My maker biz! Chereen of Smeeny Beanie Knits interviews me

Welcome back to season 6 of The Merriweather Council Podcast.

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If you feel intimidated by the size of your audience and how that is going to impact your successor etsy - this one is for you! If you've been putting off opening shop on Etsy until you have a big audience, don't! I'll explain why.

Many would be Etsy sellers, and quite a few already-sellers - feel that they cannot be successful on Etsy because they don't have a large following. There are lots of ways this manifests. It might sound like, "I don't have many instagram followers" or "I don't have a mailing list."

Basically it boils down to a general malaise of “I don't have an audience to sell to yet so I’m waiting for that before I open my shop" and / or “I don't have an audience to sell to so i cannot be successful on Etsy."

Thankfully though, those thoughts are actually completely incorrect!

You do NOT need a big, organic audience in order to have success on Etsy! You don't need any audience at all, actually.

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