5 Handmade Gifts for Self Love
These 5 handmade gifts are all about compassion and self love. Treat yourself or give them to a friend who could use a reminder to be kind to themselves.
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Artisan Profile: The Beat In Between
The first in our Artisan Profile series: featuring The Beat In Between. A shop run by Raffi Marhaba, who creates “radical queer things and everything in between.”
Our Ownership Model
In this post, we’re presenting our ownership and governance model and explain how it was developed.
Handmade Survey Results
In this post, we’re sharing the results of our “Handmade Definition Survey” for our handmade cooperative marketplace.
Our Marketplace Tech Plan
In this post, we explain the details of our approach to the marketplace technology, summarize our research, present our plan to use Hosted E-commerce / Shopify, and our next steps going forward.
4 Handmade Gifts for a Clean Start to Spring
The transition from winter to spring is associated with sweeping away the cobwebs, sloughing off the dead skins, and starting anew. Use this guide to inspire a clean start to your spring! Wash away the winter blues and shake off the seasonal affective disorder with items from makers in the Artisans Cooperative.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Other Marketplaces (Guest Post 5/5)
[Guest Post 5/5] The final post and conclusion to our series tells about our experience trying other marketplaces as an alternative to Etsy to diversify our income.
Handmade Definition Survey (10-15 Min)
We created a survey to learn your opinions on what kind of artisans and products to include on the Artisans Cooperative handmade marketplace. In this post, we’ll talk about why we developed a “handmade” definition survey, and give the background on how the poll was developed.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Dropshipping Sites (Guest Post 4/5)
[Guest Post] To diversify our income from Etsy, we tried selling our handmade products on dropshipping sites in the mid- to late-2010’s. This is what we learned.
Our Experience with Etsy Alternatives: Amazon (Guest Post 3/5)
[Guest Post] To diversify our income from Etsy, we decided to post a few of our items on Amazon in 2014. n this post, we’ll share what it was like for us to post our handmade products on Amazon over a period of four years.