It's been a crazy week, with car troubles, website dilemnas and figuring out how to do the paypal code for the paypal buttons. It seems like such a struggle when you don't know how to do something.
In creating my websites over the last year, I kind of had to figure things out all over again more than several times and here I go trying to figure it out again.
But now I am excited about have my paper dolls for sale on several blogs. I never thought of selling them on blogs, but it seems like everyone is selling stuff on their blogs, so it seems like a good way to go.
I felt bad for not getting back to writing on my blogs. My car troubles seemed to get the best of me last week.
But, I am back writing today and hope to continue and keep it up. Yet, now one of my projects that is going to take over is getting all my paypal buttons for my paper dolls in the right spot on my blogs where I am going to sell them. Or hoping to sell them. I have to face the fact that they are a specialized thing and it targets young girls and women.
I was told quite a few years ago at a craft show, that they are very popular in Europe. And when I am selling my old vintage and reproduction paper doll sets on Ebay they seem to be very popular. You never know until you try.
When we want our small business to start up we want to try everything under the sun to make it work. We look at other people selling their stuff and we wonder how they do it. We do have to do a lot of research and try to come up with ways that are going to work for us.
And we sure seem to get doors shut in our face as we try to establish ourselves. So far I haven't had very good luck with my photography. I tried a local ad with Seven Days which did nothing for me. I got business cards and put them in wedding shops, florist shops and any place I thought would attract people. Nothing seemed to work. I tried Marketingtool.com advertising last year.
In the beginning, I got scammed by some modelling company called Hollywood Auditions. I paid them $300 for putting an ad for me on their website and they were going to send me 130 to 150 clients to me each month. All people that needed headshots (actors, actresses, musicians...) After a week or a little more, they gave me the client list with addresses and phone numbers.
I started calling them and all of them didn't seem to know what I was talking about and none of them of course needed my services. And then the modelling company wouldn't give me my money back. I reported them to the Better Business Bureau.
And I am choosing not to continue my ad with Marketingtool.com next month. I did manage to get two to three jobs through them over the summer and fall. One wedding, one boudoir session and a barmitzfah. And since fall time all I have been getting is inquiries and then no jobs. So it seems like I don't want to sink the money into it.
Maybe I just need to set up a blog for my photography services. That probably would be the way to go and see if anything happens from that.
And I know the Paper Doll project is going to take some time to get it set up right but worth it in the end.
And then, I have been coming up with more projects that are going to take up my time.
I've been selling stuff on Ebay. I have been discovering that repainted dolls are big on Ebay, and I am going to give it a try. I'm going to start out with cheapo Barbies and see how things look after I am done. I think the eyes are going to be the hard part as they are so small and I'm not used to painting on a Barbie. Have been finding a bunch of the girls barbies that they don't play with anymore.
I'm not going to take all the faces off until I know I can do it and make them look good. I did figure out how to dye their hair. That was fun. I took the acryllic paint, got the hair color I wanted and then combed it through the doll's hair. And then I had fun cutting a few of the doll's hair to get a new do. I think when you go to curl their hair, you wrap it around a straw or use a bobby pin and then you boil it. Different. It must be because it is doll hair.
For us, we just go buy the hair spray or the hair gel or mousse, but it probably wouldn't work the same way for the dolls.
If you ever go to ebay and look up repaint dolls, some of them are absolutely gorgeous! Too rich for my pocket. Some of them are repainting the Gene dolls, Tonner dolls, and the Monster High dolls and maybe pocketing a few hundred dollars or more for their work. The eye painting is incredible.
One person had a Monster High doll redone with a gorgeous rose in her hair and pretty outfit.
Which brings me to my other projects. Doll clothing. I am going to learn how to make some of the dresses and other outfits. Which not only brings me to creating the sewn ones but the knitted ones.
And then with the knitting, once I get a basic pattern, I should be able to create my own patterns for the dolls. I used to knit all the time quite a few years ago, and I dabbled in making my own sweater patterns and other patterns.
Friends would often say, "What is that?" They wouldn't know what it was and I would explain, "It's a bag. It's a burp cloth. It's a sweater. It's a bandana. It's a headband. ETC..."
I've always been one to come up with my own creations. Tried to think of clever things to sell at the craft shows.
And suddenly I have another idea of other things I would like to try selling on Ebay and my blogs. I'm going to attempt to sew up some aprons on my sewing machine and the doll clothing and my cute little pincushions and then see if I can sell them on Ebay. Over the last few weekends, I've been making these cute little yo yo pincushions. If not on Ebay, I will try them at a craft show later this year. Or maybe on my blog.
That would have to be different than the paper dolls as I would probably only have a certain amount of each thing. I would probably just have to go in and change the pictures once something is out of stock.
I am hand sewing the pincushions, but I think I will need to machine sew the outfits for the dolls to make them look more professional looking. And the aprons.
So now I have a bunch of doll patterns for the outfits and even one to make ragdolls. Good lord, there's another project. I saw another woman's site where she had handsewn the doll (a topsy turvy doll). She had gessoed it and then painted on her with acryllics and it looked really good. I got thinking, I could probably paint a good face.
I did a dress once of my paperdoll Julia. My daughter. I created the dress, which I never completely finished and I drew the outline of my paperdoll on the fabric. We still have it kicking around the kids house, but the shoulders of the dress aren't completed. I did the same thing and made a fabric doll face and drew on it with a black fine tip marker. It came out neat, but I never did a body for her.
I think as crafters, we all try to come up with a product that people are going to love. But first of all, I think we have to love what we do first. That is the important thing. And then we need to try to find a niche for it and make it work.
We all would love to start up a small business crafting what we love and providing it to an audience of collectors who are going to love our quality products.
It can be very hard and daunting to try to find our outlet for it. It takes a lot of trial and error and I have also heard a lot of advertising to get it off the ground.
And the hard fact is that many of us don't have the money to put our business where we want it. Established, growing and profiting. For some of us it takes years to get something off the ground. I was told that I have a unique thing with my paper dolls, but getting it off the ground and promoting them is another matter. And as entreprenuers and business owners and all of us that would ultimately like to be working for ourselves and be our own boss, we realize that it takes alot of time for something to grow and prosper.
It takes a tremendous amount of patience and effort to make it work. But what we strive for is to grab hold of the moon and let our dreams take root and become something that we can be really proud of.
I've always been a person that tries really hard to make a success of something, yet it has been a hard road to figure out what works and what doesn't work. It doesn't come easy.
And most people will say that it doesn't happen overnight.
Well, perhaps it does for some people. Some people just have the luck of coming up with the perfect product that everyone is going to be wanting.
And another thing, it is so much easier for a celebrity to come up with a product and promote their fragrance line, clothing line, handbags, write a book, or anything else. They are already famous and people flock to the products because they are a celebrity.
It comes a lot harder to the regular average Joe, Dick, Harry, or Jane, Lesley and Rita.
And then there is Tom, Dick and Harry, but that should be a post for all of us women. I think we have all met our own Tom, Dick or Harry in our lives. And some of them all seem to be Dick. Ha ha.
I wonder what the name would be to men. Dickina?
Jennifer Jo Fay
Copyrighted February 15, 2012
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I guess I have created some very full plates for myself.
My really fun thought with the sewing. I've drummed up a cute christmas gift for my daughters, neices, two of the little sisters that wait with my girls at the bus stop and my friend's daughter.
I'm going to make a cute yo yo pincushion for each of them, buy some needles, a measuring tape, thimble, stitch ripper and a few other little sewing neccessities. Then I think I will make a cute fabric bag to put it in, along with some yo yo circles so they can practice making them. And then I think I will cut one or two American Girl Dress patterns and they can practice sewing them together. Kids like to make fun little things.
I know I did when I was their age. It all started with making a Shawn Cassiddy Doll.
These two are my most provocative Paper Dolls. I think Pretty Kitty (this one on the bottom) has an extra page somewhere that I haven't completed. I think it is one where she is all tied up!!!
Marla Mermaid paper doll is the one on top. She was a lot of fun to create too.
I want to do more mermaids in the future. And then there is my Gothic Girl line that I haven't created yet, and the Bella Swan one that I want to do sometime.
Yup. More projects.
That's the life of a writer, artist, crafter and any other creative person. We all have a tremendous amount of projects lined up.
In hopes of finishing and prospering. So we never have to work for someone else again.
Another thing that always crops up in the back of my mind that my mother said and one of my college teachers.
"You should learn to do one thing and do it well."
Well, I try, but I've always been the girl with many different projects and ideas floating around in this head of mine.
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
How to get a Website looking the right way.
Putting this post on all my blogs today, as I have been doing my Paypal buttons wrong and they don't look right on the side of my blog layout. 47 paper doll sets later, I figured out how to put it underneath the paper doll set. Yay!!!! Which means I have to go back and do all 47 over again the right way.
Good lord, I have been doing my pay pal buttons all wrong I think. I have been trying to get my paper dolls for sale all set up on this blog and my other blogs.
Earlier last year, I learned how to build websites. For eight years while I was married to my ex, I was hoping he would teach me how to upload digital pictures to the computer and teach me how to build a website for my paper dolls. He is a computer programmer yet, it never happened. There never seemed like a time where he could show me how.
And then almost three years go, we got separated. At the time of separation, I had two new digital cameras and wanted to learn how to use them. And then one day, I had filled a memory card and didn't know how to upload pictures yet, so the cameras got cast aside for about a year or more. I didn't know how to upload and erase the pics. And I was computer illiterate and couldn't seem to use my new computer at the time.
I had a profile on Match.com but no picture, so didn't get anybody calling. And I couldn't seem to figure out some of my software. And I couldn't figure out how to get the discs to come out. It was a weird computer. I ended up giving it to my youngest daughter.
Well at the beginning of last year, I was missing a computer and had finished typing up my first mystery novel, Black Roses on the family computer. Yet, was craving a new computer. In January, I broke down and bought a new laptop.
I suddenly fell in love with it. Liked the easy turn on button and the features. And one day, I took the memory card out of the digital cameras and stuck it in a memory card reader that I purchased. At the time, I didn't know you could easily stick them into the laptop and upload.
I discovered how easy and simple it was and I figured out how to erase the pictures after. So I fell in love with my digital cameras and will never go back to 35mm cameras. So once I uploaded, I learned how to get a picture of me on my dating profiles. That is a whole other post, the whole online dating scene. I met someone from it anyway and have been dating for a while.
And once I learned how to upload, I wanted to learn how to create websites for the paper dolls. In Jan and Feb I signed up with Intuit, Web.com and GoDaddy.com. I didn't like Web.com site builder. Cancelled out of that and I think I had to pay extra fees for cancelling early. Cancelled out of GoDaddy.com and stuck with Intuit until March. I liked Intuit's site builder the best, but still got no action. No paper doll sales.
Maybe I didn't give it long enough, people said. But anyway, I ended up forking over lots of money to these sites and fees for cancelling early. And no sales. So for a while, I had no paper doll website.
Then in September and October I decided to fork over a smaller amount of money to Vistaprint for a cheaper website. $14.95 a month to start and then of course I wanted the full optimization and blog so $30 a month. End of October the website was complete and I waited patiently for some sales to happen.
Over this last month, I got a comment from a girl who makes doll clothing who was also having a hard time getting sales. She told me I should sell my paper dolls on my blog. I had never thought about that before. I was getting 1250 visitors to my Vistaprint Website but no sales and by the end of this month, I had forked over $150 to Vistaprint with no paper doll sales in return.
As I looked to the future, I really wanted to give that website a year to see what happened, but at the same time, I didn't want to fork over another $300 to $450 with still no paper doll sales. So, I called up Vistaprint a few days ago and cancelled my website there.
If anyone would like to view that website and my blog there, you can up until the end of this month. jenniferjofaypaperdolls.net I liked the background I had picked out but oh well. Better to have my hard earned money in my pocket instead of Vistaprint's. They can get my money at Christmas time when I order my Christmas cards with them. They do have cheap prices for pictures on their products. I had ordered a tote bag with a picture I took of my daughter sleeping. It was really cute.
So in this last week, I have been transferring my stuff over to my blogs. A few weeks ago, I wasn't sure how to get the paypal buttons onto this site. Then I remembered getting the buttons from Paypal, when I first started doing my Intuit website. So I figured it was the same deal.
So I started going into Paypal and created my buttons and copied the code. And at first I wasn't sure how to put the code in next to my paper doll set. When I first tried, I pasted the code underneath and just saw all the jumble of code and not a paypal button, so I figured I wasn't doing it right. Then I figured out how to paste it into the gadgets on the layout page.
So for the past two to three days, I have been pasting all these gadgets on the side of the page. I looked at it on the page and it doesn't quite look right. Well, finally about a half an hour ago, I think I figured out how to get it next to my paper doll pictures of the set. I tried it under my Little Sparky set. I went into the html and it spit out the codes for the whole page. I scrolled down to Little Sparky and went underneath and pasted the code for the add to cart button.
And also in the beginning, I was doing a buy it now button and realized I should do Add to Cart instead. So I had to backtrack and begin again. Which, now I will also have to begin again. But when I viewed the picture again after I pasted in the code, I was pleased to see the pay pal button underneath the set.
So, moan and groan, I will have to go back and re do forty seven of the others that I had done. I was thinking of leaving the buttons on the layout page, but probably should take them out, as you can't see the paper doll right next to them and it doesn't look right. I did this to my five other active blogs. I wanted to get my paper dolls for sale on all my blogs to see if that would help.
Which means I have a lot of work cut out for me. But it will be worth it in the end, to have a working paper doll website for paper dolls for sale. I'm thinking that I will join Tumblr too and get this going on some other sites too. I probably could figure out how to do it on Wordpress too. It will just take some time to get it all in place. And I might have to go back and do some minor tweaking.
When the Pay pal button showed up there were a few other sections too where I am wondering if I can change something and type in the name of the Paper doll instead. But right now I don't dare to tweak anything without knowing.
The only other thing I'm not sure of yet is working with the shipping options. The pay pal button asked me to put in one shipping amount. So I put the basic amount for one item. But I want to have the options for people to save a little on the shipping if they order more than one item. So right now, I am wondering if they can have an option to ask me for an invoice, where I can change the amount of the shipping accordingly to what I have set up on my order form.
I figured out how to get the button for them to view cart. That was neat, and it looks like through Pay pal, I can send someone an invoice. Some of this is all new and Greek to me, but I am slowly learning.
Jennifer Jo Fay Copyrighted February 15, 2012
So for right now my paper dolls are for sale here and my other five blogs, but I will need to work on doing the Paypal buttons right.
I am liking the idea of selling my Paper Dolls on the blogs. It's a good feeling to know that it is free to sell our stuff on our blogs and not give someone else our hard earned money. I think last year, I easily forked over $300 or $700 to these other more expensive websites and got nothing in return.
And I will also not do another book self publishing with Authorhouse. They got alot of my money too and the royalties haven't gotten to $30. Greatly disappointed about that venture, but like that I got my book in print.
I'm thinking of CreateSpace for the next novels and just the amount to get it in print and copies for my kids. Should be much cheaper.
And the thought of having products for sale on our blogs is that we can have the blog for years and years and not have to fork over money to other people. It just might take longer to get more people to the blogs. And a lot of free advertising.
I do have a small website with Intuit now just to increase traffic. Right now for one domain and three pages it is free for a year and then the price goes to 4.99 a month which would be pretty good if it will increase traffic.
If I think about it, maybe I could sell just a few of my favorite paper dolls there.
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
Good lord, I have been doing my pay pal buttons all wrong I think. I have been trying to get my paper dolls for sale all set up on this blog and my other blogs.
Earlier last year, I learned how to build websites. For eight years while I was married to my ex, I was hoping he would teach me how to upload digital pictures to the computer and teach me how to build a website for my paper dolls. He is a computer programmer yet, it never happened. There never seemed like a time where he could show me how.
And then almost three years go, we got separated. At the time of separation, I had two new digital cameras and wanted to learn how to use them. And then one day, I had filled a memory card and didn't know how to upload pictures yet, so the cameras got cast aside for about a year or more. I didn't know how to upload and erase the pics. And I was computer illiterate and couldn't seem to use my new computer at the time.
I had a profile on Match.com but no picture, so didn't get anybody calling. And I couldn't seem to figure out some of my software. And I couldn't figure out how to get the discs to come out. It was a weird computer. I ended up giving it to my youngest daughter.
Well at the beginning of last year, I was missing a computer and had finished typing up my first mystery novel, Black Roses on the family computer. Yet, was craving a new computer. In January, I broke down and bought a new laptop.
I suddenly fell in love with it. Liked the easy turn on button and the features. And one day, I took the memory card out of the digital cameras and stuck it in a memory card reader that I purchased. At the time, I didn't know you could easily stick them into the laptop and upload.
I discovered how easy and simple it was and I figured out how to erase the pictures after. So I fell in love with my digital cameras and will never go back to 35mm cameras. So once I uploaded, I learned how to get a picture of me on my dating profiles. That is a whole other post, the whole online dating scene. I met someone from it anyway and have been dating for a while.
And once I learned how to upload, I wanted to learn how to create websites for the paper dolls. In Jan and Feb I signed up with Intuit, Web.com and GoDaddy.com. I didn't like Web.com site builder. Cancelled out of that and I think I had to pay extra fees for cancelling early. Cancelled out of GoDaddy.com and stuck with Intuit until March. I liked Intuit's site builder the best, but still got no action. No paper doll sales.
Maybe I didn't give it long enough, people said. But anyway, I ended up forking over lots of money to these sites and fees for cancelling early. And no sales. So for a while, I had no paper doll website.
Then in September and October I decided to fork over a smaller amount of money to Vistaprint for a cheaper website. $14.95 a month to start and then of course I wanted the full optimization and blog so $30 a month. End of October the website was complete and I waited patiently for some sales to happen.
Over this last month, I got a comment from a girl who makes doll clothing who was also having a hard time getting sales. She told me I should sell my paper dolls on my blog. I had never thought about that before. I was getting 1250 visitors to my Vistaprint Website but no sales and by the end of this month, I had forked over $150 to Vistaprint with no paper doll sales in return.
As I looked to the future, I really wanted to give that website a year to see what happened, but at the same time, I didn't want to fork over another $300 to $450 with still no paper doll sales. So, I called up Vistaprint a few days ago and cancelled my website there.
If anyone would like to view that website and my blog there, you can up until the end of this month. jenniferjofaypaperdolls.net I liked the background I had picked out but oh well. Better to have my hard earned money in my pocket instead of Vistaprint's. They can get my money at Christmas time when I order my Christmas cards with them. They do have cheap prices for pictures on their products. I had ordered a tote bag with a picture I took of my daughter sleeping. It was really cute.
So in this last week, I have been transferring my stuff over to my blogs. A few weeks ago, I wasn't sure how to get the paypal buttons onto this site. Then I remembered getting the buttons from Paypal, when I first started doing my Intuit website. So I figured it was the same deal.
So I started going into Paypal and created my buttons and copied the code. And at first I wasn't sure how to put the code in next to my paper doll set. When I first tried, I pasted the code underneath and just saw all the jumble of code and not a paypal button, so I figured I wasn't doing it right. Then I figured out how to paste it into the gadgets on the layout page.
So for the past two to three days, I have been pasting all these gadgets on the side of the page. I looked at it on the page and it doesn't quite look right. Well, finally about a half an hour ago, I think I figured out how to get it next to my paper doll pictures of the set. I tried it under my Little Sparky set. I went into the html and it spit out the codes for the whole page. I scrolled down to Little Sparky and went underneath and pasted the code for the add to cart button.
And also in the beginning, I was doing a buy it now button and realized I should do Add to Cart instead. So I had to backtrack and begin again. Which, now I will also have to begin again. But when I viewed the picture again after I pasted in the code, I was pleased to see the pay pal button underneath the set.
So, moan and groan, I will have to go back and re do forty seven of the others that I had done. I was thinking of leaving the buttons on the layout page, but probably should take them out, as you can't see the paper doll right next to them and it doesn't look right. I did this to my five other active blogs. I wanted to get my paper dolls for sale on all my blogs to see if that would help.
Which means I have a lot of work cut out for me. But it will be worth it in the end, to have a working paper doll website for paper dolls for sale. I'm thinking that I will join Tumblr too and get this going on some other sites too. I probably could figure out how to do it on Wordpress too. It will just take some time to get it all in place. And I might have to go back and do some minor tweaking.
When the Pay pal button showed up there were a few other sections too where I am wondering if I can change something and type in the name of the Paper doll instead. But right now I don't dare to tweak anything without knowing.
The only other thing I'm not sure of yet is working with the shipping options. The pay pal button asked me to put in one shipping amount. So I put the basic amount for one item. But I want to have the options for people to save a little on the shipping if they order more than one item. So right now, I am wondering if they can have an option to ask me for an invoice, where I can change the amount of the shipping accordingly to what I have set up on my order form.
I figured out how to get the button for them to view cart. That was neat, and it looks like through Pay pal, I can send someone an invoice. Some of this is all new and Greek to me, but I am slowly learning.
Jennifer Jo Fay Copyrighted February 15, 2012
So for right now my paper dolls are for sale here and my other five blogs, but I will need to work on doing the Paypal buttons right.
I am liking the idea of selling my Paper Dolls on the blogs. It's a good feeling to know that it is free to sell our stuff on our blogs and not give someone else our hard earned money. I think last year, I easily forked over $300 or $700 to these other more expensive websites and got nothing in return.
And I will also not do another book self publishing with Authorhouse. They got alot of my money too and the royalties haven't gotten to $30. Greatly disappointed about that venture, but like that I got my book in print.
I'm thinking of CreateSpace for the next novels and just the amount to get it in print and copies for my kids. Should be much cheaper.
And the thought of having products for sale on our blogs is that we can have the blog for years and years and not have to fork over money to other people. It just might take longer to get more people to the blogs. And a lot of free advertising.
I do have a small website with Intuit now just to increase traffic. Right now for one domain and three pages it is free for a year and then the price goes to 4.99 a month which would be pretty good if it will increase traffic.
If I think about it, maybe I could sell just a few of my favorite paper dolls there.
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wouldn't you rather be an Internet Junkie than a Junkie
Have you ever had anyone call you an Internet Junkie? I have. A few months ago, my sister called me an Internet Junkie. At first it seemed hurtful and it stung a little bit. I didn't enjoy being called a junkie.
The reason my sister called me this is because I seemed to be immersing myself into the Internet and I knew a lot more about the Internet than she did. She holds down a regular job and has three kids. Her husband is a carpenter. They do use the Internet and their kids like to hop on, yet they aren't on the Internet all the time. They probably only hop on for a little bit and it isn't all the time. And they don't rely on the Internet for their jobs. They are some of the lucky people to be able to hold down a local job that isn't connected with the Internet.
Yet, they do like all the gadgets that us Internet Junkies love. They like the Iphones, tablets and other hi tech gadgets that controls everyones modern day lives.
Yet, for the past year, I have been one of the people who have been online searching out all kinds of things and opportunities. I am one of the millions of people who are delving into the online internet and are searching for ways to earn money online. It can be done.
So after a little bit, I learned to accept my new title, Internet Junkie. I am proud of it. It just means I am more knowledgeable of what the Internet has to offer people. My sister and her family, brother and my father know nothing about earning money online. They know nothing about writing online, blogging and starting a small business online. Things I know about and they do not. Of course, my father comes from the day and age where there were no computers. He didn't grow up in the techno world.
But I would much rather be an Internet Junkie than a Junkie. I would never want to be a Junkie on crack and all kinds of terrible stuff.
And I find writing online to earn some money to be really rewarding, especially when things start to pick up and I'm doing better on all the writing sites. While we are new we have to go on a trial phase of learning the ropes and gaining our audience. It all takes time.
But the writing and earning online is a whole new ballpark that is here to stay and people need to accept that many of their loved ones are resorting to the Internet to make their money. Many of us can no longer do it locally anymore.
Which will also be a reason, I will soon start to have my paper dolls for sale on my blogs. I'm willing to try new things and see what happens. The Internet is a great place that holds lots of opportunities. We just have to be careful about the scary part of the Internet and not get sucked in.
Jennifer Jo Fay
Copyrighted January 25, 2012
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
The reason my sister called me this is because I seemed to be immersing myself into the Internet and I knew a lot more about the Internet than she did. She holds down a regular job and has three kids. Her husband is a carpenter. They do use the Internet and their kids like to hop on, yet they aren't on the Internet all the time. They probably only hop on for a little bit and it isn't all the time. And they don't rely on the Internet for their jobs. They are some of the lucky people to be able to hold down a local job that isn't connected with the Internet.
Yet, they do like all the gadgets that us Internet Junkies love. They like the Iphones, tablets and other hi tech gadgets that controls everyones modern day lives.
Yet, for the past year, I have been one of the people who have been online searching out all kinds of things and opportunities. I am one of the millions of people who are delving into the online internet and are searching for ways to earn money online. It can be done.
So after a little bit, I learned to accept my new title, Internet Junkie. I am proud of it. It just means I am more knowledgeable of what the Internet has to offer people. My sister and her family, brother and my father know nothing about earning money online. They know nothing about writing online, blogging and starting a small business online. Things I know about and they do not. Of course, my father comes from the day and age where there were no computers. He didn't grow up in the techno world.
But I would much rather be an Internet Junkie than a Junkie. I would never want to be a Junkie on crack and all kinds of terrible stuff.
And I find writing online to earn some money to be really rewarding, especially when things start to pick up and I'm doing better on all the writing sites. While we are new we have to go on a trial phase of learning the ropes and gaining our audience. It all takes time.
But the writing and earning online is a whole new ballpark that is here to stay and people need to accept that many of their loved ones are resorting to the Internet to make their money. Many of us can no longer do it locally anymore.
Which will also be a reason, I will soon start to have my paper dolls for sale on my blogs. I'm willing to try new things and see what happens. The Internet is a great place that holds lots of opportunities. We just have to be careful about the scary part of the Internet and not get sucked in.
Jennifer Jo Fay
Copyrighted January 25, 2012
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Sell Your stuff on Ebay
For the last few days I have been busy listing things on Ebay. It is a great place to list something that you don't want and it is collecting dust at your house.
I used to sell stuff on Ebay many years ago when my kids were little. I would go to yardsales and collect stuff to sell. I would also look around my house for things that I didn't really care for and I would take digital pictures of them and upload them and list them. I used to collect recipe books and different types of books at yardsales and would list them on Ebay.
I found it hard sometimes, as it would take me a while to get them all listed and would take time out of my day while the kids were little. They would usually get impatient with me and would want my attention. I had to list them in spurts.
I usually would get people bidding on certain things. It's fun to see them jump fast. Usually at the end, is when people start bidding. They usually watch the items for a few days before bidding, as they don't want it to go really high. but when they want the item really bad, it does get higher in the end.
Ebay used to take a small cut from us even if the item doesn't sell.
So, now I have been listing stuff again. The process is a little easier now. You click on sell your item. They allow you up to 100 items a month in the beginning. Once you become an established seller, your options increase.
Then, you type in what you want to sell and they give you some possible categories you can list it under. You can do one or two. If you do more than one, there are extra fees. Then you get directed to the page where you will put in all your information, title, brand, size, color, used or new, then the detailed section for all the info that they need to know.
You upload one picture for free. If you want to put an extra one it is .15 cents fee. It's good sometimes if you have a more expensive item and you want to put several pictures to give more detail.
If it's a doll, you will want several pictures. Sometimes a picture of the back where all the written details are given is good to have a picture of.
One of my items is a wedgewood woodland dish that is vintage.
Vintage stuff does pretty well, as ebay is one of the few places where you can find the vintage stuff that you are looking for. They sell just about anything under the sun. You name it, it is there.
It's easy to get signed up to sell. You just need an ebay account and a paypal address. You go in and fill a few things out and then you are ready to start.
It's so easy. Once you have things listed, you can track them, answer questions if anyone has a question about something. Then you wait for the auction to end. Usually it is seven days. You can also offer buy it now option. I did that for my Armand Marseille Floradora doll. She was really expensive. I put a starter price for $275 and then a buy it now price at $325.
You also need to set a shipping price that the buyer has to pay. That way you don't actually pay for the shipping. It comes out of their pocket.
Then when the auctions are done, they email you all the info, what auction, the final price, the address where it needs to be shipped to and info that they have sent you paypal payment. You can choose to leave it in your paypal address to use for other purchases on ebay or somewhere else, or you can have them transfer it to your savings or checking account.
It's so easy.
I've got 100 things listed. I usually set a starter price that I would be happy with for each item in case the price doesn't go higher.
I've been looking at some of my kids outfits that don't fit them anymore. Name brands are good. Old Navy, Gap, Children's Place, etc...
Women's clothing, Betsy Johnson, Victoria Secret, Gap, etc.... Papillon. I had a lovely Louisa May Alcott reproduction blouse that is from Papillon that I listed. I only wore it once or twice and it's sitting in my drawer being dormant.
Books, camera stuff, dishes, vintage stuff etc... you name it, try to sell it.
You can also go in and see what is trending in Ebay to decide what you would like to sell.
Yardsales are great, as you can find things that are inexpensive and then try to make some money selling them.
My boyfriend's neighbor does pretty well with it and is always bringing packages to the post office. It doesn't take too long to package things up. You can get free boxes of all sizes at the post office to send priority mail. Packaging is very important. Especially if it is something breakable. Bubble wrap, newspaper, packaging peanuts etc,, should be used to make sure things don't break. You don't want anyone upset that their product broke in transit and then they get their money back and you are out your money and a product. It's broken so it gets sent to the trash.
Once the auction is final, they have about three days to get the money to you or at least to respond and tell you what they are going to do.
It's a great way to make extra money and maybe pay your smaller bills. I suppose you could even make a full time job out of it.
You can go on and create a store for your handmade products. I might consider this option for my paper dolls and hand made soaps and lip balms.
For right now, I have the paperdoll website pretty much finished. I went in earlier this week and last and got all my paypal buttons in place. That way it makes it easy for someone to buy the doll sets now.
http://www.jenniferjofaypaperdolls.net/
So seriously think about cleaning up the clutter in your house and sell it to make some profit. I have been a goodwill girl for a long time. For the past two and a half years goodwill has received a lot of my stuff. Now, I am going to sell on ebay instead, and goodwill will only get the things that I can't end up selling.
This is my expensive Armand Marseille Floradora doll that I am selling. I still have two more floradora dolls that I am keeping. I like their faces better. This one has a pretty face too, but I am willing to part with one. I'm going to make sure I take a bunch of pictures of her before she gets packaged up.
I already have lots of people viewing and watching my auctions, so when they will be done, I imagine I will be busy packaging things for a little bit. Out of 100 items, some are sure to sell.
jennifer Jo Fay
December 14, 2011
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
I used to sell stuff on Ebay many years ago when my kids were little. I would go to yardsales and collect stuff to sell. I would also look around my house for things that I didn't really care for and I would take digital pictures of them and upload them and list them. I used to collect recipe books and different types of books at yardsales and would list them on Ebay.
I found it hard sometimes, as it would take me a while to get them all listed and would take time out of my day while the kids were little. They would usually get impatient with me and would want my attention. I had to list them in spurts.
I usually would get people bidding on certain things. It's fun to see them jump fast. Usually at the end, is when people start bidding. They usually watch the items for a few days before bidding, as they don't want it to go really high. but when they want the item really bad, it does get higher in the end.
Ebay used to take a small cut from us even if the item doesn't sell.
So, now I have been listing stuff again. The process is a little easier now. You click on sell your item. They allow you up to 100 items a month in the beginning. Once you become an established seller, your options increase.
Then, you type in what you want to sell and they give you some possible categories you can list it under. You can do one or two. If you do more than one, there are extra fees. Then you get directed to the page where you will put in all your information, title, brand, size, color, used or new, then the detailed section for all the info that they need to know.
You upload one picture for free. If you want to put an extra one it is .15 cents fee. It's good sometimes if you have a more expensive item and you want to put several pictures to give more detail.
If it's a doll, you will want several pictures. Sometimes a picture of the back where all the written details are given is good to have a picture of.
One of my items is a wedgewood woodland dish that is vintage.
Vintage stuff does pretty well, as ebay is one of the few places where you can find the vintage stuff that you are looking for. They sell just about anything under the sun. You name it, it is there.
It's easy to get signed up to sell. You just need an ebay account and a paypal address. You go in and fill a few things out and then you are ready to start.
It's so easy. Once you have things listed, you can track them, answer questions if anyone has a question about something. Then you wait for the auction to end. Usually it is seven days. You can also offer buy it now option. I did that for my Armand Marseille Floradora doll. She was really expensive. I put a starter price for $275 and then a buy it now price at $325.
You also need to set a shipping price that the buyer has to pay. That way you don't actually pay for the shipping. It comes out of their pocket.
Then when the auctions are done, they email you all the info, what auction, the final price, the address where it needs to be shipped to and info that they have sent you paypal payment. You can choose to leave it in your paypal address to use for other purchases on ebay or somewhere else, or you can have them transfer it to your savings or checking account.
It's so easy.
I've got 100 things listed. I usually set a starter price that I would be happy with for each item in case the price doesn't go higher.
I've been looking at some of my kids outfits that don't fit them anymore. Name brands are good. Old Navy, Gap, Children's Place, etc...
Women's clothing, Betsy Johnson, Victoria Secret, Gap, etc.... Papillon. I had a lovely Louisa May Alcott reproduction blouse that is from Papillon that I listed. I only wore it once or twice and it's sitting in my drawer being dormant.
Books, camera stuff, dishes, vintage stuff etc... you name it, try to sell it.
You can also go in and see what is trending in Ebay to decide what you would like to sell.
Yardsales are great, as you can find things that are inexpensive and then try to make some money selling them.
My boyfriend's neighbor does pretty well with it and is always bringing packages to the post office. It doesn't take too long to package things up. You can get free boxes of all sizes at the post office to send priority mail. Packaging is very important. Especially if it is something breakable. Bubble wrap, newspaper, packaging peanuts etc,, should be used to make sure things don't break. You don't want anyone upset that their product broke in transit and then they get their money back and you are out your money and a product. It's broken so it gets sent to the trash.
Once the auction is final, they have about three days to get the money to you or at least to respond and tell you what they are going to do.
It's a great way to make extra money and maybe pay your smaller bills. I suppose you could even make a full time job out of it.
You can go on and create a store for your handmade products. I might consider this option for my paper dolls and hand made soaps and lip balms.
For right now, I have the paperdoll website pretty much finished. I went in earlier this week and last and got all my paypal buttons in place. That way it makes it easy for someone to buy the doll sets now.
http://www.jenniferjofaypaperdolls.net/
So seriously think about cleaning up the clutter in your house and sell it to make some profit. I have been a goodwill girl for a long time. For the past two and a half years goodwill has received a lot of my stuff. Now, I am going to sell on ebay instead, and goodwill will only get the things that I can't end up selling.
This is my expensive Armand Marseille Floradora doll that I am selling. I still have two more floradora dolls that I am keeping. I like their faces better. This one has a pretty face too, but I am willing to part with one. I'm going to make sure I take a bunch of pictures of her before she gets packaged up.
I already have lots of people viewing and watching my auctions, so when they will be done, I imagine I will be busy packaging things for a little bit. Out of 100 items, some are sure to sell.
jennifer Jo Fay
December 14, 2011
If anyone likes paperdolls or knows someone who likes paper dolls, check out my paperdoll post on each of my blogs where my paper dolls are for sale:
http://jennyjofaypaperdolls.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferpaperdolls.blogspot.com/ The Official Paper Doll Blog
http://mommiedearest101.blogspot.com/
http://yourstrulycraftygal.blogspot.com/
http://prolificpoetrychick.blogspot.com/
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