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Growing a Business

There is no perfect business out there. 

I’ve been in business for 16 years now, made millions of dollars selling my products and services, and even after all this time, I’ve still got so much work to do. 

In this post, I want to share with you some key parts of my jewelry business, Tiny Hands, that were broken and how I fixed those issues to restore the business and bring it back on track.

This business now makes multiple six figures every year now in sales,

If you guys have noticed, I rarely make any YouTube videos about TikTok, or Instagram Reels, which I know are super trending right now. 

The reason for that is because I don’t use them for any of my businesses. 

And you know what? 

I can still make a combined million dollars in sales across all of my businesses every year. 

If there’s one takeaway I want you to have with this blog post, it’s that social media is not the ONLY thing that can bring your shop

We’ve been on Etsy for almost two years and made SO CLOSE to a million dollars in sales.

In this post, I’ll share with you a month-to-month breakdown of how much money we made every month, what happened during key months, why it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine, and read to the end of the post where I share more on how we became successful so quickly. We started selling on Etsy in July of 2020.

So for the first month, we made $2310.50.

  • Month two, we

If you’re experiencing slow sales right now in your handmade business and it’s summertime as you’re reading this blog post, here’s what’s going on, why sales are slower, and what to do about it. If you’re new to business, one thing you should know is it’s a roller coaster

There’s no stable paycheck that you can expect from month to month. Some days you’ll make a lot of money; other days, it’ll be crickets.

I want you to know that this roller coaster is totally normal

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