Quit Your Day Job
October 13, 2009Sounds like Spam, doesn’t it?
I read the article of the same title in every edition of Etsy’s Storque, and sometimes I shouldn’t. I get frustrated sometimes, because I would LOVE to be able to do that, and “follow my bliss” and make jewellery for a living, and make a good living at it. I wish that I could do every major show, and sell at 25 stores, and work until 2 every night and get up at 9 every morning knowing that if I wanted to, I could take a nap in the middle of the day. My ultimate dream is to be able to make as good a living as I do teaching, selling jewellery. I don’t think it’s totally unrealistic; I think I can do it, with proper planning. I am expanding my customer base all the time by promoting; I try as hard as I can to drive the maximum amount of traffic to my etsy shop, but I really think I need to have my own website too. I want to get to the point where I am busy enough that I can afford to have G on the books as a part time employee so he can do the boring things like packaging and shipping and I can just play with wire and stones and beads all day long…
I really want to practice and refine my viking knit technique: I don’t see many people doing it around here, and that’s really important…finding a niche! If I could get 10 bracelet/earring/pendant sets ready by Oct. 29, I bet I can sell them all. If I get accepted into “Make It!”, my goal is to do $1000 in sales per day. That means I am going to need 1000s of dollars of inventory including lots of bracelets at $50 each…
