It has been a few months since I have posted on this site. I am learning tons about how difficult it is to be a salesman. I continue to read and increase my knowledge about business, but it is incredibly difficult. I have discovered about myself that I have the drive to create, but the drive to sell is not so strong. I believe that having my items on Etsy.com and Artfire.com almost became a crutch for me. It's easy to think that because my items are listed on a website I can lay low, continue to build my inventory and someone will stumble along and buy something. I now know that this is not true. It is a huge market out there. If you do an internet search, or even an Etsy search for "elephant toy" my items never even show up. There are hundreds of listings. I have handed out my business cards to friends and they have told me that it is difficult to find my shop. If my own friends can't find my shop, how can I expect that someone will randomly stumble upon what I have made and buy it? I need to do more and now is the time.
I think that I now have enough items that I can truly start my own shop on this website. I will still refer to Etsy.com for now as I build my knowledge of running a website. I have discovered that I can put a link for PayPal right on my webpage and apparently it is super easy! Before I do that, however, I need to create a document for myself that will keep track of all of my orders. This is something that the other websites provide for you, so you don't have to keep track on your own. I think I am ready to do this on my own. I want my site to be easy to find. I want to be known by name. I want word to pass on that when I am asked to make a custom design I always create an incredible piece of artwork. I will put my all into your item, and it won't have the cold depersonalization of an item from a store. You will know what materials I used and what the process was like. This is my vision for my store.
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