I started a small jewelry business earlier this year. I made about 20k in 6 months with very little cost, the margin on my products are really high so it was basically all profit. I only have a few thousand followers on instagram (where I do all my marketing), don’t pay for ads and pretty much do everything through influencer gifting. The only problem with my business was that I was making everything by hand and it was taking forever. I was only able to make 30-60 items per release and they would all sell out in either a day or a day or two. The problem is, it would take me another week or two to make another round and I felt like it wasn't sustainable.So, I took my profit and started meeting with manufacturers and it took a few months but I finally got a ton of new charms, chains, beads, etc. for this new collection. I now have hundreds of items to sell instead of having to stay up all night hand making them in my apartment. I still need to assemble the pieces (like connect the charms to the necklace chain and all that). But I've started to get really in my head about this and really doubting myself. I kinda slowed down on marketing and gifting with influencers for the past month or so because figuring out everything with manufacturing was really time consuming. I feel like I can lose confidence in myself so easily for no reason. I will wake up thinking 'my charms are so ugly no one is going to buy them' and I get so in my head that, even though I've had the new charms for a few weeks, I've barely posted them to my site. I haven't sent out a marketing email. I added a few new items to my website the other day and most of them sold without me even notifying anyone that new stuff was online. I am constantly receiving positive feedback but I have this feeling like it isn't enough and soon enough my business will fail.I KNOW this is a dramatic psychological problem and not a real issue, but I just have to ask if anyone else feels this way or has ever gone through this? Or any advice on how to combat doubting yourself. Its kinda similar to that feeling when you missed a bunch of school because you were sick or something, and there's so much work piled up you're too anxious to even open your computer. I have about a million things to do for this next release, (take new photos of all the new products, organizing my new instagram campaign with a recent photoshoot we did, get packaging ready for the 30+ influencers I'm sending new items too, assemble the charms and the chains, finish the beaded pieces, etc. etc.) the list is so overwhelming my head literally starts to hurt. Sidenote, I'm also in graduate school and in a really intense internship for my field. I need guidance please. thanks. <3 see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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