Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

Vickie Howell, author and broadcast personality, successfully crowdfunded her online knitting and crochet series, 'The Knit Show with Vickie Howell'. Her show is the first on-demand knitting show, with 1200 individual and company backers raising $83,000 in 30 days. In the interview, Howell describes how she saw the decline in television craft shows and made her series internet accessible, a catalyst for her amazing extended community of viewers in 19 countries. Howell talks about the importance of creativity and how it creates connections between people. She has a granular approach to promoting her project and is dissecting each episode for external pieces while analytics and statistics drive the project forward. Howell plans to make a positive difference to people through craft and in the long term, help others to rise so they can also have a platform to spread their ideas.

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