Creating and selling products you love - with Kate Towers
Bring Your Product Idea to Life
English - July 09, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBEntrepreneurship Business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kate Towers designs and creates colourful, feelgood prints, cards and homeware, helping bring colour into people's lives.
Listen in to hear Kate share:
An introduction to her business and what she creates and sells (00:57)How she learnt the skills she uses to design and create her products (03:01)How she went about finding suppliers for digital printing (07:01)The importance of ordering samples (09:42)When and how she became a business (10:18)Why (and how) she built a following on social media, alongside her Etsy store (11:15)How she used Instagram ads successfully (13:51)How Etsy analytics work (17:12)Rebranding her business (20:40)How she manages stock (24:28)Tips for other Etsy sellers - particularly if you’re just starting out (25:44)The importance of gettings reviews - and how you can do that (27:59)Where she gets her inspiration (30:22)Managing her business, a day job and a young family - and why having passion for what you do is so important (32:16)Her number one piece of advice for other product creators (38:00)USEFUL RESOURCES:
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