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Too Good to Be True? {Quit Your Day Job}

May 7, 2013

{Don’t Stop Believing by JoyfulSongGraphics on Etsy} If you, in a daring and wishful moment, share your dream of making your living online with another person, you’re likely to get some less-than-helpful negativity. Dream on, they say. Not gonna happen. Too good to be true. Even you supportive BFF might come back with a “helpful [...]

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Opportunity Is an Open Door

April 17, 2013

When you work full-time online, you start to see “connections” that lead back to your own stuff. You’ll see tweets, pins, and shares from people you don’t directly know talking about something you created. That might be a blog post, an item on your Etsy shop, or a review you wrote somewhere. Whatever it is, [...]

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Life is a Great Big Canvas {Free Printables}

June 25, 2012
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I love this quote! Life really is a great big canvas and I’m excited to be living it in a creative environment and throwing on all the paint I can! Well, to be totally accurate, I usually spray my paint on! That still counts right? Here are a couple of free printables you can download [...]

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The Secret to Success Without Genius or Money

March 12, 2012
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{Image via typeeverything.com} I’ve been writing this blog for about three years. Want to know something awesome? A surprisingly large percentage of the people I first “met” in blogging about Etsy are still creating and selling online. They still have Etsy shops. They still have blogs. They’re still going strong. Some of them have had [...]

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5 Things Shrimping Taught Me About Selling Online

February 18, 2012
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Pin It I really love travel and I’m pretty sure travel loves me back. I can tell because things always seem to work out great for us when we decide to just “take off” with no plan and no advance notice. My Valentine’s Day started off pretty normal, but by midnight I was 200 miles [...]

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Get Excited About Handmade in 2012!

January 1, 2012
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Happy New Year! I’m really excited about the year to come. And I don’t just mean in an optimistic “it’s all good, happy, happy, joy, joy, rah, rah!” sort of way. I confess that I try to get that sort of feeling revved up inside me every January 1st. I mean, why start the year [...]

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Successful Prospecting on Etsy

December 16, 2011

The Internet has been likened to a gold rush and it’s really not a bad analogy. The truth is, there are thousands of ways to make money online. Some are better than others and there are lots of people trying to hit the mother lode. The truth is that the majority of successful Gold Rush [...]

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A Positive Attitude

September 27, 2011
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Do you think there were people that told Walt Disney that he was a little too optimistic with his plans and ideas?  I bet there were more than a few people. I’m sure there were times when things changed that were out of his control and he had the choice to either keep going with [...]

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Keep Learning, Stay Young!

July 22, 2011
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford When I look at some of the things I’ve had to learn in order to sell online I’m often a bit surprised by it [...]

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Overcoming People Who Don’t Get It

June 30, 2011

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Angela Monet “If the business you’re in is so great, why are you so broke?” Have you ever had to answer that question, or some variation of it? We have. Don’t take it personally. It’s simply because [...]

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Earn a Free Car Selling on Etsy!

June 2, 2011
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You read that right! You can earn a free car this year selling on Etsy. But if you’re thinking “sweepstakes” or “giveaway”, I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. Catch that first word… earn! One of my favorite sayings or quotes is this: You don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step. I [...]

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Four Habits For Long Term Success on Etsy

May 10, 2011

One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb Why do people stop trying? What causes us to be discouraged? What happens to the dream that starts out so bright? More revealing: Why do some experience such great success doing the exact same thing that seemed impossible to another? There is one [...]

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