Meet Your Host
Jamela Payne
Success Made Simple: 5 Steps To Repurpose Your Existing Content
Jamela Payne is a seasoned mentor, crafter, and instructor dedicated to empowering creatives, crafters, and small business owners by offering expertise in social media management, digital marketing, and business process automation.
With over a decade of business experience and a proven track record of building successful online ventures, Jamela has developed a comprehensive blueprint that enables busy entrepreneurs to efficiently schedule compelling content and master content inventory management.
Through community building and a deep understanding of craft and digital content creation, Jamela provides valuable insights into pricing strategies and time-saving techniques, ensuring that her Small Business Besties can focus on what they love while continuing to grow.
Here's Where You Can Find Jamela
Meet The Experts
Andrew George
E-Commerce Automation Basics
Andrew George is an e-commerce marketing coach who helps makers, crafters and digital download sellers from across the globe, helping them to build & grow their online businesses without relying on marketplaces, so they can keep their profits and build a business they love.
An award-winning e-commerce business owner, Andrew grew his own business picking up awards including Best Personalized Leisure Accessories Retailer, Gift Store of the Year and Bespoke Gift Store of the Year before transforming his passion and love for business into help others create their own successful businesses.
Carina Gardner
Unlocking Profitable Creativity: A Simple Blueprint For A Design Business
Carina has a Ph.D. in Design from the University of Minnesota and taught there for 5 years before starting her design business.
The Carina Gardner brand has been on dishware, jewelry, prints, clocks, sewing patterns, fabric, and holiday products.
Carina was the Creative Director of Carta Bella Scrapbook papers. Her kids brand Mini Lou has sold products for Nordstrom and over 500 independent retailers.
Carina is the CEO of Design Suite, a design program that teaches designers how to make money as they learn to design. Her Make and Design Podcast teaches aspiring designers how to make the transition from hobbyist to profitable designer.
Christie Love Etter
AI for Creators: Fast-Track Your Digital Product Journey
Christie Love Etter of Etter Creations, is a Digital Product Designer & Online Educator as well as a Canva Creator and Canvassador.
Christie enjoys creating a variety of digital products including templates, printables, courses, and helping new digital creators at any stage of their journey with the skills and tools needed to grow a thriving digital product business.
Cori George
Gentle Hustle: How to Build a Business While Managing Chronic Pain
Learn how to build and manage a successful craft business while navigating the challenges of chronic pain or other health conditions.
This class will explore strategies for prioritizing your well-being, creating flexible workflows, and building a sustainable business that aligns with your needs.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to adapt your current business, this session offers practical tips and encouragement to help you thrive.
Here's Where You Can Find Cori
Corinne Blackstone
How To Use Canva To Create Digital Templates To Sell.
Corinne Blackstone is a lifetime crafter who turned her passion into a YouTube channel to help everyone learn to love crafting and embrace any mistakes.
Corinne makes easy to follow tutorials that go step by step and make everything easy to understand.
She is so excited to see people growing in their craft journey.
Courtney Brickner
Five Products/Apps I Can't Live Without In my Creative Business
Courtney is the owner of The Crafty Brick and can help you take your creative business to the next level.
With almost 5 years of experience and thousands of products sold, she’s learned a thing or two about what it takes to succeed.
From Instagram growth strategies that have helped her reach nearly 40,000 followers, photo and video coaching that will make your products shine, and even pricing tips that will ensure you're getting what you deserve.
Courtney has the tools you need! But she’s not just about business; as a working mom of three, she knows firsthand how crucial it is to maximize your time while wearing a lot of hats. She can definitely help you make your creative business dreams a reality!
Dr. Destini Copp
Building Your Golden Asset: Email Marketing for Craft Business Owners
Dr. Destini Copp is a certified business growth coach for entrepreneurs.
She is the CEO & Founder of several successful online businesses including HobbyScool, Newsletter Profit Club and her own personal brand Destini Copp where she helps digital product creators 10X their revenue.
Dylan Jahraus
The SEO Methods That Drive FREE Traffic Through Etsy
Dylan Jahraus, a seasoned e-commerce entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience, has transformed from corporate e-commerce into scaling e-commerce entrepreneurs.
Her e-commerce acumen fueled an Etsy venture, propelling her shop to over $1M profit within 6.5 years. In 2022, Dylan Jahraus launched the Ultimate Etsy Course, swiftly enrolling 3500+ students. Anchored in authentic e-commerce strategies, this program delivers tangible results.
In 2024, Dylan Jahraus launched etSEO, a SaaS company designed to make SEO optimization accessible to all Etsy sellers. Beyond entrepreneurship, Dylan epitomizes commitment and resilience as a devoted wife and mother.
Eran Bucai [Sponsor]
Pre-sell A Membership To Create Recurring Revenue
Eran is an online entrepreneur who runs a successful membership business with 100s of paying members.
He lives off passive income from affiliate marketing, and specializes in helping people start and grow an online business by eliminating their tech overwhelm and supporting them with getting more efficient and productive using software tools.
Eran is also the CEO and Co-Founder of ConfettiPage.com.
Hailey Rowe
The 4 Marketing Steps to More Sales Without Social Media Overwhelm
Hailey Rowe is a Marketing/Sales Coach, Consultant, & Linkedin Lead Generation Service Provider.
She helps creative entrepreneurs boost sales, get more time back, and build their business without being held back by social media overwhelm.
She shares her F.A.S.T. framework, marketing, and business tips in her Health Coach Nation Podcast (business tips for coaches) & in The Marketing Hub Facebook Group.
Heidi Kundin
Creative Control: A Guide to Manual Mode Photography
Heidi is the founder and creative force behind Happiness is Homemade where she inspires over 10 million readers annually with fun, easy craft projects, free printables, and digital downloads tailored for laser crafting, cutting machines, and sublimation.
As the owner of The Stationery Escape, an Etsy shop dedicated to bookish gifts and goodies, Heidi blends her love for literature with unique creations for fellow book lovers.
Jenny Melrose
The 4 Marketing Steps to More Sales Without Social Media Overwhelm
Jenny is a marketing strategist that helps entrepreneurs better understand their messaging and unique position in the online space.
She combines her passion for teaching with her extensive experience of creating strategic content for online business owners via her website and podcast, Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose as well as her first book Influencer Entrepreneurs: The 4-Step Framework to Building Your Audience, Growing Your Business, and Making More Money Online.
JoDitt Williams
The 4 Marketing Steps to More Sales Without Social Media Overwhelm
JoDitt is an Amazon best-selling author, artist, & designer who educates others on how to create digital products, self-publish books, grow their audience & generate passive income.
Find inspiration and tutorials on her Fruitful Creativity YouTube channel.
Here's Where You Can Find JoDitt
Katy Gelhausen
Designing an Effective Product Launch Plan
Katy is an award-winning brand marketing expert who built and scaled the digital presence of Tito’s Handmade Vodka, fueling its rise to the #1 selling spirit in America.
With a rich background in art history and a lifelong passion for craft, Katy empowers makers and artisans to simplify their marketing so they can spend more time focusing on their craft. Katy specializes in brand strategy and customer-first marketing, equipping fellow creatives with the tools they need to grow their business through sustainable strategies.
Offline, you’ll find Katy sewing or tackling DIY projects to restore her old house.
Krista Miller [Sponsor]
Designing an Effective Product Launch Plan
At Summit in a Box®, Krista helps online business owners replace slow-growth and costly marketing strategies with high-converting virtual summits that lead to record-breaking course, membership, and group program launches.
Her method incorporates highly-targeted positioning and feel-good, engagement-based strategies that lead to higher-than-average conversion rates, true connections, and making a difference through your summit in a way that creates ongoing benefits for months after the event wraps up.
The best part? She makes it easy in her Launch with a Summit Accelerator®! With every strategy, template, script, tutorial, resource, and support element you'd ever need, your summit just got a whole lot easier AND more profitable!
Lindsay Ashworth
How to Avoid Burnout In Your Creative Business.
Lindsay is a handmade party decorations designer, turned digital seller, turned creative business coach.
She teaches women how to use their creatives skills to make passive income online and avoid burnout.
Lucy Kelly
The Bloom F.R.I.E.N.D. Framework
Lucy Kelly is an organic marketing expert for creative businesses with over 20 years of experience in marketing. She is the marketing mastermind behind Bloom by bel monili and founder of The Marketing School for Makers.
Lucy combined her business and marketing expertise with her personal handmade business ownership experience to create her signature approach to brand-building and customer relationship development.
Maruja Bogaard
Build Your Iconic Personal Brand
Maruja is an award-winning recording artist and the CEO of strategic marketing and research agency, The M Strategy Lab.
Having gained invaluable experience building a music career that took her all over the world, and pivoting to build a marketing business that has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, Maruja has leveraged her experience to help creatives and aspiring entrepreneurs build their Personal Brand.
She has built a framework that takes the guesswork out of the process of creating visibility, and achieving success.
Ming Ciao
The Evolution Of Brand Strategy: Adapting To A Rapidly Changing Market
As a recipient of a certificate of recognition for creative achievement by the United States Congress and US Department of Commerce.
Ming Ciao is also a creative strategist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business consultant who has provided business advice for CEOs of several successful start-up companies, entertainment icons, professional athletes, and entrepreneurs - offering consulting from brand strategy and creative direction to personal development.
Nadalie Bardo
How to Create Products that Sell Out With Pinterest
Nadalie Bardo simply LOVES Pinterest. Achieving 1M views on Pinterest since her very first month for her personal development blog, It’s All You Boo, she’s organically grown her email list to 24K subscribers and has sold 1000s of copies of her digital products and courses.
As a Pinterest Coach, she’s helped thousands of blogs, brands, and businesses like yours achieve their goals of more traffic, more subscribers, and more sales.
Over the last 5 years, Nadalie has taught thousands of creators how to market for free on Pinterest.
Pamela Lippitt
Planning A Launch Using Trello
Pamela Lippitt is the Chief Communicator and Owner of The Hill Street Group.
Pam teaches leadership skills through the art of communication to help others succeed.
She helps people maximize their voice, creating confident, savvy leaders. Pam is a public speaker, leads team training and workshops.
Susan Fant Cassity
Done is Better Than Perfect: How You Can Set Yourself and Your Marketing Up for Success in the Coming Year
Dr. Susan Fant Cassity founded The Stress Less Guide to help people take the stress out of business topics like marketing, so they can reach their goals and then go back to doing what they love to do (instead of worrying about the clicks, likes, shares, and all the changes being made to the business world every day).
Susan is the founder of two companies and she created one of the first digital and social media marketing specializations at the Master’s of Marketing level in the USA at the University of Alabama.
Susan completed certifications, courses, and degrees in business, entrepreneurship, education, creative industries, and organizational change and leadership from Birmingham-Southern College, University of St Andrews, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and the University of Southern California.
Tracie Shroyer
Plan Smart, Launch Fast: Effortlessly Plan Your Launch in Record Time
Tracie has been helping business owners set up their tech so they can sell more stuff online since 2016.
From course and membership creators to people who just want to build an email list and set up their first funnel, Tracie has the experience and resources to move people from the overwhelm of wondering what to do next, to the satisfaction of launching products, welcoming customers and making sales.
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