After a 3 month hiatus I'm finding it very difficult to get organized and back at it. Yesterday I began sorting through my inventory (again) and had to decide which direction I would go. Ebay is tempting because once upon a time I had great success there. But I've never really given Etsy a fair shake so decided to go look at what I was doing "wrong" over there.
My conclusion was that in today's economic hard times my bead prices were just too high. So I slashed the prices of my inventory in the Etsy shop and will be adding more beads over the next few weeks.
In the meantime, I'm rethinking the whole eBay thing. Etsy is so much cheaper when it comes to fees plus my listings are up there for far longer which means a better chance they'll be seen. Both of those are important especially since I've cut my pricing to less than what I once considered wholesale.
My second step will be to do what I've been threatening to do for several years now and that is start making jewelry from my beads. I have all the necessary tools and supplies set aside, tons of magazines and books for inspiration and instruction ... now I just need to DO it.
I'm getting excited again to get back to the torch. I hate it when I don't work. Now that the worst of the winter doldrums is coming to an end and I've pretty much recovered from losing Allie McDog, I'm ready. And with the upcoming Spring holidays I've plenty of ideas to put to the torch, so stay tuned!
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