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Frequently Asked Questions from Handmade Business Owners

Hi! Mei here!

Our Creative Hive VIP Facebook Group has grown tremendously over the last few months. We have an amazing, supportive community and I love seeing people flourish in there!

We get a lot of questions coming in every day and while I would love to answer every one myself, I wouldn't have enough time in the day to do it! As you'll see in my responses below, I give extremely thorough and in-depth feedback.

So here's what I can do instead. I've compiled a list of frequently asked questions below along with my responses to them.

If you're reading this, you've most likely been linked to this post from within the group and your question has been answered here.

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How To Prevent Burn Out When Running A Creative 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?

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How I Made Over $2K in My First Two Months On Etsy

How-I-Made-Over-$2K-in-My-First-Two-Months-On-Etsy

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?!

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5 Practical Tips On Balancing Business And Motherhood

5 PRACTICAL Tips On Balancing Business And Motherhood

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.

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Accounting 101: 4 Things You Probably Aren’t Deducting (But Totally Should Be)

Accounting 101: 4 Things You Probably Aren't Deducting (But Totally Should Be)

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?

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