Hi guys,
I know it has been a while since i posted here. Simply put I got overwhelmed with my new business and had to cut some corners somewhere. My contributions to this forum was one of the areas i could let go for a while.
I have been pretty busy. I have been making some money, I have been learning a ton about the ins and outs of Art marketing, internet marketing and Craft events like farmers markets and shows. It is very time consuming as many of you know. I have been able to pay bills fro…
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Added by Spincus on October 22, 2008 at 8:26am —
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I am not known for being very political. I thought I would take a stand on an issue. The issue is energy. I took an environmental studies course in college in 1978. We talked about how to develop a hydrogen economy then. Little has happened along that front and we are talking 30 years latter. It is time. The economics are ripe for such a development.
Here is a speech given by Joe America. I can not say I totally agree with what he is saying. I am not sure that his economic model will balance ou…
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Added by Spincus on July 8, 2008 at 8:21pm —
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Hi Guys,
Well I finally am catching up some so hopefully I can get a post here soon. I sent off my work to the for the show above. If you are in the area check it out. These are some of the best Art Metal creators I know of and you can check out some of…
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Added by Spincus on June 20, 2008 at 6:14pm —
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It was 53 degrees out this morning. Rainy all night, Sorta nice to be honest.
Etsy Statistics
Here is what Etsy posted recently;
The numbers for May:
• $6.5 million sold here on Etsy last month — 8.3% more than April.
• 449,000 items were sold to make up that sales figure.
• A tiny bit over 730,000 new items were listed.
• 65,200 new buyers and 14,400 new sellers joined the community.
We were very close to 300,000,000 page views for the month (we came in at 298,000,000) and we had o…
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Added by Spincus on June 3, 2008 at 8:05am —
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it was about 50 degrees out here this morning, gray sky, but warm enough for me to be able to get in a ton of shop time that I desperately need. I have 3 outstanding order, and some commision work to do, all cast, and time consuming.
Welcome
This is going to be a lite post. Welcome all of the new members. If the folks here are wondering how come we got a whole bunch of new folks, well, i sorta made a mistake lol. I meant to send out email invitations to our new Team marketing group members, o…
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Added by Spincus on May 22, 2008 at 10:27am —
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it was 53 degrees this morning. woot!
Impressions
It is all about impressions :) There is a thread started in our forums by
Pam Hawk of
Pass it on Plates, discussi…
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Added by Spincus on May 15, 2008 at 8:00am —
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This morning it was 50 degrees outside. It is going to be a nice warm day, even if the sky is full of clouds.
Inspiration
Todays inspiration is brought to you by Kimberly Rogers. Kim and I became friends over on
Indie, w…
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Added by Spincus on May 14, 2008 at 7:25am —
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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…
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Added by Spincus on May 9, 2008 at 11:00am —
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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…
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Added by Spincus on May 8, 2008 at 9:01am —
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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…
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Added by Spincus on May 7, 2008 at 8:30am —
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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…
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Added by Spincus on May 2, 2008 at 10:21am —
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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…
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Added by Spincus on April 30, 2008 at 12:07pm —
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It is 50 degrees out here this morning, lots of big puffy clouds, little blue showing. Sort of a typical morning here this time of year seems like to me, but, and this is a big but it is 50 degrees. That is warm for here; It is spring time here woot!
Todays Inspiration:
Todays in…
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Added by Spincus on April 28, 2008 at 9:26am —
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Well guys - considerations - the art of marketing got picked up as a front page story on Ning. Here is the l
ink 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. It should be interesting to see how many new views this site gets, and how many new members. I will give you an update
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Added by Spincus on April 27, 2008 at 7:30pm —
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Thank you Ida of artsfarm. Ida put as many of us as she could fit into our own
treasury! Stop by the treasury and leave a comment and click on all the pretty things we make. Lets help prompt our shops in this community marketing effort. :)
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Added by Spincus on April 26, 2008 at 7:48am —
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This morning it is 44 degrees here in Seattle. Not to bad lots of blue sky. It probably will get into the mid to high 50's today. This is a good thing;lots of shop time.
Channel Pricing Models
The word channel here referees to all the vendors that exist in any supply chain. It is what the pros call it. So a typical channel would be the manufacture, a manufactures rep, distributor, brick and mortar store, customer. This is typical, but can often be modified depending on the product. Typi…
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Added by Spincus on April 24, 2008 at 8:37am —
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it is 39 degrees out here this morning, the sun is not up so I can not see if the sky is blue or not. Is it every going to get to be springtime and warm up? Daytime temperature has been getting up to the higher 40's so I am getting some extended shop time in. :)
Treasuries and Front Pages
I made it on to three different treasuries at the same time. I was pretty amazed by that. There were only 28 active treasuries pages at the time so I am represented on about 10% of all pages for treas…
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Added by Spincus on April 22, 2008 at 6:36am —
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it is 40 degrees here this morning.
Lite and easy.
Todays post is lite and easy. I had a pretty big post planned for this week. I was very excited about it but murphys law came into play and caused a postponement. It thought I was going to announce that i had my first profitable 30 day period of time, this after only 2 months.
I had a commitment for an order verbal and in emails, but at the last minute the customer ran into a higher priority financial need. So her order got put off a w…
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Added by Spincus on April 19, 2008 at 9:00am —
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it was 40 degrees this morning and overcast.
Keeping track
For those of you that kept up with EtysTools, you probably were pretty bummed when it went off line. I know I was. It is such a pain to try and figure out Item hearts from Etsy. Etsy needs some marketing information badly. Really badly. It is pretty sad even. In any case the best part of EtysTools was the Heart oh matic. The rest of EtsyTools was a look at it once and say interesting and move on. But heart oh matic (HOM) was som…
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Added by Spincus on April 16, 2008 at 11:36am —
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It is 44 degrees here this morning and overcast. The other day it got up to 60, way nice. It is funny, being a San Diego boy, i never thought I would consider 60 to be a warm day. Guess I am getting used to the Pac NW.
If you are a regular follower of my blog and are in my friends group, you will want to visit my blog home page on considerations. There are several posts that I have listed as private that only…
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Added by Spincus on April 14, 2008 at 8:30am —
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