We’re living in a crazy time right now. The COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown has changed lives. It’s changed the way we’re doing business and there’s no sign things are going ‘back to normal’ any time soon.

So, let’s talk about strategies for getting your small business through this!

In this post, I want to share with you how to keep up on social media like Instagram and Facebook if your shop is closed or just not operating at full force right now. 

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

I’ve been running my own handmade business, Tiny Hands, for over a decade and I’ve taken everything I know from my own success to help fellow business owners with Creative Hive since 2014. I’m working in the trenches with you guys with my own shops online.

I’m the owner of a small business just like you, stressing over sales in this topsy-turvy situation. And I want to share everything I know with you, so we can all get through this and still be successful, together!

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Want to turn your handmade hobby into a highly profitable business?

In this post, I’m going to share five steps for starting your online jewelry business and I’ll give you a free and powerful advertising strategy that I still use to this day to promote your products when you’re just starting out!

My name is Mei and I help makers, artists and designers create a consistent income selling their handmade products online. I’ve been selling my own handmade jewelry at tinyhandsonline.com for over 14 years and it is such a dream that I’ve been able to turn my hobby into my career.

It has gotten a little crowded in the jewelry market since I first started, but in the US alone, the jewelry industry continues to generate about $70 billion a year in sales. So if you follow the tips I’m going to share with you in this post, you can still carve out a pretty good slice of that pie for yourself.

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Amazon FBA is an untapped goldmine for us handmade sellers and today I'm going to show you how to get started with just 5 simple steps. 

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

If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you’ll know that I started selling my own handmade jewelry on my website at tinyhandsonline.com. I was also selling my products over on regular Amazon (not handmade) and I was actually doing pretty well, considering I didn’t do anything more than publish my product listings. But a friend of mine who was running a very successful makeup business told me that I had to get on Amazon FBA. I took her advice almost instantly, saw an immediate increase in sales to the point where my team and I were getting maxed out and almost couldn’t keep up between Amazon and my own site orders! 

For those of you who don’t know, FBA is Amazon’s fulfillment service and stands for “Fulfillment by Amazon”. The way it works is you pay Amazon a bit of an extra fee, and in exchange, they take care of your storage, packaging, shipping, returns, and customer service! 

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Do Amazon ads work and should you be using them to make more money from your handmade business?

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

Today, I’m going to explain how Amazon Advertising works, and how you can start using it to make more money from your handmade business.

First, you may be wondering what Amazon Advertising is and whether you even need it to be successful.

So let’s get into that first.

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Are you struggling to wrap your head around the cost of selling your products on Amazon?

In this post, we'll be taking a detailed look at Amazon's fees whether you’re a seller on regular Amazon, Amazon Handmade or Fulfillment by Amazon. We'll be breaking down the fees across each and giving examples so you can have a better idea of the cost you're looking at to sell on Amazon.

Hi, my name is Mei and I help makers, artists and designers make a living from selling their handmade products online.

Compared to Etsy, it’s a little bit more difficult to understand the different types of fees for selling on Amazon. However, once you get the hang of which fees apply and when, there are many advantages to selling on the world's largest online marketplace.

If you’re not sure about the differences between regular Amazon, Amazon Handmade or Fulfillment by Amazon, I have a whole video talking about that. Today, we’re going to focus on the selling fees.