The Cynsational Entrepreneur

How to get your shop ready for the busy holiday season for maximum profit and minimum stress.    “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year..” It’s time to get your Etsy shop .. and your life.. ready for the busy holiday season. For many shops, a majority of their sales are made in the last quarter of the year. In fact, some shop’s entire sales targets for the year are reached during November and December.  Sounds good, right? It can be, if you and your shop are ready. You can’t reach your sales goals if you don’t have the...

Making the jump from corporate life or as a stay at home parent, to business owner, requires you to start thinking differently. You need to know your ‘WHY’ .. the big, overarching reason you that will propel you. Your ‘why’ should be strong enough to get you through the tough decisions, the overwhelming workload, and the rough patches.

You also need to the right mindset - fixed set of ideas that we all maintain about a certain subject. It determines how we will react to certain situations.

How many times have you said, “I need to find time” ..to do that project, meet with that client, etc. Where are you going to FIND time? Is it hidden away or did someone else use some of your allotted time? Can you order more time from Amazon? (Believe me, I would if I could!) We all have the same 24 hours in a day. Why does it seem that some people get more done than others in that same amount of time? To be successful at anything we must learn to manage our time efficiently. We waste time on...