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...
Free shipping EVERY time "free shipping" comes up, it's a lively discussion. As consumers, we all love it, of course. As sellers though, we have mixed emotions. I remember one time I told the story...
Today I am SO pumped to tell you that I woke up a few mornings ago and felt a surge of inspiration to FULLY UPDATE my free Shopify training. What is my free Shopify training, you ask? Why did it need to be updated, you ask? Well, first of all, it didn't really NEED to be updated. But Shopify...
Inventory management myths "I want to sell on two platforms but I'm not sure how to manage inventory. I don't want to have one of...
OMG shut up about the photos already. No. I cannot. I'm sorry. You've read a hundred articles that mention "good product photos" as...
If you've ever gotten a nasty feedback or low star rating from a buyer that could have been prevented - or if you live in fear of it happening - then listen up. There is only one thing worse than bad, public feedback and that is bad, public feedback that could have been prevented. Which is like,...
Y'all have probably heard by now that Etsy released a new service for their sellers called Pattern this week. Pattern is one click website builder for Etsy sellers who want to establish a shop on their own domain. Abby Glassenberg + I got together to chat about Pattern and go deeper into...
Last week I did a scope titled "tough love" wherein I went over 3 key signs you might be "playing biz" rather than real biz. But I got to thinking about it some more and realized there are more signs that indicate playing in biz... Play biz is... well, here's a visual for you: Play biz...
Subtitle: Yes it can happen. Subtitle 2: And isn't that what you want? Mad crazy traffic? Yes. Let's say your signature product gets picked up randomly by a media outlet such as Huffington Post or BuzzFeed... without warning (because that's usually what happens.) Now let's say a bunch of other...