The Product Biz Podcast by Monica Little Coaching

If making money was as simple as "doing all the things", most of us would have made it by now. We are all learning, applying, growing, and changing... but that's not the only piece to the puzzle of success. There's a much deeper conversation that needs to be had about BEING in energetic alignment with what we truly want. How come it might feel like you can do the "right&qu...

Here's what most people WON'T tell you or WON'T ever realize for themselves which is what keeps them stuck: When you are READY for more orders… you’ll GET more orders. If it takes 10+ days because you are making everything to order, you don't have enough raw materials so you have to order them, or you just don't have your shit together, well… you're not ready for more...

How many times have you heard "Money doesn't grow on trees", "making money is hard", "making money is stressful", "money is greedy" or any other negative connotation about money? And how many of these stories about money... stem from your childhood? You may not even realize that the stories we have around money actually determine the amount of money we...

In this week's Quick Tip Wednesday, I'm sharing with you the secrets behind what it took to build my first 6-figure year with my small business, Plant Based Beauty. If you are currently struggling to get more sales, or if you are working SO hard to grow your business without the results you expected, then take a listen to this episode to hear about the same exact hurdles that I had to ov...

TikTok is no longer the place for dance moves and lip-synching to music. Instead, it's transformed into a search engine, a specific culture, a way to get in front of new people, and a way for small business owners like you and me to get more sales! The truth is, there's a specific way to use TikTok to get in front of the right people and actually turn those people into customers... and t...

If you aren't seeing the results you want on Faire just yet, THIS might be the exact reason why. Faire is an amazing place to sell your products to other store owners, boutiques and retailers... but there's one common mistake SO many small business owners make that prevents their success on Faire. Tune in to today's episode of Quick Tip Wednesday (an actionable episode that's 1...

Daisy is the owner of Little Buddha, an organic & eco-friendly skincare company, and has grown her business from previously selling at 5-7 different markets per WEEK... to selling at only 2 markets in the ENTIRE last year... and making more money than ever before! She celebrated her first $9K month while also taking weekends off and traveling for over 3 weeks to spend the holidays and beginnin...

We've all said the phrase "I'll be happy when...." and most of us are living in the state of "I'll be happy when I leave my full-time job" or "I'll be happy when my business makes X amount of dollars" or "I'll be happy when XYZ happens"... but how do we find a way to continue to show up while working towards these goals? How do we fi...

We all can relate to the feeling when we KNOW that we HAVE to do something, but we just keep pushing it off. We wait and wait and wait... finding any excuse not to do it. Or, maybe it's not so blatantly obvious, but there's SOMEthing we've been avoiding... saying we are too busy, we don't have enough time, we don't have enough XYZ... when it really might just be another fo...

January and February are notoriously two of the slowest sales month... which can be a really hard punch in the gut for small business owners, especially after an amazing holiday season! In this episode, you'll learn about the ONE platform that is known for actually being a big sales driver in January and February and how you can take advantage of building your business with this platform in m...

When most small business owners think of SEO, they think of daunting, boring, back-end website work that isn't the most exciting... but the truth is, there's more to SEO and when it's done right, it will help you to get your products in front of even more people who are searching on places like Google. Even better, it's NOT boring OR daunting, especially when you learn how to d...

Running a small business is the world's greatest personal development course. It will stretch you in new ways, require you to work on weaknesses and turn them into strengths, force you to face your fears and learn new skills. It's not for the faint of heart. But what if there was an easier way to face our fears to keep growing our business? What if we could understand what stops us from...

Have you ever come across a new product that another small business came out with that caught you off guard because it looked so similar… Only for you to then realize that they copied one of your products almost EXACTLY? Or has another business ever used one of your photos, one of your Instagram posts or something else that you designed or created? In this week's episode of Quick Tip Wednesda...

Have you ever come across a small business with a HUGE amount of followers on Instagram or TikTok that made you wonder to yourself... "What on earth did they DO to get there?!" Or maybe you wonder how they started, how they spend their time, what they share on social media to grow such a big following, and how they turn those followers into customers? Well today, you're in luck - in...

As small business owners, we spend a LOT of our time making inventory, packing orders and dropping them off at the post office. So much time is spent here that we sometimes DON'T have the time to truly work on growing our business. One of the newest ways to build a business that is becoming a HOT topic is Print On Demand. With Print on Demand, you partner with a 3rd party that creates your pr...

In this week's episode of Quick Tip Wednesday, I talk you through how to handle tough customer service situations that are bound to happen to us from time to time - a negative review from a customer who wasn't satisfied with your product, how to handle an item that arrived broken to your customer, and how to handle the dreaded package that was marked "Delivered" but your custom...

Have you ever wondered what it really means to "listen to your intuition"? Or are you currently on a spiritual path, wondering how to take it one step further? In this episode of The Product Biz Podcast, we'll be talking all things Intuition with Jill Foubister. Jill Foubister is an Intuition Coach; she helps women awaken their intuition so they can manifest faster. She is a reiki m...

In this week's episode of Quick Tip Wednesday, we dive into easy ways that are in your power to turn the dreaded 4-star review with no text into a 5-star review AND a loyal customer that comes back for more. If you've gotten a 4-star review on Etsy with no feedback or text in it at all, this episode is for you! If you found this episode helpful, sign up for the FREE Etsy training I'...

Allison Carter and Catherine Hildner were two strangers who connected at a conference, turned into business besties, and a few years later saw a gap in the product-based business space and decided to take action to fill it. In addition to the two businesses they run individually, Allison and Cat are the founders and hosts of Ultimate Product Party (UPP for short!). UPP is a 2-day creative conferen...

Most of us have had situations where we wanted to book a hotel room that looked perfect in the photos and sounded perfect in the description... but we hesitated because there were no customer reviews... so we ended up going back to the search results page to find another option. Can you relate? Well, when you think about your listings on Etsy - are you also missing out on sales from not having eno...

What's the ONE thing that separates your business in a saturated market, allows you to be a HELL YES for your customers to easily get the sale, allows you to build a community of loyal repeat customers and fans, and allows you to actually charge more for your products? Most people think of branding as the logo, colors, and fonts of your business.. but branding is so much more. Branding is wha...

We can all agree that we need energy to be productive and get things done. But we can all relate to times where we felt burned out and exhausted... even after we only worked on our business for an hour, which doesn't take a lot of energy... so where does this burnout come from? Most people struggle with energy management and start their work day with an energy tank that's only half full...

Do you ever feel like you are hitting your head against the wall when you are trying to learn and implement something new for your business... so you decide to push it to the next day? And before you know it, it's been pushed to the next day over... and over... and over again. One of the biggest reasons why we struggle to learn challenging, new skills and continue to push it off is because ou...

Have you noticed that you’re making a good amount of sales and maybe even hitting your highest sales months… but you aren’t making a profit or creating more money in your bank account? Listen to this quick episode of The Product Biz podcast to learn what to do if you’re struggling to make a profit with your small business. When you finish listening, I'd love to hear your biggest takeaway from...

Have you ever wondered why you get views and "favorites" on certain listings on Etsy, but they don't lead to sales? If you're experiencing this with your Etsy shop, listen to this quick episode of The Product Biz podcast to learn 3 hacks for your Etsy description that you can easily implement today to convert those favorites into sales! When you finish listening, I'd love...