The Product Boss with Jacqueline Snyder

We are just about 100 days away from the Holiday season, believe it or not! Does that stress you out?

We know the Holidays can be busy and hectic, but 100 days is plenty of time to prepare and make sure you’re ready to crush it in your business—all while still being able to enjoy the Holidays yourself. We’re going to help you pre-plan so that you feel as prepared as you can.

When it comes to getting ready for the Holidays, there are three main things that are important to prepare for:

• Time: We all have a limited amount of time every day; you need to be clear about how much time you want to spend on your business, and how much you want to spend with your family. If you don’t prepare for this beforehand, you’re going to find more time than you’d like going right into your business.
• Scaling: Being busier can mean more work, but not if you scale properly. Going back to the focus on time, you’ll want to figure out how you can get more work done without eating up all of your time.
• Focus: When you’re clear on what you want to accomplish in your business, it becomes easier to make time for those things that really matter.

We go over all of this and more in The Product Boss’ Guide to Getting Holiday-Ready. And best of all: it’s free! If you’re feeling the stress now but you’d rather feel ease when the Holidays arrive, sign up for this exclusive workshop to get prepared for the busiest time of year.

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Resources:

• We’re sharing some of the biggest tips and tricks on how to prepare yourself and your business so you can 2x your sales WITHOUT 2xing your effort. Plus with talks of a down economy, we want to make sure that you feel confident and prepared to push through…no matter what! Then be sure to sign up now for our FREE 3 part workshop series: The Product Boss’ Guide to Getting Holiday Ready and Recession Proofing Your Business!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

There is a path to profit for each product entrepreneur. In this episode, we feature a success story from one of our Multi-Stream Machine students. We hope this episode inspires you and proves you can build and grow your business the way you want to.

When Rachel Dunn struggled to sell her handmade jewelry in 2018 and 2019, she didn’t give up. Instead, she invested in building a support network that could cheer her on as she juggled being a mom with a full-time job. 

Since joining the Multi-Machine Stream commiunity, she found the answers and tools to build her business. Now, she’s hit 1000 orders on Etsy and is growing her sales platforms. Her order requests went up 83% this year, and she is aiming to make $52k next year – and this is her side hustle!

Tune in to get inspired from Rachel and questions we answer from the community.

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Resources:

• Etsy: etsy.com/shop/racheldunnjewelry
• Instagram: @racheldunnjewelry
• We’re sharing some of the biggest tips and tricks on how to prepare yourself and your business so you can 2x your sales WITHOUT 2xing your effort. Plus with talks of a down economy, we want to make sure that you feel confident and prepared to push through…no matter what! Then be sure to sign up now for our FREE 3 part workshop series: The Product Boss’ Guide to Getting Holiday Ready and Recession Proofing Your Business!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

So many Product Bosses out there are working a full-time job in addition to running their product-based business—putting in all of the hours. But we don’t think it’s a stretch to say the goal is to take your side-hustle and make it full-time.

We’re going to share some of the success strategies you can use right now to go from side-hustle to full-time business that students of our Multi-Stream Machine program have used, as well as examples from our own lives.

Our four strategies for going full-time are:

• Knowing how much you need to make to feel comfortable leaving your job,
• setting a timeline for hitting your goals,
• buying back your time with delegation and knowledge acquisition, and
• having a commitment to your goal.

When you put all of these into place, what you get is a realistic plan for achieving your goals, the confidence to get it done, and an attitude that will allow you to take massive action towards making it a reality.

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Resources:

• No idea how to price your products? Just imagine what it would be like if you were 100% CONFIDENT in your pricing and could sell on ANY platform…without losing money or burning out. Pricing Your Products for Profit System is YOUR key to pricing your products correctly for multiple platforms so that you can take what you do from “expensive hobby” to profitable business. Grab Pricing Your Products For Profit System here!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

For this Small Biz Founders episode, Masterminder Sarah Gulfraz comes to us all the way from across the pond—that’s England, FYI—where she runs Peacock Supplies as founder. Peacock Supplies offers party and gift supplies specializing in multicultural and multi faith celebrations. They sell both to stock international retailers, independent stockers around the world and direct to consumer.

It’s pretty common to see Christmas, Easter, and many of the predominant faith-based holidays represented and celebrated throughout the world, but for anyone who falls outside of that religion, they may not see their holidays represented at all—at least not with the same amount of energy and excitement.

We talk about:

• Sarah’s entrepreneurial influences,
• how her early work experiences shaped her for business, and
• where she gets her drive to always be innovating.

Many of the best business ideas come from meeting a need that you have. Sarah wanted to address a problem she noticed when trying to get her kids as invested in her personal holidays as they were with the mainstream ones, and now she provides that to people around the world.

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Resources:

• peacocksupplies.com
• Instagram: @peacocksupplies
• No idea how to price your products? Just imagine what it would be like if you were 100% CONFIDENT in your pricing and could sell on ANY platform…without losing money or burning out. Pricing Your Products for Profit System is YOUR key to pricing your products correctly for multiple platforms so that you can take what you do from “expensive hobby” to profitable business. Grab Pricing Your Products For Profit System here!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

Profit is always an important part of your business. Without it, you may not be running a business at all. And while growth and scaling are great to focus on, when there’s economic uncertainty—and periods of uncertainty are totally normal—profitability is going to take precedence over revenue.

We’re going to share three reasons why profit is more important than anything else right now, including:

• Why increasing profit can be easier than increasing revenue,
• how revenue is about doing more while profitability is about doing more with less, and
• why profit is necessary for making your business sustainable.

We dive into these topics and more while helping you see ways you can look at your business and make more profit without having to work harder. And if you want to be a profitable business, check out our Pricing Your Products for Profit System. We want to help make you a profitable product-based business.

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• No idea how to price your products? Just imagine what it would be like if you were 100% CONFIDENT in your pricing and could sell on ANY platform…without losing money or burning out. Pricing Your Products for Profit System is YOUR key to pricing your products correctly for multiple platforms so that you can take what you do from “expensive hobby” to profitable business. Grab Pricing Your Products For Profit System here!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

Danielle Beauregard is the CEO and founder of Fusion by Design Collars which sells, as she jokingly calls it, “bougie collars for dogs.” They craft high-end leather collars and leashes, many of them custom-made, and embellish them with Austrian crystals, leather carvings, and paint.

She started her business purely by accident. After leaving her comfy corporate IT job to start a business in dog training, she began using her longtime hobby of leathercrafting to make collars for her dogs, and that quickly spread by word of mouth as she fulfilled individual orders until The Virus That Shall Not Be Named hit and service-based industries dried up. She quickly had to pivot into focusing on those dog collars and leveraging her existing network to make that her full-time job.

You’re going to hear Danielle give us the honest details about:

• How to pivot when life circumstances unexpectedly change,
• why you shouldn’t do everything in your business even when you can do everything, and
• being open to new business models as your business grows.

In just over two years, Danielle has turned something she did on the side into over a quarter million dollars in revenue. She got there through acting fast, using the skills she already had, and hiring—even when she felt like she could do everything herself. And now, with the help of the Mastermind, she’s going to take her business to the next level.

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• Learn more at fbdcollars.com
• Facebook: facebook.com/fusionbydesigncollars
• Fan Group: facebook.com/groups/fbdcollars
• Instagram: @fusionbydesigncollars
• No idea how to price your products? Just imagine what it would be like if you were 100% CONFIDENT in your pricing and could sell on ANY platform…without losing money or burning out. Pricing Your Products for Profit System is YOUR key to pricing your products correctly for multiple platforms so that you can take what you do from “expensive hobby” to profitable business. Grab Pricing Your Products For Profit System here!
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

There’s a difference between being a product-based business owner and being a boss. If you sell a product, you can call yourself a business owner. But being the boss of your business, your life, and your destiny comes with building confidence and clarity.

We all have limiting beliefs around our business, and we’re going to tell you exactly what you need to know so that you can gain that confidence and step into your role as the boss of your business:

• Know your customer
• Know your best-sellers
• Know your numbers
• Know your busy seasons
• Know what you’re going to sell and where you’re going to sell it

When you know more and you’re able to plan strategically instead of reacting or instead of doing unfocused work and just hoping to see results, that’s when you step into the role of boss, and that’s where confidence is going to come from. You can’t force yourself to feel confident, but you can do the work to create the circumstances that build confidence.

And if you know someone who needs to step up to being the boss of their business, please share this episode with them and help them out!

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!
• If you’re looking to scale your business to the next level or to 6 figures in annual revenue, then you’ll want to join the waitlist for our course, The Product Biz Accelerator so that you can be notified the next time doors open! Join the waitlist here.
• Want access to over 300 business tools and resources to help you effectively run your product-based business? Grab The Product Boss Resource Guide now!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

In this Small Biz Founders episode, we’re talking to Vana Chupp, the founder and CEO of Vana Chupp Studio and a Product Boss masterminder! Vana Chupp Studio is a lifestyle boutique brand that specializes in custom boutique jewelry made from customers’ photographs and special moments that can be passed down for generations to come.

In this conversation, Vana dives into:

• How she grew her business from an Etsy shop to a namesake business,
• building a business that is personally fulfilling, and
• knowing when to hire—and when to fire—in your business.

Building a team is one of the hardest things to do as an entrepreneur, but also one of the most important for scaling your business. Vana lays it all out in an honest and vulnerable way that is going to give anyone on the fence about hiring, or nervous about firing, the confidence they need to move forward.

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• vanachuppstudio.com
• Instagram: @vanachuppstudio
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!
• Want access to over 300 business tools and resources to help you effectively run your product-based business? Grab The Product Boss Resource Guide now!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

We often feel like social media marketing is wasting our time as we keep spinning our wheels trying to keep up with the algorithm. Who wants to spend any more time dancing on TikTok if it’s not resulting in more sales to our businesses? That’s where today’s guest is going to help us get the most out of social media using strategies that get results!

Derek Videll is the founder of SocialBamboo.com and the host of the Social Bamboo Podcast. He’s going to talk about his unique strategies for Instagram, both organic and paid. He shares the ways we can really use social media to our benefit, especially when it comes to eCommerce.

We totally get that social media can feel like a waste of time, but it definitely doesn’t have to be! If you’re strategic about the way you approach it, you CAN see results in your business. Derek’s advice is sure to help streamline your marketing!

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• socialbamboo.com
• Instagram: @socialbamboo_
• TikTok: @socialbamboo
• FREE Course: How to Build a Following in 90 Days or Less
• Derek’s Social Launch Formula
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!
• Want access to over 300 business tools and resources to help you effectively run your product-based business? Grab The Product Boss Resource Guide now!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss

We’ve talked before about our journey to becoming investors in Lite Pink, a women-led beverage company founded by Lori Harder with a mission of empowering other women and sparking conversations. Now we’re excited to dive further into her story with the woman herself!

She shares her inspiring story. Lori had a small, isolated life growing up—she grew up in a small town, was homeschooled, and had a very restrictive religious upbringing. Once she started branching out she found that it was really hard to make friends, especially quality ones. She knew she was meant for something bigger. And as she pursued that, she realized that there is only so much that you can do by yourself. You need a network, a tribe, to help you in life. That’s where her business started, and that’s at the core of what she does today.

She also talks about:

• Making the most of unexpected delays,
• creating genuine connections, and
• asking for help in building your business.

The biggest message we took away from this conversation is that you are never alone. Whether it’s the struggles you face in your business, the problems you’re trying to solve in your own life, or the message you’re trying to shout out to the world—there are people with you where you’re at that you can create a community around.

Brought to you by the Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge! Commit to making 1 in 5 of your purchases from a small business, whether online or offline. The Shop 1 in 5™ Pledge is a way to make an impact together when (and where) it matters most. Join us and take the pledge today!

Resources:

• loriharder.com
• litepink.com
• Instagram: @loriharder + @drinklitepink
• Invest in Her: Our Journey to Becoming Investors in Lite Pink - Part 1 — The Product Boss
• Need help creating a marketing strategy for the 2022 holiday season that successfully resonates with your customers and gets you loyal customers that actually buy from you? Then grab our 101+ Content Ideas Beyond the Discount: 2022 Holiday Edition to get content ideas for the ENTIRE holiday season!
• Want access to over 300 business tools and resources to help you effectively run your product-based business? Grab The Product Boss Resource Guide now!

Connect:

• Website: theproductboss.com
• Instagram: @theproductboss