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Every online business owner will experience happy and exciting milestones as well as stressful ones.
Today I will discuss all these different milestones so you know you’re not alone.
This blog alone is proof that there’s a whole community of handmade business owners out there, going through exactly what you are.
My hope is that instead of worrying (which is a sport for us business owners), we give ourselves permission to get excited about our progress with our business.
At the end of the day, all of …
Pricing our products is hard.
It’s one of the biggest challenges for many handmade business owners.
I get it, it’s difficult to know how much people will pay for what we make – and a lot of us are hesitant to charge too much for our product as a result.
But did you know that there are actually strategies that can help us determine the best pricing that can even help us sell more?
And they’re all based on human psychology!
In other words, SCIENCE.
From knowing …
If you’re a new business owner, you’ve probably gotten Shiny Object Syndrome – or SOS – whether or not you even realize it.
Everyone goes through it and it can give you analysis paralysis and stunt the growth of your business.
We want to avoid it as much as we can.
I’m going to dig into what SOS really is, and how you can avoid it as a small business owner.
…Remember back in 2020 when we thought ‘oh, this pandemic thing will only last a few months’ or ‘everything will be back to normal in 2021’?
Ha! If anything’s for sure about 2021 it’s that the world has changed for good.
And as small businesses, we need to adapt to stay relevant or our livelihoods will suffer.
But don’t freak out!
Today, I’m going to share with you the top 5 product trends I’m seeing already in 2021!
AND I’m going to give you some practical suggestions …
Don’t chase success the hard way. Follow the same simple step-by-step system that I used to build multiple 6- and 7-figure online handmade businesses. Even if you hate selling, don’t have a large following, and aren’t techy.
How to get influencers, bloggers and celebrities to make your product go viral
How to create demand for your brand and products and turn customers into raving fans
How to automate your store, reach more customers and make sales while you sleep
TAKE ME THERE
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