Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Passing out cards

So I've decided that I'll start with the cheapest option first, I have so many busines cards that I'll start passing them out to anybody who will take them. I'll see if I can hang some up in my apartment and find some craft and art stores to post them at. I will post the results in two weeks.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Learning to Etsy: The start

As a relative newb to the Etsy scene I want to jump in with both feet and make the most money I can in the quickest way possible. There are sites everywhere that have suggestions on how to drive traffic to your Etsy site and all of them sound like a good idea, but I want to know what works best. I'm not sure what the right way to test the different suggestions would be, but every two weeks I will try one suggestion and report the results. I will use one week for the suggestion and one week for a buffer, I know it isn't exactly scientific, but it is the closest I can think of today. For each suggestion I will talk about how much time it takes to follow, how easy or hard it is, if there is a change in my traffic, etc. Hopefully this will give other newbs the info they need to pick campains that will work for them.

I have learned something new

So the site I got the original design off of mentioned that they weren't sure if you could use the new aluminum irons to make my kiln and I now have an answer for that:
No, no you can't.

It was a spectacular failure, which doesn't mean it failed spectacularly, or there would have been flames and a fire truck. Instead there was just bubbling melting and splitting aluminum heating elements.

No fear though, I am going to try again when I get back from my trip to Utah which is supposed to happen today, so we can hope. I have to get more ceramic fiber blanket and some donuts and wires. I should be all good to go again. I'm not giving up until I have made my own kiln