Resources
Articles on the arithmetic and the habits behind selling: fees, pricing, tracking sales, setting up a system, and printing. Each one lists its sources.
What an Etsy sale actually nets you
The fees Etsy takes from a digital sale by a US seller, worked through at four prices, with and without an Offsite Ads fee.
Updated , 4 min read
Ledger or monthly totals: two honest ways to track sales by hand
Log every order, or type each storefront's monthly statement. What each method tells you, what it costs, and the one rule that stops a month counting twice.
Updated , 4 min read
Pricing a digital product across more than one storefront
The same file at the same price nets a different amount on each storefront. How to work the price out from the net you want, and what to check first.
Updated , 4 min read
The seven-day setup: how to start a business system without stalling
Setting a new system up in one sitting is how it ends up abandoned. An order that takes one part a day and is useful from day four.
Updated , 4 min read
What buyers of business templates complain about, and what we did about it
We read the written reviews on about 220 paid Notion templates. The same complaints kept coming up. Here is each one, and what our products do about it.
Updated , 5 min read
Printing at the right size: 100%, Letter or A4, and using a tablet
Two settings decide whether a printable comes out the way it was drawn. Which file to print, which scale to choose, and how to use the same PDF on a tablet.
Updated , 2 min read