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Top 10 Handmade Business Ideas

2020/01/23

The list I’m giving you today are business markets that have stood the test of time and continue to make millions of sales and profit. If you’re looking for ideas to start your handmade business, without further ado, here are our top 10 handmade business ideas. 1. On Demand T-Shirts You’ve probably heard of this by now or you’ve seen ads everywhere for this. You create the design for your T-shirts and a printing company will do all the fulfillment, which means printing your design on t-shirt

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4 Things I’ll Never Do Again in My Handmade Business

2020/01/20

These aren’t things I regret doing, because I don’t! If I had never done them, I would never have known they aren’t things I want to do again in my business. Having said that, here are the 4 things I’ll never do again in my handmade business. I’ve been in business myself, selling my own handmade jewelry at tinyhandsonline.com for more than a decade. So I can guarantee you that I’ve tried almost everything that a business owner can do for their physical product

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How To Pitch Your Handmade Products to the Media

2020/01/16

Getting your products featured in the media like magazines, bloggers, on influencers and so on can give your shop a ton of exposure which in turn a huge boost in sales. I recently got my jewelry on a YouTuber’s channel who has 500,000 subscribers. I sent her a few products and I paid for shipping and to make the jewelry, but I didn’t have to pay any other fees. I made more than $2,000 from that feature. In this post, I’m going to show you how to pitch your products. I am a very

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Double or Triple Your Sales to Make a Full Time...

2020/01/14

If you want to take your handmade business to the next level and make a full time income in 2020, then keep reading this post because I’m going to share with you 5 different ways, with a lot of examples for how to double or triple your income from selling your products online. 1. Diversify Your Income When you’re first starting out, most likely you have one source of income for your business. As the years pass and you start to grow your business, you should introduce different streams

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Most Successful Product Launch Ever

2020/01/09

In this post, I want to share with you my most successful product launch ever. When I released this product for sale, I was able to bring in an additional $30,000 to my sales that year and it only kept growing from there. This year I made about $84,000 selling this product. If you’re curious to learn more, keep reading. My experience teaching you comes from running my own handmade jewelry business for the last fourteen plus years. My shop is called Tiny Hands Online, and I sell hand-sculpted

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How to Get Repeat Buyers for Your Products

2020/01/06

You can make more profit in your handmade business if you can get a customer to buy from you again and again. If you’re having trouble getting them to come back and turn into repeat customers, read this post. I’m going to share with you 5 easy ways to get more repeat buyers so you can make more sales and more money without it being a lot of extra work for you. The Cost of Making a Sale One thing I want you to understand is there’s a cost to make a sale in your … The post How

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My $2000 Mistake on Shopify

2020/01/02

I almost didn’t want to create this post, but I’m going to. I think it’s an important lesson that you need to hear. I’m going to share with you something I’ve never shared before with anyone else, and that is my $2,000 mistake on Shopify. Ugh. Okay, here goes. I Was Just Getting Started… This was back in 2015 so it wasn’t that long ago. My business was still pretty young in the sense that I did any and all web development work myself. These days, if I want

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Marketing Your Products DIFFERENTLY – How to Stand Out

2019/12/30

One of the biggest mistakes I see is people making too many different products with lots of different styles. If you’re hardly making any sales with your handmade products and you’re struggling to stand out because there’s so much competition, keep reading this post. I’m going to have some answers for you. This post is going to have two parts. In the first part, I’ll talk about some strategies you can help you stand out if you’re still new and in that product

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How to Create Pictures That Do Your Products Justice

2019/12/26

Product photos are so important for your shop. In fact, if you have excellent product photos you don’t even need to have your actual product in stock to make a sale. It is the only and best representation of what you’re selling and the best way to communicate your product to your potential customers. This isn’t like a brick-and-mortar shop where the customer can touch and feel your products. Your photos have to do all that work for you. If your photos aren’t good,

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Get Off Etsy – Here’s Why!

2019/12/23

Etsy is a great place for crafters to get started selling their products online. Everyone has heard about it, so it’s an obvious choice, and it’s known for being handmade. Or so we think… But it’s easy to get set up and Etsy gives you a lot of tools for getting your products in front of potential customers. Etsy is a marketplace. It’s like Ebay or Amazon. There are thousands of different shops on the platform and it’s powered by a search engine. So what that

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How to Manage Your Facebook without Wasting Time

2019/12/19

If you’re on Facebook to promote your handmade business, you could be wasting a lot of time doing the wrong things. In today’s post, I’m going to share with you 5 tips for how to use Facebook without wasting time. Before we dive into the 5 tips, the biggest takeaway I want you to have when it comes to social media whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, blogging, or anything you do online these days – remember, and be aware, that there are thousands of other people

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The 5 Best Websites to Sell Your Crafts Online

2019/12/16

If you’re looking for places to sell your handmade crafts and products online, you NEED to read this post because it’s going to save you SO much time from making the wrong choice and get you selling on the best platform right now, so that you’re set up for long term success and lots of sales. We’re just going to jump right into it. I’m going to order these from worst to best. 5. eBay So we’re going to start with the worst, eBay! I have heard of a few people who

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Priced to Sell: Selling Your Handmade Crafts

2019/12/12

If you want to sell your handmade products and make as much profit as you can, keep reading because in this post, I’ll be breaking down some cool pricing strategies that can help you sell more of your work online. The Pricing Formula The first thing I want to break down is the pricing formula. This formula is both art and science. You’ll find that there are some strategies for pricing for profit within both parts. If you’re not familiar with the formula, what I recommend to people

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Mistakes Craft Businesses Make that Waste Time

2019/12/09

You could be wasting hundreds of hours on your handmade business without even knowing it. In this post, I’m going to share with you some of the most common time wasters I see creatives make, so you can do less of that and do more of what will help you move your business forward instead. These are in no particular order, so I’m just going to jump straight into it. Posting on Social Media Without a Plan for Outreach This is a mistake I see a lot of us make. You create content and post

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Make More Money in your Craft Business Using THIS...

2019/11/05

There is ONE strategy you can use today to grow your following, get traffic and actually make sales through your Facebook page. Want to know more? Keep reading. In this post, I’m going to share with you my Giveaway Funnel strategy that can make you sales with a very low budget. A few things you’ll need to make this funnel strategy work is: A Facebook Business Page Some followers, although you don’t need to have a lot. Literally, just a hundred people is fine to start with for

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How to Set Up a Facebook Business Page For Your...

2019/10/31

If you’re a handmade business owner and you don’t have a Facebook page yet, get one set up right now because you’re missing out. Facebook is the best social media platform out there. In this video, I’m going to share with you how to set up your own Facebook business page in less than 10 minutes. Hi, my name is Mei Pak and I help makers, artists and designers make a consistent income by selling their handmade products online. I’m going to show you step by step how to

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The Best Social Media Platforms for SALES In Your...

2019/10/29

You may be surprised to hear that the social media platform that is great at getting you lots of traffic to your handmade business, is terrible at bringing you sales. Keep reading to find out which social media platform is best for bringing you sales. There are so many social media platforms these days. How do you know which one to pick and focus your time on? It may not be what you think, so let’s break this down. Facebook First, we have Facebook. Everyone knows Facebook. It’s the

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How to Outsource Your Handmade Business (And Why You...

2019/10/24

If you’re serious about your handmade business and you want to grow to the next level and make more money while working less, this is the post for you. In this post, I’m going to share with you why you should hire help in your business and the exact steps to do that. I know you may think, “I’m barely even paying myself from my business, I’m not in a position to hire help.” That’s not true. With the right kind of help, that’s exactly what you need to

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Organize Your Handmade Business with THIS TOOL!

2019/10/22

Does your handmade business feel like a total mess? You can’t find things, you’re not productive and you know you could be more organized? In this post, I’m going to share with you my favorite tool that runs my business. It’s powerful and even better, it’s totally FREE! This tool that I love using so much, and I’ve been using for years for my businesses is Google Drive. It’s totally free to use, all you need is a free Gmail account and you can access all

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How to Get More Done in Less Time (so you can get...

2019/10/17

Are you struggling to get things done in your business? You only have so many hours in a week, right? In this post, I’m going to show you how to get more done in less time so you can get back to doing what you love – making your art and products. Work in Batches My very first tip for you is to do your work in bulk, or in batches. Like an assembly-line. You’re taking advantage of what’s called “economies of scale”. What this means is that it takes longer to do one

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