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Why Your Handmade Business Isn’t Getting Sales (And What to Do About It)

Why Your Handmade Business Isn’t Getting Sales (And What to Do About It)

Let’s get one thing straight…

 

If you’re showing up on Instagram, posting regularly, tweaking your Etsy listings, maybe eve...

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Etsy’s Q1 Results + Q Score Update: What It Means for Your Etsy Shop in 2025

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead - 

#60 - Etsy’s Q1 Results + Q Score Update: What Handmade Sellers Need to Know

Etsy just dropped their Q1 2025 financial report… and there’s more to ...

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Are You Guessing or Growing? How Consistency (Not Just Creativity) Leads to Sales

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead - Why Your Sales Are Inconsistent (And How to Fix It for Good)

🎢 Feel like your sales are on a constant rollercoaster? One week you’re rushed off your ...

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Real Talk: Does the Handmade Business Success Academy Actually Work?

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead - REAL TALK Does the HBSA actually work?

💙 In this episode we hear directly from students of the HBSA about their experiences and whether the course ha...

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Heather’s Handmade Business Journey: From Doubt to Dream Orders

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead -  'The perfect journey' for our HBSA Student Heather

💙 'The perfect journey' for Heather and we want it to be for you too!

💬 Steph chats with Heather...

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How to Keep Going When You’re Not Seeing Results in Your Handmade Business

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead -  How to keep going when you're not seeing results - AMA (Ask Me Anything)

👋 Welcome back to the How To Be A Handmade Boss podcast!

🎉 In this episode...

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📈 Marketing has changed since 2020. Here's what's working now (backed by research) ✅

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead: #45 - Marketing has changed since 2020. Here's what's working now (backed by research)

📱 Marketing as we used to know it has changed! If you've notice...

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🎙️ Interview with Charly Bee Designs: From Passion to Full-Time Handmade Success 🎙️

 

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead: #38 Crafting Success: Charly's Journey to Niche Mastery and Business Resilience

 

 

 


 

Introduction The world of handmade business is an e...

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🪂 Crafting Success: Charly's Journey to Niche Mastery and Business Resilience 🪂

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead: #38 Crafting Success: Charly's Journey to Niche Mastery and Business Resilience

 

 


 

 

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HBSA student Tara's honest conversation about her business then and now

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead: #34 - "A year ago I was listing something on Etsy, finding it wasn't selling and having a panic attack" HBSA student Tara's honest conversation about h...

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