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Quick Hit: How Aggressive Should I Get With My Holiday Marketing?
464 | How to Grow Repeat Customers Instead of Always Chasing New Ones with Elizabeth Rees, Chasing Paper
Quick Hit: Should I Create My Own Gift Guide For the Upcoming Holidays?
463 | How NY NOW’s New Ownership is Reimagining the Experience For Brands and Buyers with Dorothy Belshaw
Quick Hit: Is My Business Serving Me What I Really Want?
462 | The 5-Day Exercise That Sets Your #1 Business Priority Every Quarter with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: How Do I Decide What New Products to Add to My Line?
461 | How to Use Faire Without Paying Commission on Every Order with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: Do You Really Need to Know Everything Before You Start?
460 | Building a Cohesive Product Line with Amita Nair, Amicreative
Quick Hit: How Can I Practice Self-Care During a Busy Work Season?
459 | What Happens When You Build a Successful Business You No Longer Want to Run with Lisa Congdon
Quick Hit: How Do I Find My Unique Voice as an Artist When The World is Hard?
458 | How to Build Multiple Revenue Streams in a Product Business with Melissa Hyatt with Melissa Hyatt
Quick Hit: Should I Be Collaborating More in My Business?
457 | The Cost of Not Doing Paper Camp with Katie Hunt
456 | 690 Wholesale Accounts and We Still Found Money Left on the Table, Case Study with Rachel O’Neill, Loftipop
455 | From 3 to 50 Wholesale Accounts With a Day Job and a New Baby, Case Study with Sherry Lam, Sherry's Palette
454 | From 75 to 125 Wholesale Accounts including Her First Key Accounts, Case Study with Charina Cabanayan, Orchid & Pine
Quick Hit: What Do I Do If My Wholesale Pitch Isn’t Working?
453 | 2026 Faire Summer Market Recap with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: What Does It Take to Get Into My Dream Store?
452 | Are You Leaving Money on the Table? with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: Why Are Systems So Important to Wholesale Success?
451 | Listening to Customers Without Letting Every Opinion Dictate your Direction with Kirstie Lee, A Jar of Pickles
Quick Hit: Does Cold Mailing Your Products to Retailers Work?
450 | When Your Business Outgrows Its Space: Navigating Storage & Warehouse Options with Samantha Rubenstein, WareSpace & Jodi Kostelnik, The Neighborgoods
Quick Hit: What Are Some of the Biggest Benefits of Exhibiting at Trade Shows?
449 | How to Get Wholesale Reorders From Retailers You Already Have with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: What Makes a Retailer Say No to Buying Your Product?
448 | How Many SKUs Should You Have with Katie Hunt
We're on Summer Break!
Quick Hit: What Does Your Brand Story Have to Do With Wholesale Success?
447 | Embracing Change in Business & What It’s Like to Close Your Retail Shop with Audrey Woollen, Urbanic
Quick Hit: What Should I Do When I’m Not Motivated To Finish The Tasks I Need To Finish?
446 | How To Have a Successful First Wholesale Trade Show with Karen Sawyer-Meehan, Pier Six Press
Quick Hit: Is Selling Wholesale Only For Large, Established Businesses?
445 | What Indie Retailers Want in Their Stores Right Now with Kimberley Yurkiewicz, Measure Twice
Quick Hit: How Can I Gain a More Holistic Understanding of What My DTC & Wholesale Customers Want?
444 | Don't Call It Art with Austin Kleon
Quick Hit: How Do I Differentiate My Products from Everyone Else?
4 Ways To Increase Your Product Profit Margins with Katie Hunt [Replay]
Quick Hit: Do I Really Need Wholesale Terms & Conditions?
443 | How to Confidently Raise Your Prices with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: Where Can I Find Grants to Help Fund My Business?
442 | How Kitsch, Boxfox, and Postable Are Segmenting Their Email Lists with Katie Hunt
Quick Hit: How Can I SEO Optimize My Products on Faire?
441 | How To Protect Your Work as an Artist with Daniel Lachman, Justice for Artists
Quick Hit: Is Following Up When You Don’t Hear Back Annoying?
440 | How to Stop Second Guessing Yourself with Tammie Bennett
Quick Hit: Do I Need An Email List When I Mainly Communicate via Faire
439 | Lessons Learned from 25 Trade Shows in 4 Years with Andrew Fegler, That's So Andrew
Quick Hit: Do Your Customers Need to See Your Products In Person?
438 | How To Decide What Trade Shows To Do With Karen Sawyer-Meehan & Alyson O'Connor
Quick Hit: Do Your Products Need to Be Cohesive?
437 | Why In-Person Retail Markets Still Matter & How To Make The Most of Them with Lib Ramos & Jessie Tyree Jenness
436 | Turning Visibility Into Sales with Kaila Uli, The Bok Agency
435 | Follow Your Art with Katie Johnson and Ilana Griffo, Goodtype
434 | Navigating Pinterest's AI Changes & Tips for E-commerce Brands with Heather Farris, Heather Farris Co
Creating Products That People Actually Want to Buy with Biff Ulm, Nice Enough Stickers [Replay]
This is Strategy with Seth Godin [Replay]
433 | How to Navigate the Seasonality of Retail with Angie Chua, bobo design studio
432 | From 75 to 400+ Wholesale Accounts in 3 Years, Case Study with Ashleigh Evans, InBooze
431 | Growing Wholesale Orders by 400% in Just 5 Months, Case Study with Brianna Reagan, Brianna Reagan Creates
430 | From One-Off Orders to Predictable Wholesale Sales, Case Study with Taylor Carroll, The Stray Shop
429 | Fix the Wholesale Foundation Before You Scale, Case Study with Zeba Parkar, Treleaf
428 | How She Added 200 New Stores in 2.5 Years with Lesa Muehlstein, Birdie Mae Designs
427 | Nurturing Relationships with Key Accounts & Independent Retailers with Kate Murray, Quick Brown Fox Letterpress
426 | Amazon is Listing Brands' Products Without Consent, Angie Chua, bobo design studio
425 | How Doing Trade Shows Landed Her Artwork in Target & HomeGoods with Isabella Montano Ghazarians, Isabella MG
424 | The Reality of Juggling Multiple Business Models with Stephanie Clarke, Dahlia Press
We're on winter break!
423 | Indie Retail Update: Trends, Challenges & How Buyers Are Adapting with Jen Palacio, Tiny Turns Paperie
422 | How Athletic Brewing Doubled Subscriptions — And How You Can Apply It with Katie Hunt
421 | End-of-Year Financial Planning for Product Business Owners with Mary Beth Storjohann, Allora Wealth
420 | Communicating Your Holiday Shipping Deadlines with Katie Hunt
419 | How To Create Your Own Gift Guide and Boost Holiday Sales with Katie Hunt
418 | Expanding into Tabletop Products with Alyson O'Connor, Rust Belt Love
417 | 8 Ways to Prepare for the Holiday Sales Season Now with Katie Hunt
416 | 2025 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales Strategies with Jessica Totillo Coster, eCommerce Badassery
415 | Wholesale vs DTC: Why These Are Different Business Models with Katie Hunt
414 | Depth vs. Breadth: Finding the Right Focus in Your Business with Katie Hunt
413 | Talking Economy, Tariffs, and Customer Retention [Inside Peek into LABs]
412 | Your Wholesale Pitch Isn't The Problem with Katie Hunt
411 | How To Get Better At Selling Your Products In-Person with Karen Sawyer-Meehan, Pier Six Press
How Product Business Owners Can Use Grants to Fund Their Business with Ashley Sutton, Hustle & Hope [Replay]
Utilizing Abandoned Cart Email Automations to Drive Sales with Katie Hunt [Replay]
How to Get Your Products Noticed by Key Buyers with Sally Diguette, Anthropologie [Replay]
410 | How Quickly Will I Make Back My Paper Camp Investment with Katie Hunt
409 | Live from Shoppe Object with Paper Camp Alumni
408 | Live from NY Now with Paper Camp Alumni
407 | Alumni Spotlights: Before & After Paper Camp
406 | From 0 to 60+ Stores Selling Watercolor Kits with Kate Talcott
405 | I Just Got On Faire. Am I Supposed to be Pitching My Products? with Katie Hunt
404 | 5 Things That Paper Camp Scholarship Winners Have in Common with Katie Hunt
403 | Best Wholesale Pitching Practices with Two Shopkeepers, Victoria Venturi & Katie Wilson
402 | 5 Big Mistakes I See in Product Catalogs (and How to Fix Them) with Katie Hunt
401 | Going From 20 to 120 Wholesale Accounts with Carley Hussain, Parcel Island
400 | Celebrating 400 Episodes: Getting Candid About Podcasting, Resilience, and Business Growth with Katie Hunt
We're on Summer Break!