So after a year+ back on etsy I've decided it's cheaper to just run my own site and I'll probably still have the same amount of sales
Etsy is costing me about $150 a year and I'm selling about $30 more than that.... that's a lot of fees
Which if I have to pay retail or even wholesale for supplies, it's basically $0 profit and the only reason I had any profit this last year is because most of my sales were digital patterns
So now I'm creating yet another website and realizing I have so (1/?)
Much stock I never listed and why are there so many earrings? I have about half of them listed, & all the memory wire bracelets, but none of the regular ones or necklaces.
And I still have like 50 knitted beanies I need to photograph plus other things.
I'm tired just thinking about it too be honest.
I'm also kinda of dreading having to do more self-promotion but maybe that will get easier in time
Today's goal is to finish photographing & listing the earrings. (2/?)
But the good thing is I'm good at working with WordPress so the actual website part is easy and I'm actually looking at all my options my host offers for promoting it that don't cost extra.
I like the look of the site now and I've got what I want. I just have to list all the stuff.
Right now I wish I was rich enough to ship all my stuff to someone & pay them to photograph all of it and write descriptions for the listings.
As for my etsy shop, I'm going to let most of my listings (3/?)
Expire except for a few digital patterns that sell on occasion. It's just not worth it for how much I end up paying in fees.
I also need to work on homework today but I don't want to... lol. This week is the last week of my Bachelor's though so I can't just not do my finals. 😑
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