July 2024
So for the first time in a long, long time I'm feeling calm. Hopeful. I've been working hard for the past month to set myself up for success at Anthrocon this coming weekend. I have a boatload of new stickers and decals made along with a bunch of prints large, medium, and small in size along with a new display stand and booklet for people to browse through. I have a bunch of new art in the art show. I have everything I need to get people's attention with material that should hopefully strike their fancy.
I feel good and promising.
I don't know if this will ultimately pan out in the way I want it to, but I know this is more than I've ever offered in the past and so I feel good and proud of the work I've done and I know that it was worth it, and the effort is repeatable and can be expanded upon if it does prove to be a good seller. This is different than the halting efforts I've done in the past for job training exercises because as valid as those were the actual *return* on investment was hypothetical while this is truly measurable. At the end of next weekend I'll actually have money in my pocket for the work I've done and I'll still be able to offer all the remaining stock that didn't sell at the other conventions coming up this summer (four more!). That feels really good especially as it's all additional sales on top of what I expect to do through my normal commissions.
It feels really nice to be able to let my guard and stress down after so long.
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If this pans out the way I hope I intend to set up an online store for these things. Everybody has heard of Etsy but I've been hearing things about them suggesting I might want to consider other alternatives. I already have a Ko-Fi account and I realized you can set up a storefront through them, so that seems like the obvious place to start. Does anyone have any personal observations they could share?
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Struggling to think of something else to type out here. I post so rarely that it feels like I should make my updates here more substantial. Uhhh. Happy 4th if I don't post again before. :D
I feel good and promising.
I don't know if this will ultimately pan out in the way I want it to, but I know this is more than I've ever offered in the past and so I feel good and proud of the work I've done and I know that it was worth it, and the effort is repeatable and can be expanded upon if it does prove to be a good seller. This is different than the halting efforts I've done in the past for job training exercises because as valid as those were the actual *return* on investment was hypothetical while this is truly measurable. At the end of next weekend I'll actually have money in my pocket for the work I've done and I'll still be able to offer all the remaining stock that didn't sell at the other conventions coming up this summer (four more!). That feels really good especially as it's all additional sales on top of what I expect to do through my normal commissions.
It feels really nice to be able to let my guard and stress down after so long.
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If this pans out the way I hope I intend to set up an online store for these things. Everybody has heard of Etsy but I've been hearing things about them suggesting I might want to consider other alternatives. I already have a Ko-Fi account and I realized you can set up a storefront through them, so that seems like the obvious place to start. Does anyone have any personal observations they could share?
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Struggling to think of something else to type out here. I post so rarely that it feels like I should make my updates here more substantial. Uhhh. Happy 4th if I don't post again before. :D