The Maker Growth Blog

Grow your maker business — without the burnout

AI, marketing, pricing, and systems tactics you can put to work this week. Written for makers, not engineers.

My AI Agents Sent a Newsletter to 655 People. Nobody Asked Me.

AI agents in a small business: my autonomous 'AI employees' emailed my whole list twice, unasked. How I caught it, and 5 guardrails every maker should steal.

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How to prompt ChatGPT for your maker business (so it stops giving you wrong answers)

How to prompt ChatGPT for your maker business: why it hands you confident, wrong answers, and the one prompting habit that fixes it for your shop.

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Why your handmade shop isn't showing up on Google (and how to fix it)

Handmade shop not showing up on Google? The real reasons your Etsy or Shopify pages stay invisible, and the fixes you can make this week.

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Personalized desk gifts: the maker's playbook for a printed object people actually buy

Personalized desk gifts pull hundreds of carts, but top sellers skip the one thing buyers pay for. How makers add personalization and price it right.

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The AI stack for a maker business: what you actually need (and what's hype)

The AI stack a maker actually needs, in the order to build it. What pays off, what's hype you can skip, and the foundation that makes AI stop sounding like AI.

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Is hiring a maker coach worth the investment?

Is a maker coach worth it? When coaching pays off, when it's a waste, the red flags, and a lower-risk path between a $3k course and going it alone.

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The 3 AI workflows every maker should set up first

Skip the shiny-object churn. The three AI workflows that pay off fastest for a maker business: listings, launch planning, and customer replies, plus how to wire each one.

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