[Update] "Advice for monetizing my hobby". I just launched my first business and website!

[Update] "Advice for monetizing my hobby". I just launched my first business and website!

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G'day all, I thought I'd pop by to share my progress. Two weeks ago I came to Reddit for advice. I have a hobby I love doing which is woodworking. Specifically I like to cut out detailed pieces like portraits, logos, characters, landscapes etc, and I've been making pieces as gifts and just for fun for years. Here are a few examples of my work.

Last weekend I said screw it, let's do it (thanks Richard Branson). I sat down in front of the computer, created an account on Shopify and got busy about making a website where I could sell my stuff. The idea is to be able to upload your own photo/image, I convert it to something suitable to be cut, and I get busy in the workshop.

I'm ecstatic to say that I have just finished making my first paid piece! What a fantastic feeling! I have been through many website updates/fixes/improvements over the last few days and that has kept me very busy, but I'm really enjoying it. I have enlisted all my facebook friends to 'like' my facebook page. I've created a facebook ad and I've got a google adwords campaign running. I also created an Instagram account to try to attract followers. So far I'm only spending about $15/day on facebook and google as that's all I can afford at the moment.

I'd really appreciate some feedback about my site, products, pricing, and anything else that would be constructive. Also any advice on building traffic and conversions is always welcome.

Thanks for reading.

EndGrain. Shameless plug for my website.

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Are there any ways of generating traffic to your Amazon listing?

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As title, im looking for more ways of getting more exposure to my Amazon listing. Im open to anything really just as long as it gets results.

Ive heard Instagram and Pinterest are great ways of advertising, so i was wondering if any of you have any more insight into those ventures.

Thank you in advance, deathgod10.

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Duties to pay when importing from China?

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Hi, Can anyone give some guidance on what kind of taxes/duties/etc am I gonna incur if I import (stainless steel bars) from China into the European Union? I have looked online but not sure if like VAT applies to us since we are a manufacturer and we are not selling to the customer but to wholesalers and companies. Greatly appreciate any help to clear this up.

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Business owners who dropship usually do that from China. How do you guys deal with people that aren't pleased and want to return that product?

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For those of you who are currently employed full-time at a "regular" job - how do you hide your business from your boss and coworkers, especially when asked to work over-time or about how your weekend was?

For those of you who are currently employed full-time at a "regular" job - how do you hide your business from your boss and coworkers, especially when asked to work over-time or about how your weekend was?

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Just curious about how other people here handle your boss's (at your full-time job) requests for you to work over-time (knowing it will interfere with your business), or the typical "how was your weekend" questions from the boss/coworkers? My weekends literally consist ENTIRELY of me doing work to build my side businesses, so when my boss abruptly makes a request for me to work some impromptu over-time on a Saturday, or coworkers ask how my weekend was, I am often at a loss of how to handle these questions, since I don't really care to talk about my attempts at building a side business so that I can eventually quit my job! I don't have kids or a big family or social circle, so it's not like I can just say I went to my kids' soccer games the way everyone else at work does. I don't really want to talk about my private life with anyone at work anyway, and especially not with my boss - who is invasive, not my friend, has no business asking what I do outside of work, and who I - quite frankly - can't stand and am desperately trying to escape.

Any advice? I've just been inventing complete bullshit lately to get out of working certain weekends when I know it will be particularly bad for my business, such as lying and saying I have to travel to another state for a relative's wedding. :-/

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