There are endless benefits to having a confident understanding of your business finances. Whether you make four figures or six figures, you will certainly want to have clarity on your money in and money out! The more knowledge you have about your business’ finances, the better the decisions you...
If you sell on Etsy, you already know there are so many wild suggestions for how to achieve wild things. One of my favorite totally outrageous suggestions to Etsy sellers is to list new items daily or weekly to ‘skyrocket’ your sales. You Do Not Need to List an Item on Etsy Daily, Weekly or...
Are you struggling with an invisible Etsy shop? Did your Etsy shop seemingly get sucked into a black hole and disappear for all eternity without a trace? Probably not, but that's how it might feel. If so, don't worry! This is more than likely a very solvable problem. If your Etsy shop has...
It could be because I was born and raised on Long Island that I have a particular affinity for all the Billy Joel classics. It's either that or the fact that he's obviously an incredibly talented performer. In any event, I've found him to be a reliable source of inspiration when it comes to being...
Having listings be discoverable in Etsy search results is one opportunity that sellers can optimize for. It is not the only one, and it's not even the most critical factor in a shop's success. While it may not be the be-all, end-all some make it out to be, it's worth doing what you can to make...
It's very easy to get swept away in improving and nurturing our businesses that we often lose track of improving and nurturing ourselves as business owners!! Allowing time to be creative just for fun is excellent. Sometimes having to be creative for revenue is so draining that we don't have...
Rumors, myths, and flat-out falsehoods (that’s a nice way of saying lies) about Etsy come into our inbox daily. We’ve addressed many Etsy rumors and myths before, but recently, we received a question about a new one that I had not seen or heard before. I won’t lie; this one had me shook. “Hey,...
One of the tenants of my religion is that handmade business owners should not lead with discounts. I find opt-in coupons particularly offensive because they devalue your work from the start. When you are trying to build a base of ideal customers, people paying full price is pretty important! I’m...
Recently, we published a story to our Instagram account to answer a prevalent question we get: 'should I use Etsy or Shopify for my handmade business?' Our answer to that elicited such an interesting response. “I had not thought of it this way…” (Something we always like to hear! It means we are...