#1254 - Petal to the Metal: Sisters Start Blooming Jewelry Store

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Entrepreneurship,, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Small Business

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When two artistic sisters create floral resin jewelry, they start a budding side hustle that really puts the petal to the metal.

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0:00.0	Hey there, what's up?
0:05.4	It's Chris Gillebo here, your host of Side Usal School.
0:08.4	Hope you are doing well at whatever part of the world you're in.
0:10.7	Hope you're working hard.
0:11.7	I hope you're looking out for somebody.
0:12.9	I hope you're also taking care of yourself.
0:15.4	That is critical, not just in this day and age, but in every day and age.
0:18.8	Today I want to talk to you about making it on Etsy.
0:21.3	We've had a number of Etsy stories over the years.
0:24.4	But how do you make it there?
0:25.4	The pathway to Etsy success is paved with so many failed sellers.
0:29.4	I just made that metaphor up on the fly, so I'm not sure it totally fits.
0:33.3	But the point is lots of people try to sell on Etsy, most of them sell very few items and
0:38.2	make very little money.
0:39.7	So how do you succeed?
0:40.7	Well, you succeed by not doing the same thing everybody else does.
0:43.4	And then by continuing to adapt when people inevitably copy you.
0:47.4	Because if you're successful there in lots of other places, but particularly in a marketplace
0:50.8	like Etsy where everything is handmade, people will come along and copycat your designs.
0:55.2	Hey, I didn't say it was easy.
0:56.5	None of this stuff is easy, but it's all worth it.
0:59.1	In this story, two sisters, originally from Miami, make and sell jewelry with real
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