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This is a nice sappy card! Front: “you me” Inside: “we were made for each other” • CARD : one 5 x 7 folded card • ENVELOPE : brown fiber envelope, size A7 • INK : archival quality pigment inks (water and fade resistant) • PAPER : 80# kraft brown cardstock (recycled) • PACKAGING : [...]

Tax time will now be made easy for any artist, crafter, or anyone that makes handmade goods. When it comes to bookkeeping, we’ve heard the requests of our community, and developed a one product solution to all of the handmade community’s bookkeeping needs that is specifically designed for the handmade artist and is very affordable.

I believe that businesses DO grow organically, but I also believe that you can fertilize your business for a more aggressive growth rate

Now is the time for Etsy sellers to take action, but if you don’t have a clear strategy–all the work of renaming your titles and tags can be meaningless. A well defined relevancy strategy will help you set clear goals and the ability to make sure your title and tags are working together.

‘If only a celebrity wore my item or purchased from me… that would get me so much attention and sales!’

Handmadeology Pro is looking to hire members from the Handmade community as independent contractors for various work this year. Depending on the project, work can be consistent weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc.

This tool was designed to be a replacement for the old poster sketch that was available on Etsy. The Treasury Blueprint allows you to create Etsy Treasuries and save them for a later date.

Anyone can become an expert. It doesn’t take a diploma or for Oprah to say you are {that may help though}. It takes practice, knowledge, skill, & recognition.

So, Lesson #2 is to have realistic expectations of what you will get out of the show. Sure, there is always one exhibitor who does tons of business their first time out – but it will probably not be you, no matter how fabulous your work or how well you plan and execute your display.

I try to give the customer my best honest guess as to when I will get their order out, and then I try to stay on top of that order. More often than not, I cannot accurately estimate how long it will take to get to an order, so I just have to give myself enough time to force that order out when I said it would go. I am still a work in progress when it comes to this.

  As you know the first couple months that follow the holiday rush can be a slow time for Etsy sellers.  In the Momentum Ecourse we are going to cover ways to keep your momentum and build even more.  This is a slightly different approach  to delivering the content to you , as we are having [...]

I made the mistake of waiting until January (tax time) to sum up all of my totals. After ringing up all of my supply receipts, totaling my Etsy and PayPal fees, alongside with my booth fees for craft fairs, etc. the conclusion became clear: my business expenses were near DOUBLE what I grossed in sales. I shouldn’t have been shocked, but I was.

Do you have a business blog? Have you considered it, but thought it would take too much of your time? Once you have a blog built, it is fairly easy to maintain and if you are simply using it to help build your brand, you can post as few as 1-2 times per week, however, you may find that you enjoy it so much that you choose to connect with your readers more often.

I recently witnessed her sell the roof off a lovely community center at a local holiday show. I had a front row seat from my Energy Shop booth and plenty of time to watch the magic of her day unfold.

When we hear the term “sex sells” the image that comes to mind is usually of a sexy woman posed provocatively with a well-placed product. However, women make up a large percentage of the buying public so selling sex to them can also mean dressing up a product with a man.