The light and the dark.
The laminated mini notes for bad parking are some of the most popular items in the shop, so I went ahead and made a few new sets. One features hilarious cute little bunnies saying the darnedest things; the other has greasy sewer rats giving bad parkers what for.
Eeeee! Cute bunnies!
Why did I make these? Well that’s the sort of woman I am…a woman with nothing better to do with her spare time than sit at her computer, quietly trying to squeeze out one more ounce of funny from her pores. Pores that are clogged with flop-sweat from having to be ‘on’ for you people 24/7.
Do you think I am funny all the time? Do you not imagine that I am a sensitive being? That maybe sometimes I like to sit quietly in the forest and contemplate how small we all really are? But I don’t sit quietly in a forest. I sit at my shitty laptop, shouting out half-assed punchlines and clawing at my throat, feeling like I am suffocating out of sheer frustration.
That’s MY LIFE people. And it’s the way it is because of you. You, who never stop to imagine what it’s like to be a one-woman squirrel factory…shoving funny little furry fuckers out of my system like I am some sort of rodent who passes a litter every 35 days, give or take. Like I just scurry into your attic and squeeze out a pack of new babies because YOU ARE TIRED OF THE SAME OLD CARDS. MAYBE I WANT TO STOP HAVING SO MANY BABIES! MAYBE I WANT A CAREER! Maybe I just want to crawl into my closet for a while and cry the hot, salty tears of a clown. Maybe your desperate, clingy neediness has finally broken me.
Leave me. Just leave me.
PS – Don’t forget to check out the custom packs of mini notes!
Read MoreDoin’ it well…LLCoolJ helps you manage it all. Pt 12 from Wry and Ginger.
This is the 12th part in a series of discussions about topics that plague the minds of many Etsians. And when I say “discussion” I mean “Do fries come with that shake?”
Doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well!
LL Cool J. Ah, the ladies, they do love him, and he makes an interesting point with his hot little number.
How do you do it all? And do it well?
You have to make, photograph, post, watch, advertise, promote, and chat. You have to tend to your network, personal website, trunkt portfolio, blog, twitter, facebook, myspace, community group, street team. You have to prepare for meet ups, craft shows, trunks shows and swaps. Come on, get with it! Climb on that endless train of tasks to be done to sell just one more item from your shop! CHOP CHOP! Let’s go!
Mama said knock you out!
Read MoreWhat can Pat Benatar teach you? Pt 11 in Wry and Ginger's School of Rock!
This is the eleventh installment in a series of discussion about doing the biz on Etsy. And when I say “discussion,” I mean “We are young! Heartache to heartache we stand!”
* Wry sometimes uses adult language. OK? OK.
Treat me right!
Well that’s what Pat Benatar said and as far as I know, she’s never been wrong about anything. Love is a battlefield, and we are, in fact, running from the shadows in the night. And while I normally live by the creed set forth in her notable hit “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” – being that I am a tough cookie and I have long history of breaking little hearts, there is one group of folks here that I am always trying to treat right. Yes, yep, you know it…the customers.
It has been well documented here that I am a big proponent of people running their shops as they see fit. What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa. But I do have a few golden rules in my head regarding customer service, and I will admit that when I see the rules broken or bent by others, I flinch a little. So I will share those few rules with you today – take them or leave them. After all, it’s not you I care about jerkface, it’s my customers. Unless, of course, you might like to buy something….then let the kowtowing commence!!
1. Communicate with them.
So first we have the obvious idea that if someone buys something from you, say thanks. Now, how this will happen is an individual thing done in many ways by many different sellers. My way is to send a thank you convo at the time of purchase that gives the projected shipping date. And then you are not going to hear from me again unless I have a problem. I do not send another thank you by way of a special note in the package, but I do send freebies – they are fun and useful items. Some people convo at the time of sale, send another message upon shipping and then pack up special thank you notes. No one way works for everyone but you need to do this in some way. Nothing is worse than being in a shop and making a purchase and having the acned emo clerk with the bad eyeliner job fail to even make eye contact with you, let alone mumble a “thank you’ through their braces. As Pat Benatar rightly pointed out, we live for love.
MAN, SHE IS AWESOME! Is there anything she doesn’t know?
Read MoreLesson Ten: Speaking Clearly. And by that I mean typing.
This is the 10th part is a series of discussion about topics pertinent to Etsy inhabitants.
And when I say “discussion” I mean “she’s your mother, you deal with her!”
Today, let’s talk about communicating effectively with one another in this online environment. Here are some tips I think might help us all communicate better with one another.
1.Type like they taught you in school. When an entire message or thread title is in CAPSLOCK you look, at best, a bit shouty, at worst, somewhat deranged. If you hate having to cap things periodically, like at the start of a sentence, just forget about it all together. The ALL CAPS MESSAGE has roughly the same effect as standing three inches away from the face of a clerk at the pharmacy and screaming for the anti-fungal ointment. It causes nothing but recoil.
Read MoreLesson 9: Raise the Red Flag
This the the ninth part in a series of discussions about topics pertinent to Etsy community members. And when I say “discussion” I mean, “yes, right there…no a bit to the left…to the right…you can be replaced by a back scratcher, you know!”
Raising the Red Flag.
Flagging is the system of user-monitoring employed by Etsy. If you see an item for sale on Etsy that breaks the terms of use (which are available to all and, for most purposes, are quite simple), you can flag it. You click the “report this item to Etsy” and you get a drop down menu to choose a reason for reporting it and a box for comments. Bob’s yer uncle!
It sounds very easy doesn’t it? Well so did income tax the first time someone explained it to me. Really, it is simple, yet somehow it exposes so many other issues with it.
For example…
Read MoreLesson 8 – Boo hoo it's not fair!
This is the 8th part in a series of discussions about topics pertinent to members of the Etsy community. And when I say “discussion” I mean “simmer down, crackie, and listen to my dulcet tones…”
Is this fair??
We often see these words, or at least this sentiment, in the business threads here at Etsy. Perhaps it’s about copying or not being featured on the front page, or what have you, so I thought this would be an interesting topic to delve in to.
But actually it’s not. The answer is, almost 100% of the time, “No.”
No, clearly it’s not fair from your perspective if you feel pissed enough about it to start a thread. And maybe whatever the situation is, it actually isn’t fair.
Life’s not fair. Death’s not fair. Love’s not fair. Business sure as shit is not fair.
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