How To Be A Handmade Boss
Whether you’re a complete beginner on Etsy, or want to scale your handmade business to multi-6 figures, the “How To Be A Handmade Boss” podcast gives you actionable advice and workshop style full length episodes to grow your handmade business on Etsy and beyond.
We get it. Starting or growing a handmade business can be really overwhelming, and sometimes you feel like you have an expensive hobby rather than a profitable business. If you have questions like “How can I make sales in my business?” “How do I start a handmade shop?” “How can I make this passion my full-time gig?” or “How do I sell my crafts online” then you’re in the right place boss!
I’m Steph, a multi 6-figure handmade business owner (in the top 0.1% of all shops on Etsy), bestselling author of “How to be a handmade boss”, visionary and coach behind Handmade Bosses.
However, It wasn’t always rainbows and unicorns though. Today, my business(es) are bustling, but way back in 2014 when I started, it was HARD. Favourites but no sales, slow sales and low profits seemed in the beginning, like the trajectory of my business. Luckily following the system I’ve now curated, All of that changed and I went full-time in my handmade business in 2016.
Let’s focus on turning your passion into profit, because the world really does need these special creations that you only bring to life.
How To Be A Handmade Boss
#118 - Etsy SEO For Beginners: Stop Using Random Keywords
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Etsy SEO sounds fancy, but honestly? It’s mostly about using the words your buyers are already typing into Etsy.
This Etsy for beginners video is for handmade sellers who are new to Etsy and feel like keywords are some sort of secret code guarded by a very smug algorithm.
They’re not. Promise.
What you’ll learn:
What Etsy SEO actually means
Why vague keywords hurt your listings
How to find buyer-friendly Etsy keywords
Where to use keywords in your listing
How to start your Etsy shop with clearer, searchable listings
And if your Etsy listings still aren’t selling yet, grab the free guide here: https://www.handmadebosses.com/whynosales