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HBSA Student Interviews

Steph Cole Lewis, founder of handmade bosses, is leaning over a laptop that has colourful emails flying from the screen. The title of the image is 🚀 This is when you should start an email list ✉️ when you have a handmade business on Etsy or your own website (Shopify) 💰

🚀 This is when you should start an email list ✉️ when you have a handmade business on Etsy or your own website (Shopify) 💰

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'When should I start an email list?'

✉️ Are you wondering when to start your email list?

⏳ In this episode I'll be helping you decide when the time ...

Steph Cole Lewis looking cool, peering over the top of her sun glasses. There is a green background with the title 'do you need social media?" for your handmade business. With little images of hearts, social media likes and shares

🙋‍♀️ Can you have a handmade business without social media? 🤯

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'Can you have a handmade business without social media?'

A question I'm asked on a regular basis is "do I have to be on social media to make sales i...

Steph Cole Lewis, founder of handmade bosses is looking down at the world 'when to trademark your handmade business'

💙 When should you trademark your handmade business? 💙

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'When should you trademark your business?'

💙 Are you wondering when to trademark your handmade business? Tune in as we break down the ins and outs of t...

⚡️ The BIG Update 🚀 Ecommerce world update 🌎 Etsy, Shopify, Instagram 🔥

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'The BIG Update - Ecommerce world update - Etsy, Shopify, Instagram, and more.

🚀 Are you struggling to keep a track of ecommerce updates that impact...

Steph Cole Lewis founder of Handmade Bosses is smiling. With a caption in pale pink letters stating 'Your New Business To-Do List' with a picture of a to do list, a heart with 'handmade' written inside and a ribbon with 'handmade with love' detailed on it. She is teaching people who are starting a new etsy shop or handmade business.

🤩 Starting a new Etsy shop or handmade business? 🛒 This is your to-do list. 🛍️

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'Starting a new Etsy shop or Handmade business? This is your to-do list'

Get ready to kickstart your handmade business journey with our ultimate to...

Steph Cole Lewis, handmade business coach for Etsy and your own website. She's wearing pick sunglasses and a link dress, holding lots of money and an Etsy shop sign. With the works 'Rank higher in 2024' referring to ranking higher in etsy algorithm

🚀 How to Get Your Handmade Products Ranking higher in Etsy Search Results 🚀

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'How to get your products ranking in Etsy search results?'

Struggling to get your products noticed online? In this episode, we're diving into the nitty...

Steph Cole Lewis, the founder and coach of handmade bosses looks shocked. There is writing saying 'How to resurrect a dead shop'. Steph helps people to get sales back into their handmade business on Etsy and their own website

☠️ How to resurrect your dead Etsy shop or your own website 💸 Get more sales in your handmade business 👐

So, first things first I don’t love the term “dead shop” - there’s so many different levels. A dead shop to me is something that hasn’t been up and running for three to four years, your listings have ...

Steph Cole Lewis , founder of the handmade bosses smiles with joy. There is green text stating 'what should I sell?' with a picture of a shop selling handmade products and a sign saying 'buy, sell'

🚀 What should I sell in my handmade business? 💰3 questions to ask

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'What should I sell in my handmade business?'

Starting a new online handmade business comes with its fair share of challenges, particul...

Steph Cole-Lewis, founder of the handmade bosses has a smile on her phase and a cuppa in her hand. Wearing a green cardigan she leans her head on her fist smiling. With 'Keep commerce human 2024' in bold writing. Etsys 4 focus areas of 2024

💁‍♀️ “Keep Commerce Human"... Etsys 4 focus areas of 2024 💁‍♀️

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'An URGENT update on Etsys future'

In this episode we delve into Etsy's Q1 financial results and the implications for handmade businesses on the platfo...

Steph Cole-Lewis founder of the Handmade Bosses has a cosy warm cup of tea in her hand. As she gazes at 'A beginners guide to the Etsy algorithm'

🧡 A beginners guide to the Etsy algorithm (how you can rank higher and get more sales) 🧡

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead 'How do I resurrect a dead shop?'

Are you tired of the guessing games when it comes to Etsy's search algorithm? Want to know what really moves the need...

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Steph is a top 0.1% Etsy seller and published author that has helped over 75,000 handmade business owners with her weekly tips and tricks and over 600+ creative business owners in her coaching programmes and 1-1 work. She's worked with clients across all niches and specialises in helping people start, run and scale their business to a 6-figure level. Steph doesn't want you to focus on "hacks and gimmicks" and the latest "shiny thing you have to focus on" but instead wants to help you build a sustainable and long-lasting legacy business.