Chapter 17
Growing Your Etsy Business
IN THIS CHAPTER
Bringing on helpers and production partners for your Etsy shop
Leveling up with Etsy Plus
Building a custom shop website
Translating your shop’s contents for international customers
Taking your Etsy show wherever you go
Maybe you’re content to run your Etsy shop as a hobby or a side hustle. Lots of Etsy sellers are. But maybe — just maybe — you’d like to grow your Etsy business to be your sole source of income. That’s what this chapter is about: taking your Etsy shop to the next level.
Howdy, Partner: Disclosing Shop Members and Production Partners
If you’re like most Etsy sellers, you’re probably a one-person band. You design and make (or curate) every product in your shop, post every listing, process every order, and ship every package. This may work great — until Taylor Swift posts an Insta of herself wearing one of your baubles and drives 50 million of her followers to your shop.
When (not if) your Etsy shop takes off, you ...
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