By Donna Maria Coles Johnson/Small Business Trends I’ve seen it over and over again — new makers with stars in their eyes, launching a new business selling products they love to make, scratching an insatiable creative itch. In the beginning comes ...
By Arianne Foulks/Stephanie Lendrum The holiday market season is here. Along with it comes excitement, chaos, and exhaustion – and hopefully profits too. Bottom line – I think the key to success is to learn from your experiences and build your presence from one year ...
My studio could qualify for a Guinness World Record for “world’s densest collection of matter.” I have a lot of stuff. When I get more stuff, I just squeeze it into tinier and tinier spaces around my other stuff. I swear, ...
By Annie Pilon/Small Business Trends Amazon launched its Amazon Handmade page back in 2015. Since then, it has become one of the premier online destinations for handmade artisans looking to sell their goods. Rachel O’Neill is one of those artisans. She ...
By Angela Shah/Xconomy While studying for her PhD in biomedical sciences, Adrianne Stone took up jewelry-making as a stress reliever and side hustle, and sold her wares on Etsy Wholesale. But late last year, Stone says, she began to notice bugs ...
By Laura Fitch It’s a truth of running a business that appearances matter. From product size and packaging to employee uniforms and the decor of a retail space, how your business looks to both potential and returning customers could mean the ...
Mid-September, 2018, Amazon opened “Amazon Storefronts,” a new store for customers to shop exclusively from U.S. small and medium-sized businesses selling on Amazon. With Storefronts, customers can shop a curated collection of over one million products, and deals from nearly 20,000 ...
By Michael Guta/Small Business Trends With the holiday shopping season fast approaching, FedEx (NYSE: FDX) has announced it is expanding its US operations to six days per week year round. In the past, FedEx only ran six or seven-day ground operations during ...
By Brenda Flynn In today’s world, cash might still be king, but to run your handmade business efficiently and profitably, the consensus among independent artists is that you need to be able to accept credit cards. Many people no longer carry ...
By Deanna Jensen So you’ve started your handmade business; you’re making some sales and gaining some traction, but you know it could be doing better. I’ve previously shared six great tips for selling handmade products on Etsy, but I’ve learned even ...
