19 episodes
Wild and Spicy: Crafting a Business Molly Espenan
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We’re here to help you be more successful in your handmade business! This podcast focuses on how to start a business, building an online presence, managing time, and so much more. With a combined decade of experience selling our artwork, we want to share our mistakes and triumphs so that you can be a successful artist. This is also a place for creators! We want to connect with fellow business owners and share our experiences. Join us on this wild and spicy journey!
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Taxes: How We (sort of) Manage as Business Owners
Hello friends! We took a little bit of an unplanned break from our pod, but we’re very excited to be back. This episode is all about one of our favorite things, taxes! We cover some tips on how to make filing easier and some things you should look out for when it comes time to pay up in April. Enjoy!
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The $1.80 Method: Tips for Social Media Engagement and a Quick Followup
This episode is all about the $1.80 method, a strategy for increasing reach and engagement on Instagram. We talk about our experience using this method and also have a followup to our episode about in-person events. Both of us talk about some commission experiences that went a little awry so get ready for some tea!
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FAQ: Taxes, Environmental Impact of Business, Podcast Beginnings, and More!
In what we hope to be a monthly-ish segment, we are answering some great questions we got from our social media! Some of these we are asked a lot, and some are just really really great questions we had an awesome time taking a stab at. Come listen and learn with us!
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Social Media: How to Get Started on Pinterest
We are so excited to have Cat of Bijoux by Catherine with us for this episode all about Pinterest! Cat is a Pinterest expert and we are the exact opposite. This episode is all about getting started with using Pinterest to promote your business. We talk about our own experience getting started and Cat brings the expertise!
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SEO: How to Make Sure Your Store is Being Discovered
This episode is all about search engine optimization, or SEO. We talk about the very basics of SEO and how we utilize different features of Etsy and other free tools to make ensure our listings are visible and that they’re being shown to the right buyers. This episode focuses on Etsy and is just the beginning of what we will cover about SEO, so it’s perfect for any of you who have recently opened a store as well as being a great refresher for those who might already be familiar.
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Misconceptions and Mistakes: What to Avoid When Starting Your Business
In this week's episode, we talk all about some common misconceptions we held as new business owners and the mistakes we made because of them. We've made so many mistakes and the business of running a business is very trial-and-error, so we are confident that this is the first of many episodes like this. The mistakes we discuss in this week's episode are geared toward beginning a shop or those of you who may have recently started a business, but they are great reminders for those of you who have been selling your art for a while now. We discuss pricing items too low, offering too wide of a range of products, and a few other things you might do better avoiding.