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PART 3 - Engaging and Selling to Your Live Audience

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - April 18, 2024 09:00 - 19 minutes
Part 3 of the "Mastering Live Sales: A Handmade Seller's Guide" is Engaging & Selling to Your Live Audience. Parker is sharing some of his best presentation tips including giving us some (almost) scripts to practice which make selling on video easier. He's also helping us with how to showcase pro...

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PART 2 - Planning Your Live Sale Event

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 16 minutes
Part 2 of Mastering Live Sales (which is also applicable to Mastering Live Video in general), Parker is digging into planning and preparation. From setting goals and objectives, to creating a run sheet, to promoting your live event, this episode includes all the planning and preparation steps to ...

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PART 1: Introduction to Live Selling

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - April 04, 2024 09:00 - 15 minutes
In this new season, Parker is breaking down Mastering Live Sales. This week is an introduction to live selling: the benefits of using video, overcoming common objections, choosing the right platform to sell on, and preparing for your first live sale. If you could use a boost in sales and are look...

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PART 7: Building Resilience

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes
In the final part of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker is getting more personal and sharing his own journey with building resilience. Resilience is a tough concept both in business and in personal affairs, but when you blend consist...

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PART 6: Engaging with Your Audience

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes
In part 6 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker discusses audience engagement. This episode explores the concepts of transparency, different communication methods for interaction and trust, and learning from mistakes to develop resil...

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PART 5: Leveraging Customer Feedback for Growth

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - March 14, 2024 09:00 - 18 minutes
In part 5 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker planned to discuss excellence in customer service, but has pivoted to focus instead on leveraging customer feedback for growth. Listen in for Parker's tips about setting boundaries with...

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PART 4: Lessons and Improvements

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - March 07, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes
In part 4 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker explores some of the biggest lessons and takeaways learned from a big business mistake that happened last month with the DecoExchange subscription box. From the importance of mindset and...

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PART 3: Community to the Rescue

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - February 29, 2024 09:00 - 20 minutes
In part 3 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker explores how beautiful the community is attached to DecoExchange and how powerful it is to have such strong connections with your customers when mistakes happen. ---------------------...

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PART 2: Transparency First

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - February 22, 2024 09:00 - 21 minutes
In part 2 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker is diving into the importance of transparency as a core value in business, and how Damon & Parker leveraged transparency when responding to a significant mishap in their subscription box...

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PART 1: The Heart of the Matter

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - February 15, 2024 09:00 - 17 minutes
In part 1 of the Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience 7-part podcast series, Parker explains a recent major mishap that occurred in our subscription box business. Plus, he's giving you a sneak peek into what to expect in the next 6 episodes. --------------------- Join...

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NEW 7 Part Series! Navigating Business Challenges: A Maker's Journey to Resilience

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - February 15, 2024 01:34 - 2 minutes
Parker is COMMITTED... to 7 more podcast episodes! We're excited to bring you this 7-part series around navigating business challenges, inspired by a pretty significant challenge we faced in our business this past month. Make sure you follow or subscribe wherever you like listening to podcasts so...

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Coming Soon: The Makers Mean Business Podcast Season 3!

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - June 15, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes
Tell us what you want to hear from us: https://damonoates.kartra.com/survey/RxatFezkE8Xc?fbclid=IwAR008vWrNhvIuOg6j-Yqks0vwJs-_Met2TciC-NNEQoR7QGkH0A5oiftlts --------------------- Join The Makers University: https://themakersuniversity.com/ Learn more: http://makersmeanbusiness.com Are you fo...

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When nothing is working anymore: Then what?

Un-Focusedpreneur - April 12, 2022 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Look, the world is in a rough place right now. Russia and Ukraine, inflation’s out of hand, no one really has any idea what’s going on with corona… And in the face of all that, lots of people are experiencing income loss, lack of sales, and all the shitty side effects that come with an unstable...

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“I JUST NEED TO TRY ONE MORE THING” - (and other excuses)

Un-Focusedpreneur - April 05, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
There are SO many ideas and tactics waiting for your shop online. One quick scroll down google could give you a to-do list for MONTHS. Today’s episode is one where we dive into the never-ending task list – there will always be MORE ideas. What happens to a normal shop when you start trying to ...

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How to Run a Shop that Doesn’t RUN YOU

Un-Focusedpreneur - March 29, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
When we survey our top online sellers (those making $5000/month or more…) we find some really shocking differences you DEFINITELY need to hear. The biggest one?? Not one of them is active on social media right now. It’s all part of the larger trend where you create a business that doesn’t RUN ...

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You're Sabotaging Your Own Profit

Un-Focusedpreneur - March 22, 2022 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Are you sabotaging your own profit? Let’s test you and find out… Have you thought any of these sentences recently? I can’t do that UNTIL I have more money… I can’t hire help UNTIL my business is making $100k a year… I can’t put my shop on vacation UNTIL I make more… I can’t have another kid...

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Why I was the worst boss I ever had…

Un-Focusedpreneur - March 15, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In today’s episode, my head coach CHRIS is joining me to talk about what it’s REALLY like to work for yourself from home…Will it ever look the way you thought it would? Or will you wind up SLAVE-DRIVING yourself into the ground? We talk about why everyone seems to get overwhelmed working from ho...

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Everything Seems to Cost $9 a Month These Days… Except Your Products…

Un-Focusedpreneur - March 08, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Have you hit a plateau? Are you doing everything you’re supposed to, but still not seeing growth? Did your monthly income used to make you proud, but now it’s just “meh”? Today’s episode is all about reinvigorating your sales with a magic strategy you’ve seen pretty much everywhere before. But ...

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Your Customers Are *Secretly* Telling You Everything You Need

Un-Focusedpreneur - March 01, 2022 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Customers talk to you with their wallet..but wtf are they trying to say?? These *secret* messages hold the key to how you can double or triple your income this year, and all you have to do is follow the roadmap customers ALREADY made for you! Let’s figure out what secret messages are lurking in ...

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Living in an *Inflation World* – Are You an Inflation Girl?

Un-Focusedpreneur - February 22, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Ahhh inflation is coming for us and it’s TERRIFYING!! What do we do as online sellers when everything is more expensive?? How can we apply STRATEGY to a world that’s rapidly changing right in front of us? How do we prevent our shops from crashing when there’s a limit to what we can charge for ce...

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You skipped this task to sell online and now it’s haunting you…

Un-Focusedpreneur - February 15, 2022 17:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Do you know who you’re selling to? Or did you just find a product someone else was selling, create your own version…then assume it would all just work out? Well if you don’t know who your target customer is, you’re losing hundreds of dollars…PER DAY. Get help with your shop here - https://www.u...

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Google Doesn’t Know How to Grow Your Shop

Un-Focusedpreneur - February 08, 2022 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Have you noticed that when you google “how to grow my shop” the answers are pretty much all the same? They tell you to “post on social media” and “add lots of products” oh – and “don’t forget an email list!” That’s all fine except for one thing: that advice doesn’t work. None of it is DETAILED e...

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UNREAL TRUTH: The State of Etsy in 2022

Un-Focusedpreneur - February 01, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
What are online sellers doing to make big sales in 2022? Is it Etsy? Amazon? Tik Tok…Or is there something else entirely that you’re missing?? In today’s episode, we’re gonna cover the ONE simple thing you need to make serious progress (and profit) with your online shop this year. Tell us about...

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Unfocusedpreneur Podcast Trailer

Un-Focusedpreneur - January 27, 2022 02:52 - 44 seconds ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Welcome to Unfocusedpreneur… the show where we talk no-bullshit strategies to *CATAPULT* your online shop and help you *QUIT* that mediocre day job.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unfocused-preneur/message

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How to Stop Failing on Etsy

Un-Focusedpreneur - December 01, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
What if you sold on Etsy but didn't see results for TEN years? Listen to a veteran Etsy seller as she tells you what you REALLY need to get sales on Etsy. birchplease.co/how-to-stop-failing-on-etsy -------------------------------------- Want an Etsy tip that’s proven to work every week? Sign...

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Sale Samurai: Get Instant Etsy Advice for More Traffic

Un-Focusedpreneur - November 03, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In today's selling on Etsy podcast let's talk TOOLS for success. Wanna plug your shop into software and get instant sales advice? Sale Samurai does exactly that! http://birchplease.co/sale-samurai-more-etsy-traffic -------------------------------------- Want an Etsy tip that’s proven to work ...

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Episode 040: Living a creative life filled with intention and purpose with Nicole Stevenson

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - October 28, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes
This week, Parker gets to sit down with Nicole Stevenson of Dear Handmade Life for an interview of intimate stories and practical advice for living a creative life filled with intention and purpose.  For more info on all the amazing things Nicole and Dear Handmade Life are working on, check it o...

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Episode 039: Hosting In-Person Classes and Events with Melissa Morrow aka Mellie Mel

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - October 21, 2021 06:00 - 17 minutes
This week we are catching up with Melissa Morrow (otherwise known at Mellie Mel) about her experience at Wreath Makers Live 2021.  For more info on the conference and all the speakers and sponsors, you can check out https://wreathmakerslive.com/    --------------------- Are you following Damo...

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Episode 038: The Best Pinterest Tips for Your Creative Business with Allie DeMoss

Makers Mean Business® with Damon Oates and Parker Stelly of DecoExchange® - October 14, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutes
Today's episode is a recap and overview of Allie DeMoss's talk at Wreath Makers Live, all about using Pinterest for your creative business! For more info on the conference and all the speakers and sponsors, you can check out https://wreathmakerslive.com/    --------------------- Are you follo...

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Is Etsy Something You Can Do Alone?

Un-Focusedpreneur - September 08, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This Etsy podcast covers the DOWN side of working for yourself online...What is the ONE thing all sellers seem to forget once they leave the workplace? Hint: It's costing you THOUSANDS in lost revenue each year! https://www.birchplease.co/income-booster-that-all-etsy-sellers-overlook ---------...