We're Moms Now!

Today we spoke with Marcy Ellis, a local Tucson artist, who has spent years building her business. You can find Marcy's work in shops all around the United States, Canada, and overseas. In this episode of We're Business Owners Now, Marcy shares some of her insights on how to successfully market your business, and create professional connections. She also shares her experience with the struggle of finding her audience, and handling regular rejection, because of her work's focus on female nudity. Marcy gives us so much knowledge and themes to think about as we work to enter markets, find confidence in our work, and a look into the world of wholesaling our pieces.

Join us as we chat with Megan Coy Schwamb of Coy Creative. Megan is a local Tucson artisan who creates polymer clay and resin earrings, and participates in markets just about every single weekend. In this episode Megan shares her insights on creating a low-effort market booth, that is easy to set up often. She also gives us all the details about her experience hiring an employee to help with markets. We also discuss joint of sale, and the beauty of a POS that saves inventory and sales data, and how that helps your business.

As a successful small business owner in Tucson, Arizona, Serena always has an inbox all of DMs from emerging small business owners with questions. Mainly: How do I do it all? So we've decided to create a mini-show within our podcast! "We're Business Owners Now" is a series of podcast episodes created to answer your small business questions.

Episodes will cover topics like:

-Designing your market booth

-Applying for markets and opportunities

-Making social media an effective tool

-Photography, marketing and email lists

Each episode will be a 30 minute interview with a local, Tucson artisan. I'll ask your burning questions, and we'll hear insights, tips and tricks from small business owners who have expertise in the subject.

This Episode:

After 10,000 years episode four is here!

In this episode Serena and Brittney talk about election fatigue, meme culture and TikTok! Brittney shares her experience with COVID and Serena shares a new 2020 read that was exactly what she needed during this time of social isolation.

Book: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. 

This week Serena filled every slot on her planner for the first time in MONTHS and Brittney experienced the humiliation of a toddler tantrum in PUBLIC.  Join us as we discuss public toddler tantrums, planning a pandemic-safe wedding, childbirth, and some fun events in the local business and Tucson art scene!