#95 - BEST OF 2025 - #7 Starting a new Etsy shop or Handmade business? This is your to-do list

Holiday Replay: Our 2nd Most-Popular Episode of 2025 🤶

🎅 We’re rerunning the Start-Your-Shop Checklist because it helped a ton of makers stop faffing and finally launch. No waffle. No scare tactics. Just the order of steps that actually works.

What you’ll learn:

• A simple setup that makes you want to sit down and create
• Target market + niche, done without a headache
• A USP that isn’t “I make it with love”
• Naming your shop (short, memorable, available everywhere)
• Legal bits + money basics without the panic
• Your first 10 products, priced so you actually make profit
• Test → tweak → photos (and a quick 15s video)
• Packaging that looks polished, not pricey
• Shipping you can rely on
• A one-platform “home hub” so you’re not shouting into the void
• A tidy launch plan with drafts ready to go

Pop in your earbuds, grab a cuppa, and let’s get you open without the overwhelm.

Follow for more real-talk help for handmade sellers.

- Steph 🎄 xoxo

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