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how do you start your own business how
do you become successful enough to make
a living from that business these are
questions I had when I was growing up
and that I wish I had the answers to so
now I'm sitting down and sharing with
you what I've learned hi beautiful
people it's Courtney I mentioned a few
videos back then I wanted to start
incorporating more business type videos
on this channel and you guys seem to
love the idea so today I'm going to be
talking all about how to start a
successful slime business if you're new
here welcome please make sure to click
that subscribe button I upload three
times a week on Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays and without further ado let's
get into my biggest tips to being a
successful slime shop or just any
business these could apply really well
to you want all your names to be
consistent from your Instagram handle to
your website to your logos you want
people to know who you are in what you
represent but sometimes that's just not
possible for things like Instagram my
shop personally someone stalled the my
slime Shack name so everything else is
consistent my website is my slime shack
my logos are my sign shack everything is
my slime Shack except for my Instagram
and I'm still working on getting that my
actual Instagram handle but what I did
is I did my slime Shack official as the
official Instagram page you can also
substitute this with underscores or
something very similar but you want to
keep the spelling the same sucess what
another thing is to keep readability in
mind and I see this all the time
specifically with slime shops a lot of
times people like to add multiple
letters on the end like 3 s's in a row
or 3 of these in a row or just have
words in their name you're not exactly
sure how to pronounce I would avoid this
at all costs say your username has 3 s's
in it how many people are actually gonna
remember it has 3 s's or maybe it has
two or maybe it was four either way it's
hard to remember it's hard to pronounce
and
it's hard to search and find online your
piggy bank is gonna fill up really quick
and the online world doesn't really
cater for cash so for this video I've
teamed up with an amazing app that I
want to share with you called step and
one of the reasons I love step so much
is not only is it for adults because I
know a lot of you are younger and
wanting to start your own slime shop but
it's for teens and young adults as well
and what's great about the app is it's
on your phone and there are zero fees
no minimum balance no overdraft fees
nothing but not only that they have the
best actually interest rate I have ever
seen among banks they have a 2.5 percent
interest rate which is insanely high
what that means is for every hundred
dollars you're getting two dollars and
fifty cents and they're able to do this
because they are all an app and they
don't have as much overhead as normal
banks which is insane because most banks
are like point zero zero
I feel like ten zero zero zero zero one
percent Interest not really but they are
incredibly incredibly small where you
don't even see a difference now if
you're like Courtney what's the catch
maybe you're a little bit skeptical on
putting your money in apps I have done
that plenty of times and the biggest
thing you want to make sure of which
they are is they are FDIC insured which
is the number one most important thing
to me and I would 100% recommend a
separate account like this for your
business because you want a place to
track all your purchases that you're
making for all your slime supplies or
shipping fees all in one place for tax
time and also you want a place to put
all your money from all the sales that
are coming in so you can really keep
track of your business profits and
expenses and the link for step is going
to be down below in the description box
you're gonna get a dollar for signing up
and I decided to make a little giveaway
out of it so if you download steps send
me a photo on my slime Instagram just
that you download it show it on your
phone show you logged in something but
I'm gonna be choosing 3 winners for all
of you guys who do that and you'll be
receiving a free slime from my shop and
I'm gonna just leave this running till
the end of February so on February 28th
I will announce the winners on my slime
the next thing you're gonna need is
slime supplies now before you go
overboard I would recommend just getting
started with the basics a lot of the
basics and essentials you need to get
started I always have linked below all
of my flying videos so you can check the
description box for some of the things I
personally use but of course you could
shop around I get a lot of things from
Amazon craft stores stuff like that
Walmart has quite a bit of supplies but
start small with it enough supplies to
make a few different types of slime you
don't need to make 15 different types of
slime when you first get started really
nail a couple recipes and get those
ingredients for that I wanted to show
you how small I started before my slime
became overwhelming and I have like a
whole space for my slime shop now but
when I first started out all I had was
this drawer system right here just these
plastic drawers you get from Walmart and
now it literally holds all my paper
supplies for like my printer and stuff
like that but if you watch my old slime
a room tour I literally had everything
in here including my slime collection I
had one slime collection thing in
supplies and then supplies with some
glue bottles on top and that's all I
needed for the longest time then moving
along I needed a little bit more space
so what I did was I went back to Walmart
and got this little bookshelf for the
system and it comes with six cubbies
they also I believe have a nine cubby
one this that now holds my slime
collection and just some like labels and
business cards used to be along with the
other container everything I use to
store all my supplies and slime the
moral of the story is you don't need
gallons and gallons of glue when you're
first starting like this is a low supply
of glue for me now but when I just
started off I would start with like two
maybe three gallons of glue and that was
it and it would last me a while so don't
buy stuff you don't need right away
really nail a couple recipes and just
get the supplies for those in your setup
doesn't have to be extreme find a table
in a storage setup that could go in a
closet or in a corner of your room
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when it comes to listing your photos you
want to make sure you have nice bright
photos that really show what your item
looks like so what I do is I just use a
tripod earring light and make sure I
turn up the brightness if you don't have
a ring light just put it in front of a
window to get nice bright light or edit
it after good photos are gonna help
people click on your products but you
also need them to be able to find your
products pretty much every platform
whether it's Etsy or Shopify or YouTube
they allow you the option to add tags
and what tags are is basically they're
descriptive words that describe your
product and it makes it searchable
whether it's on Etsy or Google all you
want to do is add in descriptive tags
for example if you have a fluffy slide
the tags might be slime fluffy slime
soft slime cheap slime all of these
together are going to give you the best
chance of people finding clicking and
purchasing your products social media is
a great way to get free marketing and
find new customers and new people who
support your brand so stay consistent on
it post a lot and post good quality
content and what I find to be really
important is always interacting with
your followers and your customers
marketing is one of my favorite things
to do for products and probably it's
because I majored in marketing in
college you really want to find fun
innovative ways to market your product
and grow your customer base
things like giveaways and deals are
great options something I found works
really well when you're first starting
off is make sure you have competitive
pricing if your shop has no reviews yet
it's one of the most expensive slimes
or products on Etsy for example people
probably aren't gonna buy them but if
it's one of the cheaper products with no
reviews they might take the chance on
you and buy it until you start getting
some good reviews and good feedback on
your slides from someone I've never
heard of and that pictures aren't great
and they have no
I really have no idea what I'm getting
so more often than not I do not buy
those slimes
so I'm not saying don't make a profit on
your sides you always want to have
profit in mind but you definitely want
to get sales and start building your
reviews before you increase your price
and the biggest thing that I think
people fail on in in all aspects of life
is staying consistent consistency will
bring you results if you post two videos
on Instagram in one week and then you
don't post for another five months
nobody's gonna find you nobody's gonna
be following your products and you
constantly want to be putting out either
material or products or something to
stay engaged with your customers all
right before I in this video I feel like
I could have made this so much longer so
much more in-depth which is what gave me
the idea to create a masterclass for
selling slime it's gonna be about two
hours of content about everything I have
learned from specific supplies and
websites all the nitty-gritty details
that will hopefully answer any other
questions you have this is just like a
general idea that will hopefully help
get you started but I really want to
work on putting together a master class
that I'm aiming to have done by the
beginning of March it's going to have a
ton of video content a ton of material
tons of check lists and things that I
use to run my business personally
whether it's Excel spreadsheets or
checklist and everything in between
I plan on rolling it out for a
promotional period of $50 and then it's
gonna go to $75 and you'll get all the
material included for life I really want
to see your guys's interest let me know
in the comments down below if that's
something that would interest you if you
would consider purchasing it if you
would definitely purchase it please let
me know your feedback really helps but
even more than that please leave
specific details of what you would like
to see in my masterclass and I'll be
sure to include literally everything
that's in my brain regarding slime and
running your slime shop business all
right so that's it for this video I
really hope you guys enjoyed it please
don't forget to download step I'll link
it down below again and don't forget to
send me screenshots to be entered into
my giveaway and as always if you missed
my past few videos you can click on over
here to check it out and I'll talk to
you very soon bye