Get your handmade business ready for a bumper Christmas.
Be ready for the Christmas sales you’re hoping for, with a system that helps you manage the workload that comes with them.
End of summer discount
£37 (usually £49)
Available until October 1st
Because Christmas sales come with a lot of work
You want the orders.
You want the commissions.
You want your Christmas markets to be busy and profitable.
You want your online shop to be making lots of sales.
You want your Christmas promotion to bring in more orders.
But then all those sales have to be made, packed, posted and managed.
And at the same time, there are markets to prepare for, commissions to keep on schedule, customers to reply to, materials to order, wholesale orders to fulfil, marketing to do and a hundred other jobs that can’t be forgotten.
When you’re running a handmade business on your own, there’s nobody else keeping track of all of it.
And when you feel like everything needs your attention all at once, you can quickly get overwhelmed and burned out.
Work starts creeping into evenings and family time. You’re sleeping less and answering emails at the dinner table. You feel stressed all the time.
And instead of getting through the work, you end up spending a huge amount of energy just trying to work out what you should be doing next and worrying about what you’ve forgotten.
I built Burnout Free Christmas to solve this problem for my own business, and it can help you to have a great Christmas season, without losing your mind.
“This may sound extreme….. but I do think this is life changing for me! I feel so light, without all of the burdens of a mind trying to keep track of things. I am sleeping better because everything is written down and my mind can rest.”
Jill Nixon, Chickabee Pottery
A ready-made system for the Christmas workload
Burnout Free Christmas is a ready-made system for organising and managing the Christmas workload as a handmade seller.
It’s like a complete hub for running your handmade business at Christmas, built specifically for the way handmade businesses work.
Dashboards, workflows, routines. All simple enough that a disorganised person can use them, and all ready to plug directly into your business.
Everything is built in Trello, a simple task-management tool that’s really visual and actually pretty fun to use. If you’ve never used Trello before, that’s fine, one of the lessons takes you through everything you need to know, step by step. And the whole system works on Trello’s free plan.
What you get
- 10 Short video lessons showing you how the system works and giving you step by step instructions on how to set it up
- 9 ready-made Trello boards covering your projects, weekly tasks, Christmas goals and business resources. Just copy them into your own account and start using them
- Templates for repeating jobs, so you don’t have to work out the process from scratch every time
- Reminders, routines and automations to help keep the system running when things get busy
- A downloadable transcript for every lesson, so you can refer back to the teaching whenever you need to
Spend a couple of hours setting it up now, save yourself hours of work over the busy season, and reuse it every Christmas.
End of summer discount
£37 (usually £49)
Available until October 1st
When you use Burnout Free Christmas, you will be able to…
Get every job out of your head and into a system that tells you when to take care of it.
You’ll capture the things you need to do on your project boards, then move only the tasks that need attention onto your weekly board. Everything else stays out of sight until you need it and you don’t have to spend your time remembering what’s coming up or worrying that you’ve forgotten something.
Break a huge number of tasks down into a workload you can actually handle.
Instead of trying to tackle orders, commissions, admin, marketing and everything else at the same time, the system funnels your tasks down to a small number at a time. So when Christmas gets really busy, you can stop worrying about what to do next and keep things moving.
Make the jobs you do repeatedly easier to get through.
Create instructions, checklists and templates for things like fulfilling commissions or packing orders, so the tired December version of you doesn’t have to remember every step or make the same decisions again.
Keep the information you need with the job you’re doing.
Your postage rates, packaging sizes, wholesale contact information and checklists can all be stored with the relevant task, ready for when you need them. And you can get on with the job, instead of stopping to hunt through your files, inbox or the internet and coming up for air after two hours of doomscrolling.
Keep the sales-generating work going, even when it gets busy.
Your Christmas goals are broken down into specific actions and given a place in the system, with deadlines to stop decisions and tasks being endlessly pushed back. So you can keep working towards things like increasing your website sales or pitching to retailers, even when you get busy.
Build routines and reminders that keep everything on track without relying on your memory.
The system regularly brings tasks back into view when they need your attention, while automations can handle repetitive movements and reminders for you. So you can stop carrying the whole business around in your head, including when you’re supposed to be enjoying time with other people.
What does that make possible?
BeforeYou're answering emails at the dinner table and constantly worrying about what you've forgotten
AfterYou spend an afternoon decorating the tree with your kids, without checking your phone every five minutes
BeforeYou're sick over Christmas ... again
AfterYou get to Christmas Day with enough energy to actually enjoy it
BeforeYou're worried the money isn't enough to get you through the quieter months coming up.
AfterYou make enough money to cover all of the stand fee bills coming due in January, and you didn't have to stop paying yourself to do it.
BeforeYou're disappointed in yourself again because you know you could have done better
AfterYou feel proud of yourself and ready to grow even bigger next year.
It’s not just about getting things done. It’s about having a better quality of life while still making the most of the season.
End of summer discount
£37 (usually £49)
Available until October 1st
About Nicola
I’m Nicola Taylor, founder of Maker’s Business Toolkit.
I’m a business coach for artists and makers, and I created Burnout Free Christmas because I know what it feels like to be the person responsible for every single part of the business when Christmas gets busy.
I originally created this system for myself because I wanted to get through Christmas without pushing myself harder and harder until I was completely exhausted. I was hoping it would make Christmas more manageable, but it actually gave me more time and mental space for everything outside the business too.
That’s why Burnout Free Christmas isn’t a generic productivity system. It’s a system designed around the particular problems that come with running a handmade business through the Christmas selling season.
It’s not designed for people who have a team, or are already organised.
It’s designed for people who are doing this on their own and just about holding it together through a really busy time. Mostly through sacrificing themselves and their wellbeing.
Let’s change that.
What makers say about learning with Nicola
I truly love Nicola’s teaching style. She has an incredible gift.
She really “gets” people, what is holding them back, and has a kind way of helping address what really is going on and guides you to the next step without being overwhelming.
Jill Nixon, Chickabee Pottery
Nicola’s advice is like an MBA at my fingertips.
Apart from the sound business advice, her coaching is excellent. Sometimes I think she’s reading my mind! And then comes the pep talk.
Hilary Garner
Nicola is so knowledgeable, funny, and engaging. Every single topic she addresses provides so much value and is way beyond the time and money invested. You can listen over and over and still learn something new. Not only do I enjoy listening, but I feel like I’ve gained an amazing business mentor.
Stacie, House and Harbor
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I’m not an organised person?
That’s exactly who this is for. You don’t need to be good at organising to use Burnout Free Christmas. That’s what the system is there to help with. The boards give you places to put the work, the routines help you remember what needs doing, and the weekly system helps you focus on what actually needs your attention now.
If you can set a reminder on your phone, you can use this system.
What is Trello, and how easy is it to use?
Trello is a simple task-management tool that’s really visual and actually pretty fun to use. You organise your work into boards and cards, then move things around as you work through them.
You don’t need any previous experience with Trello. One of the lessons takes you through exactly how it works and how to set up your Burnout Free Christmas system.
And you can do everything in the free plan.
Do I have to use Trello or can I use something else?
No. Trello is the tool I’ve used to build Burnout Free Christmas, but the system isn’t dependent on Trello. You can take the principles, routines and ways of organising your work and use them in another tool you already know and like, whether that’s Notion, Asana, ClickUp or even Google Docs.
The advantage of using Trello is that the boards are already built for you, so you can copy them into your own account and get started without having to recreate the system yourself.
Do I need to pay for Trello?
No. The Burnout Free Christmas system works on Trello’s free plan, so you don’t need to pay for any other software to be able to use it.
Will this work for my kind of handmade business?
Burnout Free Christmas will work for any product based business with a single owner or small team. The system can handle online orders, commissions, wholesale orders, Christmas markets and fairs, alongside the marketing, admin and other work that comes with running your business.
What if I don’t have a huge number of Christmas orders?
You don’t need to be running a massive business for this to be useful. The system is designed for the particular problem of being one person responsible for lots of different kinds of work at the same time.
When should I start using it?
As soon as you can. The system is designed to be set up before the Christmas workload becomes overwhelming, so you can get your processes, information and routines in place before you’re relying on them.
But if you’re coming to this late, this system will still save you a lot of time, even if you’re not able to set up all of the different parts of it this year.
If you’re writing a big to-do list every few days, you’ve got time for this.
Will Burnout Free Christmas actually do the work for me?
Wouldn’t that be nice! But, no. You’re still the person making the products, answering the emails and packing the orders.
What it does is give you a system for deciding what you’re doing, keeping track of what’s coming up, making repetitive work easier and reducing the amount you have to hold in your head.
That usually makes the work take a lot less time.
Can I use it again next Christmas?
Yes. The boards are yours to customise and use as your own system. The intention is that you can keep using the system rather than starting from scratch every year.
How long do I have access for?
You have lifetime access. Lifetime access means for the life of the product, not my lifetime or your lifetime. If the product is ever discontinued, you will get at least one month’s notice and the opportunity to download the content.
What’s your refund policy?
As a digital product, Burnout Free Christmas is non refundable, so please make sure it’s the right thing for you before purchasing.
Get Burnout Free Christmas Now
Make the most of your biggest selling season and still have something left for yourself when it's over.
- 10 short video lessons
- 9 ready-made Trello boards
- A system you can reuse every Christmas
End of summer discount
£37 (usually £49)
Available until October 1st
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