This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SamsungGS9Upgrade #SamsungTargetTech #CollectiveBias Hey you – anyone looking to take stellar photos! I am absolutely obsessed with the camera on the new Samsung Galaxy S9. It can help you take photos that are brilliant, beautiful, and can help you […]
In May, we participated in Renegade Craft Fair for the first time. If you know us, then you will know that we started by hosting our own biannual festival. It was a great ride but it prevented us from being able to partner with great organizations which has also been a whole lot of fun. […]
You guys, I am getting super serious about Instagram. If you are a business you need to think beyond family photos or even just photos of your products. You need to make your content stand out and your content sparkle. That means placement of images, telling a color story and ensuring that everything blends, using […]
Growing your Instagram is a unique challenge and super important to a visual business. Instagram is a high profile social media where your number of followers and likes per image counts a lot. Your likes and number of followers determines your credibility as a business. So how to you maximize exposure and gain new followers? […]
Nothing is more confusing as a handmade maker than creating your prices! On one hand, you may feel compelled to compete with prices at bix box stores. And it may be confusing to value your hourly time. At Pop Shop America, we’ve created our own goods in house, we’ve sold other people’s goods, we’ve hosted […]
Feeling inspired to grow, change, or create your website? YOU GOT THIS. It’s one of the most challenging, time consuming, and rewarding aspects of having a product based business. If you ask me, the two best platforms for building websites are WordPress/Woocommerce & Shopify. Both of them are great for different reasons and work best […]
If you’ve ever hosted events or been out on job sites. If you’ve ever had a full day of meetings with no breaks. Or if you’ve had out of town work you know that keeping up with social media can be a challenge. And as a small business keeping up with your social media is […]
In case you missed this in the news, in early July 2017 Hobby Lobby was fined $3 million dollars and forced to forfeit 5,500 stolen Iraqi artifacts.These artifacts were intended to be on display at Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible set to open in DC near the end of 2017. Although Hobby Lobby maintains […]
I love working with handmade boutiques because it’s a great way to reach new people, collaborate with shops, and make money too! Although most makers will have their greatest success with in person sales like pop up markets, or if they are total web gurus, they may have their greatest sales on Etsy. But the […]
DOWNLOAD THE FREE EBOOK HERE You guys. This month I received 500 new Email Subscribers. It was more than usual but we’ve been implementing some great strategies. Half of these Email Subscribers came in through our website, pop up, and other digital media. And half we’re received in person at a big event we hosted. […]