Time to Pivot

Sorry about missing last week. The high winds we had led to a power outage that ended up stealing my blog time. Today is merely cloudy with rain. There was one day this week with freak weather. It was at least 75F(23.89C), and it felt so good. It's 71 now and falling. Tomorrow it's back in the 50s.

This week was more struggle on the Etsy shop. I've had over 100 visits with no sales. Part of the problem is I have very few products, which was caused by my foray into Adobe stock art. I've had over $3 in sales on that. I've been reevaluating my Etsy store. Right now I have some digital art, posters and mouse pads. Another part of the problem is that people seem to be looking for digital art they can print instead of pre-printed posters. I've decided to pivot and focus on digital art the most and, down the line, maybe exclusively. This week I tried to figure out how to resize images without warping them. It should have been simple, but the application I was using ended up not working in Windows the way it does on a Mac. I spent literally hours online working on a fix that was not to be found. I don't have a Mac and have no interest in getting one even if I could afford it. So, I finally just re-scaled as best I could with Gimp. The warping is slight enough that I think it'll be okay.

Beyond that I was working on my boilerplate sales text for the images and an instruction sheet for customers. It sounds like it would be quick to do, but it never turns out that way in real life. Nevertheless, I'm close to being done, and once I am, I won't have to do it again. I can use the same text and instructions for every digital image in the store. Except the Samsung Frame TV images. I'll need to do a simpler version for that. It's a shame I don't have an affiliate link to that $1,499 product that's on sale for $1,199. Apparently, there's a market for digital art for it. In addition to the seven sizes of digital art for printing, I'll need one for that, too.

It occurred to me only this morning that I might could've used ChatGPT to make an instruction sheet. Hmm. Another struggle has been getting a mockup image for the digital art. It sounds easy, but it didn't work the way it was supposed to. Fortunately, the fix was relatively easy to find.

Have a great weekend.