If you’re looking to grow your creative business in a way that isn’t totally saturated and not very many people are doing yet, it’s with video marketing.

Videos are so powerful, but surprisingly, I’m not going to tell you to start a YouTube channel and do YouTube marketing.

In this post, I’m going to share with you why your handmade business needs to do video along with 8 tips to do them well and have them impact your business in a big way with little effort.

It’s that time of the year again. Tax season is coming up! If you’re fairly new in business, this might all be totally new to you.

In this post, I want to share with you 8 small business tax write offs. These are things you can deduct from your taxes. The goal is to deduct as much as possible so you can get the most of your tax return earnings.

Hey, my name is Mei and I help makers, artists and designers create a consistent income selling their handmade products online.

Before I share with you my list of tax deductibles, I need to say that I’m not a tax expert or accountant. I have, however, been doing my own taxes since I came here to the United States 10 years ago, so I’m very familiar with this kind of stuff.

I also have a math degree, so you can trust that you’re in good hands.

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 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.

If your handmade business has plateaued and you’re not sure what to do, read this post because I’m going to share with you what youcan work on so you can bust through the slow times and get back into making more sales than ever.

Hi! My name is Mei and I help makers, artists and designers create a consistent income selling their handmade products online. 

Before we get into the meat and potatoes of this post, I just want you to know, it’s totally normal to have your business stop growing.

Every business goes through a phase like this, sometimes even multiple times in the life of that business. The fact that you’re reading this, is already making you 10 steps ahead.

You’re going to get out of this rut soon if you follow my advice.

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.