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This is My Passion
Today I want to talk about goals and aspirations. Let’s start with *why* I want to be a full time artist. Doing art full time isn’t about building a business or making money for me. It’s about waking up each day and being *happy* to get to work. I majored in English in college because I didn’t believe that I could sustain a living as an artist. And the more and more I get back into creating, the more I realize that if I keep hustling, I can be an artist. I still love English and editing and proofing, but I...
Why I left Etsy
Etsy started out as an amazing platform for makers to share and sell their creations, but over the last few years, things have been changing in a direction that we makers are finding increasingly difficult to support. Did you know that for every listing we make, we are charged a 20¢ listing fee? And every time someone buys that item and it renews, that’s another 20¢. On top of this, Etsy recently raised their cut to 5% of every sale *with an additional* 5% of every shipping fee.Now Etsy is trying to roll out yet another new change that is...
Pricing & Why it Matters
I made a major change to my shop and my pricing. I knew that I was undercharging for my art, but a close friend pointed out to me yesterday just how much and how they’d been able to sell paintings at 4x higher than what I was charging. I decided it’s time to stop undervaluing myself and my art. It’s time for change. So here’s the thing, under-pricing my art doesn’t just hurt me, it hurts other artists too. If I’m selling my art at a 4th of the price as someone else, it eventually cuts into their sales because some...