As creatives, we craft our wares with care.

Thoughtful care with each stitch, each brush stroke, each spin of the potter’s wheel.

And then there’s that day: the one where you present your wares to the rest of the world on your card table, dressed up and ready for shoppers at your most recent craft show.

And then it happens: it’s that crucial moment where we have SELL.

If you get the sweats when you hear this four letter word, I have 5 tips to …

You’re multi-passionate. You’re crafty.

You can’t seem to keep your creative brain still.

You’re always coming up with brilliant craft ideas for new things to design and make!

So you grab the scissors and take out the sewing machine to create something really awesome.

But you look in your Etsy shop and you’re confused.

Why aren’t you making more Etsy sales?

The secret ingredient you’re missing that no one talks about is revealed here

Read on as Meredith Erin talks about her cautionary yet super inspiring tale …

It’s that time of the year for you when sales have come to a halt.

You might be freaking out and thinking that your business is broken.

Don’t panic!

For most of us, we sell products that are seasonal.

Gift products sell best in the fourth quarter with Christmas funding most of our sales.

Wedding products do best in the spring and summer.

Planner and organizational products are great for the start of the year.

That’s just the nature of doing business.

You might …

Have you heard about what Instagram is doing that will dramatically change your Instagram marketing plans?

No more flying blind.

No more winging it.

For most makers, artists and designers I teach and mentor, Instagram is their top choice of marketing to get traffic and sales to their shop.

Unfortunately, that’s about to change.

Instagram announced on March 15, 2016 that they were going to implement an algorithm that would show the best posts to you first, rather than in chronological order as it had been …