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EP 128: How Kristin grew her polymer clay earring business AND added $2K/month in revenue by teaching OTHERS how to make polymer clay earrings

May 23, 2025
How Kristin grew her polymer clay earring business AND added $2K/month in revenue by teaching OTHERS how to make polymer clay earrings

We are kicking off a brand NEW 3-part series specifically for handmade and product-based small business owners who want to creare ANTOHER revenue stream in their business... through digital products.

Our first guest is Kristin from Hillside Studio, a successful polymer clay earring maker who built a thriving handmade earring business — and THEN scaled her expertise by creating an online membership that now brings in an additional $2,000/month, where she teaches others how to make polymer clay earrings themselves.

By the end of this episode, you'll hear:

  • How to know when your handmade business is READY to branch into digital offers
  • The steps Kristin took to create a low-ticket, high-value digital membership
  • How to repurpose your existing knowledge into tutorials, templates, or other digital products
  • The tools Kristin used to build, host, and grow her membership platform
  • How digital products can help you build financial stability beyond physical inventory/physical products
  • Smart, simple ways to market and grow your digital product alongside your handmade business
  • Why teaching your craft can be both profitable and creatively fulfilling


Kristin is a polymer clay artist and handmade business coach. She started her business- Hillside Studio - in a little closet in her basement in 2015. Over the last 10 years, it has grown into more than she could have imagined and now she spends her days creating unique jewelry, filming tutorials and guiding other handmade business owners to thier dream lives.

Ready to create your own digital product revenue stream? Enroll in THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL CEO training with my own coach AND Kristin’s coach who has helped us both create digital products so you, too, can learn what it takes to get started with your own additional revenue stream of digital products.

Click here to listen to this episode of the Product Biz Podcast!

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Great podcast from Monica Little! She talks about the power of integrity, changing your mind-set to get stuff done and being accountable (both personally & professionally). The podcast is geared towards small business owners, but really so much of what Monica explains can be applied to various parts of anyone's life. She articulates so accurately many of the thoughts I have about the challenges of being a small business owner. It's reassuring & comforting to hear Monica break it all down in a comprehensive way in order to overcome the struggles. My favorite take-aways were how she explained that believing in yourself = FREEDOM and "how you do one thing is how you do everything".

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Listing to Monica’s podcasts have been crucial to helping my business grow. Saving me from endless circles of the creative mind, great tips and tricks to make things more efficient. If you own your own product business, I highly recommend joining her program as well as listening to all her podcasts!! πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»Way to go Monica !! ❀️

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I love listening to Monica’s podcast as a handmade small business owner! She offers so many tangible tips within her episodes that have helped me to believe in and grow my small business. Episode 2 was very helpful as she discusses the power of integrity and using a habit tracker. I loved this concept and will begin to use one. I can relate to so many of the stories she tells about running her own handmade business. Thank you Monica for all of these episodes! I cannot wait to listen to more.

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