JUST ME, PLEASE
Here’s me feeling tense after making a single reel for Instagram and creating a single listing on Etsy. Brain is fried now. Thanks.
I often feel like it takes more time to photograph and market the art than it does to actually produce it. It’s such a time suck. But if I want to get my stuff out there, I gotta put in the work.
First, the pictures - oh wait put on some eye make up first so you can be in some. Which black outfit goes best with this watercolor? Oh the black tank top? Perfect!
Get all the shots. Up close. On a wall. Leaning on a wall. Next to a thing. Next to this other thing. I am NO interior designer. One or two with me in them now. Ok fine whatever. Enough shots. Just be done.
Now create the listing on Etsy. Upload thing the things. Write about the things. I don’t know. It’s art. I made a mess while doing it. It was fun. What size is it again? Which words do you want me to use to entice you into buying my art? Are these words good enough? Home decor? Shower gift? Urgh… just SEE > LIKE > BUY or appreciate or continue on your merry way. Thanks for coming.
I feel like my listings and postings need to be welcoming, safe, full of keywords. But that’s not any fun. It gets the job done. It gets clicks I guess. But that’s not me. Maybe I just say the hell with it and just be more myself in my listing descriptions. Maybe that will be entertaining enough to pull the cool people in. I’d buy something that looked cool and the artist had a sense of humor.
I am not fancy purse or foundation (I hate both). I am messy unicorns and rainbows dressed in all black standing in a dark room full of neon signs that has glitter spilled on the floor. Maybe from here on out I’ll just start making descriptions that I want to read and to hell with the crawlers.
