build your profitable product business with mel robbins thelotco business podcast
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thelotco business podcast is dedicated to helping businesses in the fashion, retail and design industries not just survive but also thrive!! It’s a show that brings you tips, tricks and strategies to help you as an entrepreneur start, manage, and grow your creative business.
If you are a small business and feeling stuck on what to do next or how to actually kick start your idea, then tune in for some straightforward, practical business advice as well as interviews with inspiring females in the fashion, beauty and homewares space who will share not just what they do, but also how.
We cover marketing, finance, motivation, mindset and so much more. Walk away inspired to know how to start your own business or take these tips to help you grow and love the business you have now.
For coaching, courses and business advice with me check out link text or come say hi in the DMs on my socials @thelotco I can’t wait to help you guide you on your small business journey!!!
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5 Things Every Promo Email MUST Have (If You Want Sales!)**
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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How Yeseco Used Kickstarter To Build A Brand (special guest Jamie Phillips).
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Getting Stocked Isn’t the Finish Line, It’s the Start Line
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Why Email Is the Secret to Consistent Sales (When Social Isn’t Working Anymore)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Your Product Is Great. Here’s Why It Isn’t Selling
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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The Power of Saying Yes: How One Opportunity Can Change Everything
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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From Beanies to Bestsellers: How Acorn Kids Grew a Seasonal Niche into a Year-Round Brand
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Why Your Product Isn’t the Most Important Part of Your Product Business.
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Perseverance, Passion and Desire To Build A Unique Jewellery Brand- With Vania Truchsess.
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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From First Trade Show Nerves to 6 New Stockists: Inside Mennie Brand’s Melbourne Life & Style Debut (Costs, Leads, Follow-Up Wins + What We’d Do Differently)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Abundance vs Scarcity Mindset: How to Shift and Grow Your Product Sales
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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From Factory to Front Door: The Realities of Freight & Logistics for Product Businesses
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Inside the Trade Show Trenches: What Really Went Down at Recent Australian Trade Shows
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Why Reviews Matter More Than You Think And How to Actually Get Them
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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From Burnout to Bold Moves: How Lucy From Mink and Me Transformed a Rural Retail Store.
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The Unboxing Experience That Keeps Customers Coming Back
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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The 7 Essential Systems Every Profitable Product Business Needs.
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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How Much Does a Trade Show Actually Cost? Mennie Brand’s First Life Instyle Experience
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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When Your Brand Feels Off: The Real Reason You’ve Stopped Showing Up
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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10 Trade Show Mistakes That Are Costing You Sales (And What to Do Instead)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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How to Add a Digital Income Stream to Your Product Biz
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May 30, 2025 |
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5 Reasons Your Brand Identity is Costing You Sales
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May 23, 2025 |
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From Garage to Cult Retail: The Story Behind Natural Supply Co’s 10-Year Evolution.
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May 16, 2025 |
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Contrast Is Queen: The Overlooked Secret to Higher Sales, Scroll-Stopping Brands, and Killer Conversions
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May 09, 2025 |
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Building Credibility and Visibility – A PR Guide with Gloria Chou
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May 01, 2025 |
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Retail, Reimagined: The Story Behind Pre Loved Geelong with Lou Hammer
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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From Sketch to Shelf: The Truth About Product Development with Millie Richards
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Mastering the Messy Middle: Strategies for Business Growth
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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5 Critical Warning Signs You Need a New Marketing Approach
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Overcoming Money Blocks: A Path to Entrepreneurial Success. Guest series episode 5 Carla.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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From Dream to Design: How Kiralee Built Murkani Jewellery into a Global Brand
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Unlocking Business Success: The Power of Mindset with Mandy Napier. Part 3 Guest Speaker Series
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Mastering Wholesale & Retail: Business Lessons from Marmoset Found (Nareen Holloway)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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From Art Teacher to Entrepreneur: The Mary Maker Studio Story Part 1 Guest Series
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Unleash the Power of Email Marketing And Triple Your Sales. Part 4 Series Retail
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Top 10 Things Successful Product-Based Business Owners Do To Win The Game. Retail Series Pt 3.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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10 Reasons Why You Need To Be On Shopify. Retail Series Part 2
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Quick Ways to Boost Your Ecommerce Sales- Retail Series Drop Episode 1
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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5 Things You Must Include In Your Catalogue To Boost Conversion Rate (Part 4- Wholesale Series)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Sales Agent? Good Or Bad For Your Brand When Wholesaling (Part 3 Wholesale Series)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Unlocking Growth: The Power of a Stockist List on Your Website (Part 2 in Series Wholesale Week).
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Getting Ready for Trade Shows- Brand Edition (Part 1 in Wholesale Week Series)
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Retail Perspectives: Essentials Brands Need to Hear.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The 5 Things You Can't Google About Selling Wholesale.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Reflecting on 2024: 10 Questions for Business Growth in 2025.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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How To Make Sales For Your Product Business with Dylan Jahraus (Amazon & Etsy)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Bold, Creative, and Dancing Through Life: Cathy Hamilton’s Artful Journey.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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5 Quick Ways To Maximise Your Sales This Holiday Season.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Triple Your Sales With Email Marketing Mastery (10 Ways To Improve Your Email Marketing)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Cycle Syncing Simplified: Aligning Your Business with Your Energy with Renae Fieck
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Insider Tips to Building a Desirable Brand with Jewelry Expert Tracy Matthews
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Mastering Shopify: Building High-Converting Websites with Anna from House of Cart.
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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10 Essential VM Tips to Boost Sales in Physical Retail Stores
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Creative Journey of Concrete Jellyfish with Rene Skelton
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Don't Make These Mistakes With Facebook Ads (With Special Guest Anna Shipley- Flourish Digital)
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Moving on and the closing of Incy Interiors with Kristy Withers.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Why you need a stockist list on your website!
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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What money blocks are holding you back? With special Guest Clare Wood.
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Mastering your Margins and transforming your business with Joey from Growme.
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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The Highs and Lows of Building a Brand with Mandi from Cubs & Co.
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Understanding Human Design and How it Can Help you Market Your Business with Yvette Mayer.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The 8 Different Product Images You Must Have to Convert Browsers Into Buyers.
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Stop using FB Ads until you understand this. Why your conversion rate and more are so important.
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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How much is your negative self talk impacting your business and mental health? With special guest Dr Ben Robbins.
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Building a Digital Online Business (featuring James Wedmore).
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Branding, Customer Experience, and Scholarships with Stefi Kerby from Celia Loves
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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How to Use Many Chat in Your Product Business with Sam Bright from Ads for Breakfast
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May 30, 2024 |
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What Retailers Wish Brands Knew About Working With Them
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May 23, 2024 |
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Selling the Problem You Solve and 9 more key takeaways from the Ultimate Product Party.
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May 17, 2024 |
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Creating an Intentional Business with Nareen Holloway from Marmoset Found
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Ups and Downs of Building a Product Business with Megan from Second Scout.
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May 02, 2024 |
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Building A Lifestyle Brand with Alex McCabe from Kip&Co
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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4 Email Automations You Must Have in Your Product Business
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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5 Unexpected Perks of Attending Markets.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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How Can Female Entrepreneurs Overcome Money Blocks and Self-Imposed Limitations? With special Guest Carla Townsendfrom Money Mindset Hub
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Kate Pearson from Bella and Lace shares her brand story and her year of saying yes.
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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10 VM Mistakes you should avoid in your Retail store or Market stand.
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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5 Quick Ways You Can Boost Your Website Sales
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Why trade shows? A wrap up of market conditions. And the benefits of attending.
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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3 limiting beliefs holding you back from your wildly successful business.
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Spiritual Business Coach Ashu and adding spirituality, human design and manifestation into your daily business practices.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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10 ways to boost sales this holiday season with different offers you can try.
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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5 things you never knew you needed to know about Wholesale.
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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An inside look at private 1 on 1 Product-based Business Coaching.
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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How to use AI and Automations in your daily business life to save you time and money.
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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How Etsy can be an amazing sales channel for your product business with Monica Little.
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The highs and lows of running and building a Retail store with Lauren Henry from Common Circus.
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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What you should be posting on Instagram to attract new customers!
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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The what, how and why of Email Marketing with Samantha Taylor.
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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How The Little Potion Co made their first Million dollars in sales.
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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4 things to focus your time and energy on in the next 90 days.
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Increase Sales and Profitability with These 10 Website Conversion Hacks.
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Sales channels you need to consider when selling your product.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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What to focus on when business is tough.
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Using AI and good copy to help you increase traffic to your ecommerce store.
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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How to generate $50K months from your product business.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Building a Jewellery brand with purpose. Kiralee from Murkani jewellery shares her journey.
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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"Profit First: Empowering Businesses for Lasting Success!" With special guest Amy Bett.
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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10 essentials to maximise your next Trade Show (Retail and Buyer edition).
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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10 essentials to check off for you next Trade Show (Exhibitor edition)
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Let's start with New York- How Janet and Darrell have built Fox and Fallow into a global brand.
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Supercharge Your Ecommerce Sales: 5 Must-Have Elements for Your Home Page.
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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5 Email Automations you need to bring extra sales into your Ecommerce store.
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Make More Money in Your Business Without Selling Your Soul.
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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What your Instagram content should look like now in 2023!!
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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10 Strategies to Skyrocket Your Email Database.
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May 19, 2023 |
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Building a Multimillion dollar product business with Kelly Walker from Klipsta.
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May 11, 2023 |
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5 Elements to Include in Your Wholesale Catalogue for Maximum Sales.
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Discover the Surprising Business Benefits of Stopping to Smell the Roses.
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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How can working on your Mindset lead to Business Success? Guest Mandy Napier talks on what mindset is and how to get started working on it!!
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The pros and cons of using a Sales Agent for maximising Wholesale Sales.
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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How do you keep your customers coming back for more? Building customer loyalty, increasing your CRR AND LTV are crucial for long term success.
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Why knowing your numbers can help you build a stronger product business.
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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How does an energy reader start a product business? Listen to Donna Wallace from the House of Orion share how she energetically activates jewellery.
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Trade show tips and common mistakes to avoid.
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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6 tools to need to be using in your product business.
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Katherine Mullet from Deadly Wears and Djambies is here to share her story and help you also challenge your unconscious biases.
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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10 things successful product-based business owners do to win the game.
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Bringing the Experience back to Retail. Gemma Ostroburski from @talkshopretail talks tips for how to boost sales with your visual merchandising and adding experience back into store..
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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5 reasons you need a blog on your e-commerce website
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Why you need to be making collaborations part of your 2023 Marketing Strategy, with special guest Jess Ruhfus
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Why you need to add bundles to your website- like now.
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Nikki Parkinson shares her secrets on building a brand and the how she has navigated the Styling you journey.
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Stefi Kerby's brand Celia Loves is sassy, bold, and iconic. She feels like your BFF. Listen to how Stefi creates a magnetic brand and stands out from the pack.
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Want to boost your Wholesale? 5 mistakes you might be making when contacting potential stockists.
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Want to convert more visitors to your website? Check out these 5 essentials every home page needs to bring in more sales.
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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How to get more done. Bec Fing shares her tips and tricks for managing yourself and your time more effectively.
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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10 key essentials to a successful product business.
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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5 key metrics you should be tracking on your Shopify website.
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Kate Toon on how to use SEO and copywriting to build your E-commerce business.
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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How to build a multi-passionate food brand with Renee Wallace -the lead trombone of Birch (Restaurant and Store).
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Brydie Stewart from Mary Maker studio talks all things creative, business and how she is living and building a life that is aligned with her true self.
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Why you need an abandoned cart email sequence! If you sell online this is a must.
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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You Me and Bones - BTS with Waan talking reels, dolls head candles, and why she needs to increase her prices!!
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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How To Have A Truly Successful Retail Business. My interview with Nichole Simms from Creative Visual Solutions.
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Who is your best customer? And why this is so important!
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May 18, 2022 |
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6 Marketing strategies to use in your product business that are not social media!!
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May 10, 2022 |
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How successful brands utilise Email Marketing.
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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What barriers are you putting up to prevent sales?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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7 questions to ask yourself to end the year.
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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10 things to help you build your Email list as a product based business.
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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5 things to do in your business before you start Facebook ads.
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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10 common mistakes brands make when Wholesaling and what to do about them!!
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Have you ever wanted to write a book? Elisabeth has helped launch 3 this year!!
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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What is 3PL and is it right for you? Talking with Deanne Luke about all things distribution and outsourcing that side of your product based business.
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The journey of a Retailer. Jacki from Nest and Burrow talks all things Retail, Buying and how brands should approach buyers to get into stores.
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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4 reasons you need a strong brand identity.
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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My top 5 best places to invest your dollars when starting or growing your product based business.
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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10 reasons you should have a SHOPIFY website.
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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What to do when the trade shows are cancelled!! Brands and Buyers need to be smarter and work together.
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Kaz Morton makes ceramics but please don't pigeonhole her. Listen as Kaz and I chat all about why being bold and taking risks and surrounding yourself with a tribe is so important in business today.
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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An interview with Karina Jambrak. Art, following your passion and the shortest job stint ever!
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May 31, 2021 |
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How to get more eyes 👀 's on your products and stockists for your brand. Without having to cold call!!!
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May 26, 2021 |
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Are REELS necessary? What your Instagram content should include in 2021
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May 07, 2021 |
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The what, why, and how of trade shows! Talking with Flyn Roberts from Life Instyle.
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Marketing and Social Media for your business. Chatting to Jenn Donovan about keeping it simple.
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Chatting all things start ups and running a sustainable business with Katy Reed from Rolla Bottle.
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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What is indent? When do you sell and when do buyers buy?. The what, the when and the how?!!
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Taking your customer on a journey and the importance of customer experience (CX) in building strong brand.
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Creating a business with social impact with Jules Laidlaw from The Clay Society
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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10 reasons you need to be Emailing your customer list (database)!!
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Working for a Global Fashion brand. Jennie Moon from Quay Australia chats all things fashion and business.
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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How to get more traffic to your website! 15 tips to increase visitors to your online store.
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Pip from Jumbled Online talking Retail, Collaborations and the importance of evolving.
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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5 Tools to save you time and money that you need in your business right now!!!
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Essentials when pricing your product. The what, the why and the how!!
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Kayde from Spinifex and Co proves that location is no barrier to starting a fashion brand.
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Chatting all things business and interior design with Bea Lambos from Bea and Co.
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Wholesale 101. Essentials to improve your Wholesale Game.
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Quick hacks to increase your website sales (without facebook ads) !!
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Running a Retail store or Online business? Don't make these mistakes.
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Amy is the Rebel in Charge over at Confetti Rebels, here she shares her approach to running a fashion brand.
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Sep 04, 2020 |