From HOBBY To YOUTUBE EMPIRE! How Toni Lipsey built A Community-Based Craft Business @YourYouTubeCoach.
From HOBBY To YOUTUBE EMPIRE! How Toni Lipsey built A Community-Based Craft Business  @YourYouTubeCoach.
Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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Where to find Toni!
🎥 YouTube Channel: @TLYarnCrafts
📸 Instagram: instagram.com/tlyarncrafts/?hl=en
✨ Website: tlyarncrafts.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoot26pg0ayfGpObrWS7mG93SgTquVhdUDjWQ75rN_urWadyiw32

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@TLYarnCrafts is a YouTuber with almost 900K YouTube subscribers, talking all things crochet! Toni, the face of TL Yarn Crafts, made a number of strategical business moves that led to her not only having a successful YouTube channel, but having a crochet empire. In this podcast interview, Toni shares those strategical moves that grew the TL Yarn Crafts YouTube channel, what she's doing to stay relevant and in-tune with new, younger audiences, and the importance of women putting themselves out there in spaces like YouTube.

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00:00 TL Yarn Crafts
01:36 When TL Yarn Crafts Became a Business
03:26 When YouTube Came Into the Picture
09:40 When TL Yarn Crafts Became a Full-Time Business
13:15 When She Took Her YouTube Channel Seriously
16:26 TL Yarn Crafts Major Piece Advice
20:00 Finding Her Place with Competition on YouTube
23:30 Adjusting to Post-Pandemic YouTube Changes
29:17 When TL Yarn Crafts Had to Pivot
33:30 TL Yarn Crafts' Posting Schedule
37:05 TL Yarn Crafts' Shorts Audience
40:00 Keeping Crafts Alive on YouTube
45:45 YouTube's Place in TL Yarn Crafts' Business Model
49:50 TL Yarn Crafts Classes
01:00:00 TL Yarn Crafts Memberships
01:07:55 Other Income Streams
01:12:50 TL Yarn Crafts Team
01:20:59 Toni's Vision

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