time or part-time, but you must treat your art as a business.
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Maintain a good business reputation.
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Accept full individual responsibility for all legal issues pertaining to your business.
This includes business licensing, taxes, liability, etc.
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Install a link on your website to the New Orleans Craft Mafia
website.
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Pay quarterly membership dues, which is currently $30.
If you choose to pay via PayPal, there is a $1.50 addition to cover PayPal's fees.
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Check in on the online forum at least once a week to read any important notices and participate in online discussion, voting and roll calls.
This requires a time commitment of about one hour per week.
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Check emails from the email discussion list at least once a week to read any important notices.
- Pay your share of our annual $200 main Craft Mafia dues, which are due each June.
(This is usually not more than $20 apiece.)
- Have your own business website.
This can be an Etsy shop or your own separately hosted site. MySpace profiles do not count.
- Attend all monthly in-person meetings.
These take approximately 1.5 - 2 hours each month.
- Contribute to the group in some way.
Every member in the New Orleans Craft Mafia has equal input on how the group is run. We vote on issues and make decisions based on the majority opinion. Because we are a small group, it is important that every member takes an equal amount of responsibility in accomplishing our goals. Some of us write good press releases, some of us design great flyers, some of us know how to do HTML -- but most of us can do none of those things on our own.
All together, we make a strong team. If you decide to join the group, it is important that you realize you will be expected to participate in brainstorming, and contribute some sort of skills or provide some type of services for the group.
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Follow any other new guidelines that are voted on by the group.
