You built something worth selling. The question is whether the way you are selling it right now is actually working. For most product-based business owners, the answer is complicated. Sales come in. Sometimes. Markets bring traffic, but the income does not stack. Etsy gets a few orders, then goes quiet. Social media posts go out […]

April 22, 2026
Retail Ready Wholesale Challenge

If you’ve been thinking about reaching out to retail buyers for more than one season, this might be uncomfortable to read. You’ve done the research. You know what a line sheet is. You’ve browsed Faire. You’ve made a mental list of the retail buyers and boutiques you’d love to work with someday. And yet the […]

April 8, 2026
Reaching out to Retail Buyers

Most business advice sounds some version of the same: show up more, post more, do more. Work before everyone else wakes up and after everyone else goes to sleep. But Gillian Perkins, founder of Startup Society and creator of a YouTube channel with over 700,000 subscribers, has been running a six-figure online business for years, […]

March 18, 2026
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