Creating buzz for your business
You run a handmade business.
It's combining your passion with your dreams and you want to do everything you can to turn it profitable.
But now you're going to bed late, struggling to be present during time with your family or friends because business is ALL you can think about.
It's what drives you to keep moving forward, but you're slowly starting to feel like you're losing your mind.
If you're not spending every waking moment working on your business, it won't work, right?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could just add your products to your Etsy shop and the sales just started rolling in?
Customers would leave you nice, positive comments.
You'd be the top shop of the search engine for your products.
Easy peasy.
If only it didn't take some major research and smart work to get there.
The market would be even more saturated if it were that simple.
You're probably wondering, how the heck can I sell over $2k?!
Are you a mom and feel like you can never get any work done for your business?
Do you often feel guilty when you spend extra time on your business instead of with your children?
How can you let these precious moments with your children go on the back burner occasionally so you have make your dreams come true?
Balancing the titles between a Mom and a Business Owner can be extremely difficult.
I've got 5 tips that might be able to cure that guilt and allow you to have a healthier balanced scale between your titles.
You're a small business owner, and sometimes as a creative you find it difficult to manage some of the more “business” aspects of your business.
You think you've finally got a system down with some of these tedious tasks, ahem, like taxes, and then you hear about just one more thing you should be doing.
Does the “should-do” list ever end?
How can you honestly remember to keep track of everything?
Well it's time you sat down to really focus on taxes because it's extremely important to keep your business legitimate.
So it's time to dive right in about to talk about taxes, so now is a good time to go grab another cup of coffee.
Ready?
Have you ever been curious about how much other people make from their jobs?
I know I have, and the first place I look at is GlassDoor.com where employees of specific companies share reviews for the businesses they work for.
But more interestingly, they also share their annual income.
This is great data for job seekers and college students picking a major.
Unfortunately, this kind of data for handmade businesses is not readily available for public viewing.
This is one of the few reasons why I do an annual income report for my handmade business every year.
Here's 2014's income report, and here's 2015's.
One, to educate other creatives who are interested in taking their business to a more serious level.
Two, I believe in transparency and that you should follow a mentor or teacher that not only talks the talk, but walks the walk.
Three, because this is a good excuse for me to do a year review and analyze what went wrong or right so I can make plans for the new year.
Are you ready to take a peek behind my business?
Here's a snapshot view of how the year went: