If you’re a handmade business owner, you might be thinking about how to level up your packaging.

It’s really cool how we have so many options for how to design our product packaging, but when it comes down to it, it can get really overwhelming, right?

If you’re the kind of person who already loves to design, creating beautifully branded packaging will be one of the most exciting parts about starting your own business.

But if you prefer pouring over numbers and figures than …

Have you always wanted to start a business but just don’t have the money for start-up costs and room for inventory?

Are you super creative and artsy and make beautiful paintings, drawings, graphic design or are just plain great with words?

Are you a stay at home mom or full-time worker who always dreamed of running your own business but just couldn’t find the time?

Do you currently run a clothing business that uses your art but are sick of storing all the shirts, making …

Are you finally thinking about putting together your own website but don’t know where to start?

Or are your Etsy sales declining year after year, and you’re looking for a way out to something better?

I’ve always preached having your own website for a few reasons:

• you get total control over the style of your shop and your customers’ shopping experience
• you position yourself in a different class, away from Etsy “hobby shops” that underprice everyone in the market
• all your marketing efforts build up like equity

Let’s dive a little deeper into building an email list quickly with your target customers!

If you haven’t yet, I would recommend going back and reading Part 1 and Part 2 of Building an Email List.

At the end of Part 2, I concluded that the fastest way to build an email list for product based businesses is by doing monthly giveaways. For every person that signs up to your mailing list, they get a chance to win one of your handmade items.

But is this …