{"id":39,"date":"2008-09-06T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianegeisel.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/09\/06\/other-artsy-endeavorsand-marketing-tips\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:26:00","slug":"other-artsy-endeavorsand-marketing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/2008\/09\/06\/other-artsy-endeavorsand-marketing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Other &#8220;artsy&#8221; endeavors&#8230;and Marketing tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was rewriting my profile for my Etsy store, I gave some thought to sharing more about myself with my online family and visitors alike. Before my jewelry there was art&#8230; before my 30&#8217;s or 20&#8217;s&#8230;there was art. All my life I have drawn, painted, crocheted, made quilts, tatted, knitted and have tried various other mediums. Of all these, jewelry making is by far my favorite. I love the feeling of taking a mass of beads, gems and wire and making something that someone will proudly wear! There is nothing like hearing the &#8220;ooohh and ahhhs&#8221; of a satisfied customer. <a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK69528oxI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/yLU_82s5eJI\/s1600-h\/room+divider+painting.JPG\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK69528oxI\/AAAAAAAAALg\/yLU_82s5eJI\/s320\/room+divider+painting.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are some other artsy creations&#8230;.My room divider  Photo display ~I painted the rose trellis freehand. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK2Ht8GwSI\/AAAAAAAAALQ\/QsikFIhOhIc\/s1600-h\/Wedding+album.JPG\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK2Ht8GwSI\/AAAAAAAAALQ\/QsikFIhOhIc\/s320\/Wedding+album.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>My Wedding album&#8230; I designed the album and painted each flower on paper individually then cut them out and arranged them on the photo page. Labor intensive&#8230;but I love it!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK3xtw6JWI\/AAAAAAAAALY\/W8CvrKYPgmQ\/s1600-h\/handpainted+goblets.JPG\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_v38FVMN36KY\/SMK3xtw6JWI\/AAAAAAAAALY\/W8CvrKYPgmQ\/s320\/handpainted+goblets.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>And glass painting&#8230; these goblets found a home with my Mom.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Marketing tip:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#cc33cc\"><strong>Never compete on price alone. If you do, there&#8217;ll be no reason for customers to return if a competitor has a better deal. You need to offer added value, whether it&#8217;s a strong guarantee or better customer service, or discounts to repeat customers&#8230; to draw customers permanently into the fold.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was rewriting my profile for my Etsy store, I gave some thought to sharing more about myself with my online family and visitors alike. Before my jewelry there was art&#8230; before my 30&#8217;s or 20&#8217;s&#8230;there was art. All my life I have drawn, painted, crocheted, made quilts, tatted, knitted and have tried various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,85,112,120,139,162,190,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dianegeisel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}