Hello Everyone, Response required

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…

Energy

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…

Chicago Show

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…

Some Etsy Statistics

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…

Hi Guys

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…

Paid Advertising

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…

Insperation

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…

Here we go

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…

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…

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…