Showing posts with label selling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label selling. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Posting on Etsy


Wow, how exciting to be able to do this myself. It took me several hours but when I was done I was thrilled to hit finish. It only takes my daughter about 10 minutes and someday I will be that fast. Thinking of how to describe your product is the hardest. You have to be able to think of something catchy. When you are always writing about the same thing this gets harder to do. Sure they are different but not always that different. You can cut and paste(which is really cool) or Etsy has a button that says copy. This is real easy but you still have to be careful and read it over. The title is what catches people in the first place and then the description of your product. There is a category next for materials used and then what category you want it listed in and then sub-categories and tags. All these words are becoming familiar now thank goodness. The price is also hard to figure because you can't really count your time, at least not all of it or you might never sell anything. I do it because I love to but some cards take me hours and some just come quickly. The paper and its color influence me a lot on my choices of what to make. All of this great selling opportunity is only twenty cents a posting. Pretty cheap I think. My goal is to list at least one item a day and fill up our shop with at least one hundred choices for our customers. Oh you also get to upload 5 pictures for this price. This is such fun.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

They say I'm eliminated and done but I'm not dead.


I am currently not unemployed but am waiting for the phone call to tell me I am. My job was eliminated last week and I was given a choice to apply for another job within the company so I did. I picked the one closest to my salary and applied and went for an interview. They said they would call and let me know. I have mentally made the decision to become unemployed and follow my dream to create cards and make a success of selling them.
I am not one who talks well to people and I hate selling but in order for this to be a success I have to get over this fear. My mother tried to accomplish this by having my sisters and I tell stories in front of people each month at the library in our home town. Every time I got up there I was petrified. It didn't bother my sisters at all and they all some way or another got into sales. I like being the person behind the scene. I have been reading and learning about promoting yourself and your product. I love my product and think it is unique so selling it should be easy. It is just getting the nerve to do this. My daughter and I are in this together and she is a great go getter. Together we should be able to accomplish this. I now know why artist people have others manage their work. But to get to this point you have to sell.