Want to start selling your handmade goods online? This article outlines how to start and grow your business using Etsy.

After Doris Kochanek retired in her Ottawa, Canada, suburb, her friends and family convinced her to start an Etsy shop, using her woodworking skills to make walnut candle holders and other housewares.

For years, the U.S. was essentially "an extension of our domestic market," says an Etsy seller in Canada. But now the rules ...