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Show us your latests and Greatest

I noticed even on the Deviant art site that i monitor that everyone is like exploding in creativity of late. I used to get like 30 new works a day and of late have been getting 200+ new works to lo... Continue

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What is your brand promise?

Ok two or three weeks latter after my last post here i revisted my shop announcement and brand promise with fresh eyes; Always a good thing to do often. Here is my new announcement. I think I may h... Continue

Tagged: marketing, brand, promise

Added a reply 19 hours ago

Project Wonderful invitation

This is a fantastic opportunity to be on a site that is expecting higher traffic for a period of time. I will raise my personal priority to look into this service. Thank you so much for posting thi... Continue

Tagged: passitonplates, project, blog, party, wonderful

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Post great articles here

Here is a link to free on line marketing classes offered by HP the printer computer folks. I have not looked at this series yet, but am looking forward to hearing what a big boy says works. Looks ... Continue

Tagged: how to blog, blogs, articles

Added a post May 9

Sorry I haven't been around lately....

maybe i should do a post on how to keep threads alive :) basically, keep asking questions is the short cut version :)

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How do I sell wholesale to a B&M store?

The worse that can happen is the say no! Approach them as if they are partners with you. You want to get advice from them, you want to offer something exciting. You want to see if there is a fit ... Continue

Tagged: selling, b&m, wholesale, pass it on plates

Added a post May 8

Non-traditional advertising ideas

I have not really started the research on fair value on add rates yet so it is hard for me to do any details. On first blush the add rate of .001 per expected unique view seems like a very reasonab... Continue

Tagged: giveaways, non-traditional, marketing, advertising

Added a post May 8

FAQ.

I just updated the FAQ to use notes and added other information, like how to change picture sizes. Any suggestions for inclusion to the FAQ goes here.

Tagged: faq, help

Added a post May 6

Show us your latests and Greatest

neato!

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Mentions - Thread to list those place that considerations the art of marketing are mentioned

paynesgrey from this group picked up the recent considerations - the art in marketing treasury and mentioned it in her blog post. I am putting this in the Self promotions tips as an example of wha... Continue

Tagged: blog, cross pollination, mentions, cross marketing

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The marketing site I monitor made it on Ning Front page

Well guys - considerations - the art of marketing got picked up as a front page story on Ning. Here is the link to the article. Many of the members got links to articles or work. Pretty fun. I am pretty sure Ning now has over 200,000 social forums, so pretty neat that we got picked up. I

New Earring Loops - Oxidized

I have been working on some findings of late. I added oxidized head pins and about to add some earring wires.

While making these items I figured I might as well try my hand at the every popular earring loops, and I made some earrings that match my toggle clasp line.

The best part about these is that I really honed in my Dark Tribal finish. Dark tribal finish is a combination of techniques and finishes starting with many areas left high polished to satin over printing the oxidized silver. This combination, is really only become available recently do to some new technology. The result is pretty stunning. Many of the items finished this way go from completely dark and oxidized looking to completely high gloss depending on viewing angle. It is pretty neat to be able to capture both dark finishes and shinny in the same body of work.

700 year old pendant

I did this work a while ago but finally got around to putting it on Etsy. I love being able to take something that is so old (800+ years old) and turning it back into art. The ultimate in recycling beauty. This goes way beyond vintage :) 700 - 900 year old Anasazi Native North American Indian Pottery shard in a Sterling Silver, and Fine Silver Mount. This one is probably in the 700 year old range. The potter shards with the finger impressions are the oldest. This piece can be worn anywhere, showers included and are free of charge. :) This is a legally attained piece of pottery. Size 1" diameter (25mm)

This latter pottery shard was created by using finger nails of the artist. The indians used this technique for a while before they figured out how to paint on the clay. This one is thought to be at least 900 years old. Both of these have been listed on my etsy site now.

More of my New Tribal Toggle Clasps and buttons

Here are some more examples of my new product line to my Etsy Site. I am starting to do findings in sterling silver in limited runs. So far I have added clasps, buttons and cuff links. I dont want to overwhelm this blog posting so will only show a few of them here at a time.

here is my etsy site link.

New Tribal Toggle Clasp and Button Line

Hi Guys,

I just added a whole new product line to my Etsy Site. I am starting to do findings in sterling silver in limited runs. So far I have added clasps, buttons and cuff links. I dont want to overwhelm this blog posting so will only show a few of them here at a time.

The clasps were particularly fun to make because there was no waste. Everything that went into making the clasps was used in something. The inside was used to make buttons and cuff links. The outside scrap is being used to make a neat looking neck piece. Pretty cool really given that I had to roll out the metal from a pretty thick ingot to start. For a complete listing of my current findings, check out my Etsy site. If you tell me that you heard about this from Indiepublic when you order, I will through in shipping for free. I do offer quantity discounts. The buttons of this series are not available for individual resale except as part of another work of art. Contact me for your own personal design line, if you want to resale. This button series was designed as a semi exclusive for Artsfarm. Artsfarm sells lots of buttons, and has an incredible selection of vintage items. Her Etsy site is very popular. Check her out.

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About Me:Tell us a little about yourself: I am an Art Jeweler. I create wearable art, sculpture if you will, silver is my media of choice. My work is often strong in metaphors and the mystic. My Art is original. It is art you can wear with your blue jeans on. it is beauty captured in stunning metal forms.

I am the founder of Considerations. I created this space because I figured there were folks like me out there that were new to marketing on the internet but not new to marketing. And I figured new folks could learn from us old timers as well as the other way around. In a past life, I built a six millions dollar a year enterprise, by using magazine, catalog, and direct mail campaigns.

It is became obvious to me from the start that internet marketing is more about community than any other way of going about business in the past. And I love to teach.

View my page on Indiepublic

Primary Sales Website:: spincus.etsy.com

Blog: www.indiepublic.com/profile/Spincus

Additional Websites:: Design Gallery
http://www.trunkt.org/ScottPincusDesign

Talent DataBase
http://thedb.com/ScottPincusDesign

Mixed Media Gallery and all around art playground
http://spincus.deviantart.com/

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it was nice this morning, so nice i forgot to look at the temprature. :) Wow! Here is a link to free on line marketing classes offered by HP the printer computer folks. I thought this was important enough to include it in a blog post. I will put in the the forum also. I… Continue

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments (Add)

The more the merrier

it was 46 degrees here this morning. Lots of shop items This will be a quick post. Due to circumstances, just being pretty busy, I have not been been renwing or listing new items much over the last week. But I have been watching my views with Heart o tron. Strangly, with no new listings, no active forum threads, and no listings in treasuries, my view count has been rising of late. Now there could be other factors causing this rise, the recent changes in how searches are handled on Etsy comes… Continue

Posted on May 8th, 2008 at 9:01am — 5 Comments (Add)

Shipping abused me, and I lived to tell about it

it is 48 degrees outside this morning, and one of those normal low clouds covering the entire sky type of mornings. Bleh. Things I like, a good cup of tea, chocholate in about any way shape or form but cookies are my fav, sunny warm beautiful spring days, my zune mp3 music player and the unlimited music and podcasts I can play on it. Things I do not like, squash, sour candy, shipping problems. Today I have to deal with shipping problems, something we should not ever have to deal with. In my f… Continue

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment (Add)

Cold Calling

today it was 47 degrees out this morning when i went and looked. This means a full day in the shop, and probably an evening! Woot! Todays posting will be the quick version so I can take advantage. So I have a new experiment My take is,things though bad, will get better for the country. It is hard to call a bottom to any recession, but we are defiantly at a local bottom now. But I think this economic down turn woke up some folks, there also is something else in the air namely some sort o… Continue

Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:21am — 1 Comment (Add)

We are changing

this morning it was 44 degrees outside, lots of blue sky, and very beautiful sunshine today. It should be a wonderful springtime day. Inspiration

Todays inspiration comes from Ida of artsfarm. Ida is actively bloging here… Continue

Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 12:07pm — 6 Comments (Add)

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At 5:07pm on May 6th, 2008, BOXC Jewelry said…: oh cool! thank you so much!

At 9:59pm on May 5th, 2008, luckyloulou said…: Scott.... it's Lindy... not lucy

At 3:24am on May 5th, 2008, BOXC Jewelry said…: thanks so much. My hair is all gone! :)

At 9:27pm on May 4th, 2008, luckyloulou said…: Hi Scott!
How are you doing?
Hope all is treating you well.
Love my ring still :)
Have you checked out this site?
http://www.projectwonderful.com
I am using it to bid on sites to advertise on... It is a cool concept..
Currently my advertisement is on another site called SMIDGE! which is a artist community as well... Check it out and let me know what you think...
It has increased traffic to my site but the people who have purchased from me thus far did not find me thru the advertisement.. hummm

At 7:08pm on April 29th, 2008, Stacie Williams said…: Thanks so much for having me- I'm looking forward to looking around. And I found you because I was looking around for some technical info & you were featured on the Ning page. ;-)

At 10:21pm on April 21st, 2008, Cherie Elksong said…: p.s....love your pottery shard pendants!

At 10:20pm on April 21st, 2008, Cherie Elksong said…: Hi Scott, thanks for the welcome...honestly, I've had 'Considerations' in my bookmarks for quite some time...not sure where I found it, probably a link posted in an Etsy forum thread...glad I finally investigated it!
I'm now trying to figure out how to get picture's on my 'wall'!
Thanks again!
Cherie

At 12:33pm on April 13th, 2008, Beth Evans said…: Oh, and by the way, I'm from Seattle, so we're pretty geographically close in the grand scheme of the world.

At 12:32pm on April 13th, 2008, Beth Evans said…: Hmmm. Well, I found out about another Ning network PROpenMic from reading blogs by two instructors at my university. I knew that Ning hosted other social networks as well. I've been doing a lot of online job searches, and through that today I stumbled across a Ning networking for "Off West End". I considered joining but I have pretty eclectic art interests, so I thought I'd check out other art networks on Ning. I didn't like any of those, so I clicked on the "marketing tag," and found Considerations, which is perfect, as it combines my two main professional interests : ) Thanks for adding me as a friend and commenting on my wall. The FAQ are good, too.

At 8:45am on April 10th, 2008, Pam Hawk said…: Hey Scott,
When I found out you have a marketing background, I became an avid reader of your IndiePublic page. It was there that I heard about Considerations. Joining was the next logical step, especially since I'm planning to return to college this fall for a marketing degree. :o)
Thanks for starting this group; I know I'll learn a lot and hope to contribute as well.
Cheers! -pam