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Category: Microbusiness

I’ve moved from a true microbusiness to a hobby, but I’m still having fun crunching numbers to find material costs, looking into various marketing ideas, and other things business related. Older posts deal with taxes, and who knows, maybe in the future I’ll start the business up again!

Martha.net shop screenshot September 23 2020

The State of the Store

I’m starting to get overwhelmed by just how many things I have left to get up in the store. But large projects are just a series of smaller projects lumped together, so I figured if I broke it out and started tracking my progress– it might cheer me up! (You can never have enough spreadsheets…

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2020 Website Users

For Want of a Click-Through

My blog is on a new host, my store is getting stocked… time to start trying to bring in the eyeballs! 😁 Thankfully overall traffic hasn’t dropped as much as I’d feared, due to the various issues with BlueHost. Now that things are stable again I should be able to regain the confidence of the…

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2020 Crafting Microbusiness Woes

Of Profit Motives and Other Failures

I’ve been a bad tiny creative this year and it’s time to get my side-hustle husting again and a smidge closer to break-even before January rolls around!

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In-Progress photo of Breyer Stableamte scale Three-Rail Fencing

Revisiting Model Fencing costs

Back in 2016, I did a post on costing out the model horse bases and fencing, but with my move to hosting my own shop, it’s time for an update! ?

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Etsy Screenshot April 2020

Abandoning Etsy

I’ve been on Etsy since 2008, but only really made a serious effort into advertising/marketing for a few years. In that time I’ve managed to make 127 sales, and pay Etsy several hundred dollars in the process. My target audience just isn’t on the platform and me spending time (and money) pushing traffic there really…

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