A couple months ago, I was invited to share the Pickles story on The Handmade Seller, and their August Issue with my interview launches TODAY! The feature is largely focused on how Pickles growth has been so incremental but each milestone has accumulated into something really awesome, and more re...

As I was sharing about Renegade sales last week, I got super curious about ALL the sales. Here's a graph of all my craft fair sales, sorted by 1. Length of craft fair, 2. MM/YY in time I really loved graphing this out and it's very fascinating to look at this and reminisce through the years... ...

I wanted to follow my own advice from my last blog post about sales funnels and try to get even more top of funnel customers at Renegade last weekend.  Last year, I started to run these 2 promos at craft fairs: 1. Free card with any purchase with an IG follow 2. Subscribe to our email newsletter...

I went crazy in 2015 for craft fairs. I got a whiff of it and couldn't get enough— the anticipation while prepping, talking to customers and getting real-time feedback, pushing past exhaustion when I got home to unload and count the cash... It was exhilarating to see how much I could make in one ...

I've been working more with numbers, charts, and light analytics at work which has been really fun to learn. Through this, I got very curious and excited to track some numbers for Pickles over the years. I am so horrible with numbers and my brain doesn't remember information in that way so what ...