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I've been selling online for over 10 years now on multiple Etsy platforms, Amazon, and now our website, (which you are on right now).  In those years I've received an order from Germany a total of 22 times.  That is an average of just over 2 orders PER YEAR to this country.  Out of 44,000+ sales, if just 22 have come from Germany, it seems that may not be my target market. The last couple weeks my attention was drawn to a concerning Facebook post about parcels that did not get delivered to their destination in Germany.  I filed this away in...

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  Sunday March 22, 2009.  I'm sitting at brunch with my boyfriend (now husband of almost 9 years) enjoying some decent weather and I glance down at my little black flip-phone.  There was no such thing as a cha-ching back then because the Etsy phone app would not be developed for another 2 years. Being the diligent young 20's post-college grad that I was, it seemed like a good time to check my email.  My eye caught an email title I had never seen before.     To Malta. (Italy)I jumped up from the table.  I yelled...loudly.  NO WAY.  I sold something?...

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Reconciling a 1099-K from Etsy using the Payment Sales CSV instead of the orders CSV.  Saves a ton of time!

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1099-k, business topics, etsy, reconciling your 1099-k, record keeping, taxes -

Prepping for taxes, got your 1099-K from Etsy and totally baffled by the numbers?  This blog post dives deep - super deep into the numbers, where they come from, and how to reconcile them.

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Seattle Washington neighborhood map in 3-d, handcrafted in Post Falls, ID by NorthIdahoMade.  Follow on IG @NorthIdahoMade to see more like this.

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