Pancake Town Podcast Emily Wentz + Michelle Starbuck Amos

In this week’s episode, Emily and Michelle talk about ’name-dropping’ yourself as a small business owner, not being too reliant on any one revenue stream, and our real feelings about social media influencers.

We’re back after an 18-month hiatus to talk about the impending Etsy Strike. Includes a lengthy reintroduction to your hosts, Emily (OrangeBeautiful) and Michelle (Michelle Starbuck Designs). Enjoy!

In this week's episode, Michelle and Emily are here for your Election Day distraction!  They share their somewhat apathetic holiday sales plans for this year and why they’re not putting too much pressure on themselves to make up for lost income due to COVID.
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Is it possible for a business to quit social media?  This week, Emily and Michelle react to a handmade jewelry business’ decision to leave all social media platforms.  While the idea of deleting Facebook and never posting on Instagram ever again is very tempting, Emily and Michelle try to figure out if there’s a more practical solution.
 
Also, does it really count as 'leaving' social media if you just stop posting, but leave your account active?

Last week was Amazon Prime Day and the small business community showed up to encourage their customers to spend their money thoughtfully, and to remind them that small businesses have been hurting this year while Amazon is profiting off of the pandemic.
Emily and Michelle were surprised to discover that there is a small faction of makers that were offended by the anti-Amazon agenda and one business owner specifically felt the need to attack Emily’s Instagram post that encouraged the support of shopping small over shopping 'Prime'.
Since it’s impossible to have a rational discussion on social media, Emily did the only reasonable thing: deleted the comments and talked about it on our podcast instead!

After a bit of a hiatus, Emily and Michelle are back! They dive right into the hottest topic of the moment: How to respond when you're told to “stick to {your business}” and leave politics out of it.
This year has demanded that we - small business owners - turn the camera on ourselves to remind our customers that we’re real people in need of their support.
When we're asked to pull the curtain back to share more and more of our personal lives, then it should be expected that our political views will come along with that.  If it’s okay for us to share every loaf of bread we’ve baked during quarantine, then it should also be okay for us to post about Black Lives Matter or which candidate we’re supporting in the upcoming election...