Would you like to know what is better than social media to grow your creative business? Of course, you do!

An email list is what will get you better reach, visibility, sales, and conversions to your handmade shop.

If having an email list is new to you, or you’re not sure why you should be spending more of your time building one, stay on to read this post.

I’ve been running my handmade business for over a decade and I’ve helped A LOT of other people build their own businesses. I’ve seen that there are 4 distinct stages of a handmade business. 4 different income or sales levels that are quite different from each other.

In this post, I’m going to break those down and explain to you what you need to do at each of these different levels.

This post was really hard for me to do because there’s very little in my business that I would change or that I regret doing.

Nevertheless, I was able to come up with 5 things that I would do differently if I were to start my business all over again from scratch, after knowing what I know from making over a $1,000,000 in sales and spending 14 years running my own handmade jewelry business.

Are you thinking about starting your own handmade business?

In this post, I’m going to talk about the pros and cons of starting a handmade business so you’re prepared for both the really fun and exciting stuff that can happen, but also the ugly side of things. Keep reading!