One of the most frequent questions I get asked is "who are your suppliers" or "how do you find suppliers?"
STEP 1: RESEARCH
I use Google or Yelp to find suppliers. Search similar phrases (for eg, include "screen printing" and "tshirt printing" instead of just "tote printing") in case suppliers SE...
My website sales are 1088% YoY (my sales from 1/1/2020-8/31/2020 were 10.88x higher than my sales from 1/1/2019-8/31/2019). I can't believe it either; these numbers seem unreal to me.My decision to take a break between my jobs (which was kind of scary— I had never left a job without another lined...
5 q's to consider:** BUT FIRST!!! If you are looking to sell to wholesale, I 100% recommend joining a community or taking a class on it. There are SO many nuances, edge case scenarios, and support you will need as you launch. The community and course I got from Proof to Product sooo many years ag...
Deciding whether to start your shop on Etsy or your own website really comes down to answering one question: Are you starting this business to A) establish a brand & scale a business, or B) sell something for fun and see where it goes?
Which one should you use?
Investing in your own website ...
I don't have much to say about the epidemic (follow my Flipboard magazine for interesting reads about it, though! (Why yes, I did just start a job there this week ;)) that hasn't already been said, but I know this crazy time has affected everyone in some way and, on top of that, I know how blesse...
2.5 months (and a whole different world...) ago, I asked a question on insta-stories:
"2 weeks ago, I released a new pin, 1 week ago, I released personal stationery, and this week, I released sticker sheets. Is it annoying when I release products 1 by 1, week by week?"
In Pickles history, I p...
It’s really hard for me to have a definite date of the beginning of A Jar of Pickles. My Etsy was a random thing I started in college because I was making fliers/logos etc for student groups on campus, and my roommates suggested I should put stuff up for fun. It was a very passive project; I’d just design things every couple of months when I felt like it.
Because of this, I never had a “launch date” but the start of Pickles can be marked by a few significant milestones:
I have been thinking about making letterpress cards for YEARS. Inspired after I went to a letterpress workshop, I reached out to a bunch of letterpress printers in 2015.
Every year I consider it, and every year I chicken out. I am very risk adverse and rarely will take any kind of financial risks with Pickles, even if it's not technically a risk (for example, it took me 5 years to buy a $200 label printer.. lol).
But while I spend lots of time on Pickles in my current job-less state, I am so, so close to taking the leap!