The Makers University  ·  3-Day Online Workshop

“I wish I could do this full time.” “I just want my hobby to pay for itself.” “I’d love to retire and do this.”

If you’ve said any version of that, you’re closer than you think.

More Than a Hobby is a 3-day online workshop to help you value, share, and sell what you make. Watch each day’s short training whenever it works for you, do one simple task, and bring your questions to live feedback at 6pm CST. You walk into fall ready instead of guessing again.

July 9–11 · Thu, Fri, Sat
Watch anytime · lessons released daily
Live Q&A 6pm CST each day
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One payment. Three days. Six weeks before the fall rush starts.

You don’t need to become a different person to grow a business. You need to start treating what you already make like it has value.

The compliments come easy. “This is gorgeous.” “You should sell these.” “I need one of these.”

But somewhere between the compliments and the bank account, something isn’t adding up.

Maybe you’ve told yourself you’re not really a business owner. Just someone who makes wreaths. Just someone with a hobby that happens to bring in a little extra.

Maybe spending money on a workshop about your own business feels like an indulgence, not an investment. Like something other people do. People with real businesses.

Here’s the truth. You already have a real business. You just haven’t been treating it like one yet, and that’s not a character flaw. Nobody taught you how.

Right now
“I don’t know if people will pay this.”
After this workshop
“My work has value, and I can explain why.”

Fall is six weeks away. It’s your biggest season, and it’s coming whether you’re ready or not. This is where that changes.

More Than a Hobby

The 3-day workshop that helps you stop thinking like a hobbyist and start thinking like the owner of a handmade business, so your work gets valued, shared, and sold before the season that matters most.

Three days. One shift. A different way of thinking by Friday.

Each day builds on the one before it. You’ll leave with something real in hand, not just notes.

Day 1 · Wednesday, July 9

Value Your Work

From “I don’t know if people will pay this” to “my work has value, and I can explain why.”
  • The difference between a hobbyist mindset and a business owner mindset, and why it changes everything downstream
  • What actually makes handmade work valuable to a buyer (it’s not just supplies and time)
  • How to price without apologizing, and why your price is a decision, not an apology
  • How to turn one product into a real offer using a simple 4-part formula
You leave with: one product, repriced with confidence, and the words to explain why it’s worth it.
Day 2 · Thursday, July 10

Share Your Work

From “I don’t know what to say” to “I know exactly how to talk about what I make.”
  • The one sentence that makes everything else easier to write, post, and say out loud
  • Why posting “available now” isn’t marketing, and what a buyer actually needs to see first
  • How to find your message once, so you’re never starting from a blank screen again
  • How to talk to buyers, not just other makers, about what you create
You leave with: your message. The thing you say about your work that makes the right person understand why they want it.
Day 3 · Friday, July 11

Grow Your Work

From “I start over every week” to “I have a simple rhythm I can repeat.”
  • Why consistency comes from a system, not motivation, and what that means for your week
  • How a business owner builds a repeatable rhythm instead of reinventing marketing every time
  • Where tools like AI and Makers Marketing Hub fit in, once you know your message (not before)
  • Your next step: the exact system to run next, whether that’s the Rooted Revenue Plan, Visibility Club, or ChaChing Society
You leave with: a simple weekly rhythm and a clear next step picked specifically for where you are right now.

Is this for you?

Be honest with yourself for a second.

This is for you if

  • You make things people genuinely love, and you know it
  • You’ve underpriced or apologized for your prices more than once
  • You freeze up trying to figure out what to post or say about your work
  • You want to walk into fall with a plan instead of hoping it works out
  • You’re ready to start treating this like the business it already is

This isn’t for you if

  • You’re looking for a design or technique workshop (try Design School instead)
  • You already have your pricing, message, and weekly rhythm dialed in
  • You’re not willing to do the daily task and actually work through this with us

What’s included for $47

Everything you need for the three days, yours from the moment you join.

  • All three day’s trainings, recorded and yours to keep, so you can watch whenever it fits your life.
  • Three live Q&A and feedback sessions, at 6pm CST on July 9, 10, and 11, where you bring your real questions and your actual work.
  • The full workbook, the fillable companion you work through as you go, so you walk away with your pricing, your message, and your weekly plan all in one place.

Save your seat

July 9–11 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday). Watch each day’s training whenever it works for you. The lessons are yours to keep, but the live Q&A and feedback only happen at 6pm CST on those three days, so your seat in those sessions is limited.

At checkout you’ll see a few optional extras you can add to go further. They’re completely optional, only add what feels right for you.

Where should we send everything?A few optional extras below, only if you want them
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$47.00
Add $17 for 90 days of the Price Right app
Yes, add 90 days of access to the Price Right app, the same tool that does the math for you. Enter your costs once and get a profitable price for retail, wholesale, Etsy, and craft shows, with a plain-English explanation of why that number is right. You'll have it through the workshop and all the way through your fall pricing, so you never have to guess on a price again.
Add $9 for the Caption Swipe File
Yes, give me the Caption Swipe File. Dozens of ready-to-personalize posts written in buyer language, the kind that lead with the feeling instead of the supplies. When you sit down to post and your mind goes blank, you'll have a starting line ready to make your own. It's Day 2 put into your hands, so sharing your work gets easier from the very first week.
For additional $37 - Get everything, Price Right app, Caption Swipe File, GPT Prompt Library, and the August 6 Bonus Q&A
Yes, I want all of it. You'll get 90 days of the Price Right app so you never guess on a price again, the Caption Swipe File so you always have a post ready to personalize, and the GPT Prompt Library you can copy into whatever AI you use to write, plan, and run your business. Then on August 6, you'll join a bonus live Q&A, after you've had time to put it all to work, to bring your real questions and get unstuck. Everything you need to keep going long after the three days are over, in one simple yes.
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More Than A Hobby - Want it all1$ 37.00
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This workshop is the start, not the whole thing

By Day 3, you’ll know exactly which path fits where you are. No pressure to pick the wrong one.

If you need

A week-by-week selling planThe Rooted Revenue Plan walks you through selling one everyday product, one week, start to finish.

If you need

Help showing up consistentlyVisibility Club gives you the community and accountability to keep posting without burning out.

If you need

Deeper business supportChaChing Society brings marketing, Etsy strategy, and coaching together so nothing feels scattered.

Questions before you save your seat

What if I can’t make the live Q&A every day?

That’s the beauty of how this is built. The training is recorded and released each day, so you watch it whenever it works for you, early morning, late at night, whenever. The live Q&A and feedback happen at 6pm CST on July 9, 10, and 11. Come to the ones you can. They’re where you get your specific questions answered, but the lessons and tasks are yours to work through on your own schedule.

I’m brand new and barely sell anything yet. Is this still for me?

Yes. This workshop meets you wherever you are right now, whether you’ve sold one thing or a hundred. The shift we’re working on is how you think about your work, not how many sales you’ve already made.

Do I need to know anything about AI or tech tools to keep up?

No. Day 3 introduces simple tools gently, and only after you already have your message and your plan. Nothing here requires a tech background.

How is this different from your design workshops?

Design workshops like Spring Made Simple help you make things with more confidence and skill. This workshop is about the business side, pricing, talking about your work, and showing up consistently, so what you make actually turns into income.

What if I’ve already taken the Rooted Revenue Plan?

This workshop sits one step earlier. Rooted gives you the week-by-week plan for one product. More Than a Hobby helps you build the pricing confidence and message that makes any plan, Rooted or otherwise, actually work. They support each other, they don’t repeat each other.

You came into this as a maker. You’re still a maker.

But what you create has value. What you sell can be talked about with confidence. And your business can grow once you stop treating it like an accident. Fall is six weeks out. Let’s get you ready.

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The Makers University · More Than a Hobby Workshop · July 9–11