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I opened an Etsy shop! - Miss Known
O.M.G. I opened an Etsy shop! I’m so f*ing scared right now. It’s such a big step. This isn’t playing with dolls anymore. I actually have a little shop online where people can buy stuff made by me. I can sell to anyone all over the world. I. Am. Terrified. I can’t believe this day actually came. Since I discovered Etsy it was always in the back of my mind trying out to open a little shop there, although I never knew what to sell. But that thought was always just that, a thought. Last year, I graduated from Uni and took a gap year to focus on the blog and see if it was something that I would like to invest for real. And having a blog as the only source of income is almost impossible, so I started thinking, what could I do to generate more income? I’ve seen a lot of times online people saying that I could sell my own DIYs, and it got me thinking. On a moment of confidence, I decided that I was going to open my own Etsy shop. However, I got caught up in the moment and started to plan and design things that weren’t a priority like business cards and thank you notes, and I know those things are also important, but they can’t be made before the actual products to be created. Soon, I realised I was stuck inside my perfectionism aka procrastination, instead of actually doing something to sell in the shop. And now here we are, a year later, with my shop open only because I actually set a deadline to make the products, and once they were done, I quickly set up the shop. Right now, I only have a few tassel keychain to sell and the shop is pretty much a work in progress. I could have everything ready until the last detail to lunch, but I tried to do that last time, and you already know how that turned out. I still have a lot of details to get right, things to write, discover exactly what I want to sell, and learn this whole new world of selling on Etsy. Although not everything is a piece of cake. I know the path will be rough – after all, I am a blogger I already know how hard it is – and it will take...
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