Disclaimer: This blog post includes quotes from my interview with Anuja Mehra, with some sections edited for grammar. Check out my YouTube video to watch the full interview.

“I think I have had more sales in the past three months than I did in a whole year before. If I were to extrapolate, I’d say I’ve already crossed the ceiling or plateau I was hitting before.” – Anuja Mehra, Tinted Heritage

Feel like you’ve tried everything to grow your shop, but it’s still not going anywhere? 

Or …

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

In the early months or even years of running a new business, it can be difficult to tell how well you’re really doing. 

Even when you feel like you’re getting the hang of things.

You’ve got a solid website, you’re making some sales here and there – but it might seem like there’s no concrete way to know for sure if your handmade business is where it’s supposed to be. 

We’re all learning here!

That means that we might not know exactly what to look out for …

Starting your own handmade business is a real learning experience. 

I’ve had to make a lot of tweaks and adjustments along the journey to where I am now. 

It’s easy to look back and think about what you might have done differently but I’m also a believer that everything happens for a reason.

So today, I’ll be sharing three things that I don’t regret doing for my handmade business because it got me where I am today!