A new product experiment in conjunction with another local shopkeeper. He makes small wooden trays, I am hand decorating and we will see how well it varnishes and works as a practical tray. We are not looking at a high cost item but will report back on progress and see how this goes.
Yesterday’s preparations paid off with a welcoming shop that was commented on by a number of visitors today. Here are the decorations with lights on making the place more welcoming. So card sales, a set of markers with follow up art techniques chat offered when pens are given as lives locally. I also offer back …
I received an email today from a customer wanting to buy some of my Christmas cards, great I thought they can use the online shop. Except it wouldn’t let them enter a shipping address. First action was to offer them an alternative way to order so that I could have a look at the website. …
Black Friday for larger retailers (mainly) and a reiteration of how people can buy from me online but also that the shop and I will be ready to welcome visitors again from Wednesday and I can offer a Happy Sales dance – most people scared off by man in hand painted boiler suit and coloured …
Today’s post is about mentioning other artists and crafters and I have also mentioned other independent businesses. But knowing so many people in this field now, choosing is so hard. This is the image I used, not artists with businesses but sharing the love of art and emphasising that art is about fun, therapy. It …
I keep receiving memories on Facebook which link to the start of my art journey under the name AndyKnillArt. So a year later was my first Artisans on the Beach event in Swanage in Hut 54. The photo above shows the stock I had inside the hut plus a card carousel outside. If I compare …
This blog has focused on developing as an artist. There is sometimes some reference to what came before. Today on Facebook memories a post came up from four years ago which I can acknowledge shows just how far I have come in that time. As a teacher for the last few years of my career …
As a human on Planet Earth I have become more familiar in recent years with the new pre-Christmas term of Black Friday where large retailers discount goods to raise their sales. I am a Sole Trader I can not afford to discount on these levels as I don’t have that larger profit margin to start …
This is just a musing post. Obviously, with the second lockdown of the year the shop I share can not open as art can’t be described as essential. So that leaves the dilemma of how do you attract an audience to buy from you when the shop door is closed? This was my first account …
Today saw three aspects of my art business: First I completed the online order from yesterday evening by collecting the greetings cards needed from the shop. They were two from my Christmas card series of Santa over Purbeck and Santa over Dorset All of the above cards are £2 each (£1.80 in November with 10% …