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coy
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My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls 4
#27584332 - 12/16/21 11:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've been making "oddities" jewelry in my free time and carving horse teeth into parts of things.... but idk know too get my stuff in front of people. Nowadays you can't just make good stuff, you have to be a tech savvy marketer. Which I'm not and don't have the brain for. Tried etsy... Nothing. Any suggestions? Are there services that will help? Here's some of my work
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Hikeadellic
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: coy]
#27585305 - 12/17/21 06:49 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow your stuff looks cool!
What's the material? Is it bone? Wood?
If you have a decent amount of inventory made up, I would look into local shows / festivals
Should be easy enough to get a little vendor tent set up at a craft / art fair or something similar.
Even if nothing or not much moves its a fun way to spend the day and learn
I've made a lot of friends doing this, its a good way to meet people who know where all the other cool shows are
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Pastfuture
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: Hikeadellic]
#27626246 - 01/20/22 06:59 PM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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Hikeadellic said: Wow your stuff looks cool!
What's the material? Is it bone? Wood?
If you have a decent amount of inventory made up, I would look into local shows / festivals
Should be easy enough to get a little vendor tent set up at a craft / art fair or something similar.
Even if nothing or not much moves its a fun way to spend the day and learn
I've made a lot of friends doing this, its a good way to meet people who know where all the other cool shows are
HORSE TEETH
-------------------- I am not flowstone and you all are donkey shlongs
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Pastfuture
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: coy] 1
#27626249 - 01/20/22 06:59 PM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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How can I get one?
-------------------- I am not flowstone and you all are donkey shlongs
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Enkidu
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: Pastfuture]
#27626265 - 01/20/22 07:09 PM (2 years, 7 days ago) |
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I recommend Instagram and Etsy
You can also try going to local small shops and see if they want to display your stuff
They might want a %
Looks like you're doing some tech savvy marketing right now bro 
Even just making some cards with pics of your stuff and asking if local coffee shops are willing to put them up at the counter or at tables or something
Might find lots of cool people willing to help you out in that respect
Good luck
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Tripsurfer
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: coy]
#27627246 - 01/21/22 02:36 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Make a youtube channel with a "montage style" vid on each item you make.
Use cool titles and include the term "Horse Teeth" in all of them
The fact that you use horseteeth is gimmicky enough for it to take off. Also your next item should be a pipe
-------------------- Ach en wee ben ik de klos, met mijn boog schoot ik een albatros... A philosopher is a person who knows less and less about more and more, until he knows nothing about everything.

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Hikeadellic
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: Tripsurfer]
#27627520 - 01/21/22 06:27 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Second the pipe idea, I used to make pipes out of wood, it is a LOT of fun and people like to buy pipes
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Pastfuture
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: Pastfuture]
#27627566 - 01/21/22 07:11 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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Pastfuture said: How can I get one?
10$ or more raw materials
-------------------- I am not flowstone and you all are donkey shlongs
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Pastfuture
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: coy]
#27627568 - 01/21/22 07:13 PM (2 years, 6 days ago) |
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TheDoubter
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Re: My side gig is flopping, but I think it could work - advice pls [Re: Pastfuture]
#27631256 - 01/24/22 05:03 PM (2 years, 3 days ago) |
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i dont have much advice but i can offer some encouragement. your work looks awesome! i love the mushroom(obviously haha). keep up the good work man!
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 I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together  The believer is happy. The doubter is wise. -Edgar Allan Poe "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." "DMT is half the world." -Terence McKenna Where is my mind? My first heroic dose.
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