HRoth - 11:17 am on Aug 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

dpd1, I very much sympathize because I am in a similar position. I can't really expand without hiring someone, but I have tried that and had the same problems as you describe. I worked out way to be a lot more efficient, and that has helped. But I also dumped my wholesale orders. They were way more demanding and capricious than retail orders and I didn't make as much money off what I was creating.

I am trying to tackle this problem by getting rid of anything I sell that doesn't make a significant profit, expanding the things that do, creating a new class of widgets that I can charge a LOT more for (although I don't know yet if people will buy them), and by branching out into other ways of making money, like by writing about what I make.