100 Items Today

Yay! I have now officially posted 100 items to my etsy store! Browse:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/emmaelizabethartwork

ebay store!!! ...and Trello

I posted 20 new listings to ebay today!!! 20!!! That's a lot. They are up for 7 day auction. I am super excited about this ebay thing, but I am even more excited about Trello!!!

This is another one of these ideas brought to you by the genius Glady Dalton.
https://www.facebook.com/gladyannephotography
 Like her. Support her. She's awesome and she is a genius. Trello is also genius, and if you don't use it, you should use it. It can be for anything. If you are a housewife and you have to organize your house and coordinate kid things, you should use it. If you are a student, you should use it. If you do any kind of creative projects at all, you should use it. If you coordinate efforts on projects with other people for school of for work, you'all should use it. If you are an entrepreneur starting a small online business (hello...this is me) and you need to organize inventory, finances, budgeting, your balance sheet, your product descriptions and photography, your storefronts, your blogs, your websites, your marketing tools, and the billions of social networking sites you use to promote your business, then YOU SHOULD USE IT!!!
I NEEDED THIS!!! I can't believe I haven't been using this tool for years! It is so convenient, and it is so wonderful to finally have all of the stuff that has been jumbling my brain out in front of me in a workable, usable, organized, and understandable format!
Trello is a revelation!

Okay, here is a link to my ebay store:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/emmaelizabethartworkandjewelry
And here are links to the products I posted today:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390681178
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390676507
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390688561
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390686203
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390691472
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390693315
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390807362
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390810416
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390798473
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390805348
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390795826
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390802984
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390839582
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390851426
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390833772
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390841433
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390827089
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390836217
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390844849
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261390846593

Uh, yeah, 20 is a lot. I won't blame you if you don't click them all.

3 New Earring Listings Today!!!

3 Gorgeous New Earrings

These are listed for $10.00 a pair + free shipping on my Etsy site:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/emmaelizabethartwork

and also are available on Ebay. The auction ends tomorrow and bidding starts at $3.99! Click the link below to check out the auction:  

http://www.ebay.com/usr/motorfan998qdr

3 Cultured Freshwater Pearls & Silver Drop Earrings. Available here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121269020791 and here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/178146145/3-pearl-cluster-silver-drop-earrings?ref=shop_home_active_3

Aquamarine and Peridot Cluster Earrings available here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121269031556 and here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/178154688/aquamarine-and-peridot-cluster-silver?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Amethyst and Peridot cluster Earrings Available here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/121269027955 and here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/178153342/amethyst-and-peridot-cluster-silver-drop?ref=listing-shop-header-1

New Ebay Store!

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Ebay Store

I opened a storefront on ebay. I haven't listed any items yet, but my plan is to put several items up for auctions that last a day so that I can get the "ending soon" traffic. Auctions tend to do better than "buy it now" products on ebay, generally speaking. My husband and I have had moderate success selling some of my items at auction using my husband's account, but I am hoping with some promotion and advertising, I can get people to buy from an ebay storefront that is more directly linked to my Etsy shop. I'll continue to update you on how things go. For now you can check it out here:

http://www.ebay.com/usr/emmaelizabethartworkandjewelry

Also, visit the Etsy Shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EmmaElizabethArtwork

Auctions Ending Soon on Ebay

Check out these Earring Auctions Ending Soon on Ebay!

http://www.ebay.com/usr/motorfan998qdr

Click the link above to check out the great selection of Earrings we have up for auction! They start at $2.99 a set and the shipping costs are really low! The auctions end in under 2 hours! 

Original Oil on Canvas Paintings

http://www.etsy.com/listing/177338179/original-seafront-painting-oil-on-canvas?ref=listing-shop-header-1

Original Oil on Canvas Paintings

I'm listing a couple of my original oil paintings in my etsy store. This was my original intention for this shop, that it be an outlet for me to sell my art that I have already created as well as my art as I complete it in real time. The painting above is one that I did last week in my Tuesday painting class that I am taking from the master Del Parson at Dixie State University this semester. I completed this painting in under 3 hours ( I am very proud of that fact and am impressed that I am improving at least with regard to time, when it comes to my oil painting) By the way, Del Parson gives this piece a 5 out of 5 (This is not an official endorsement, but my grade of "5 points." Yes it was an assignment, and it is a reproduction of another artist's work. I do not know the name of the original painting or the name of the artist. I used a photocopy as a guide while painting this.) 

The painting below is one of the first oil paintings that I ever completed. It is my very first landscape painting. It was completed in either 2004 or 2005 (I don't know the exact date). It is a rendering of the Knysna Bay in South Africa. I painted it from a photograph in a book on South Africa that my parents have.  I have always loved the bright blue sky in this painting. It is the reason I chose this landscape as a subject. For more information on the paintings and to get a closer look, visit my shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EmmaElizabethArtwork?ref=si_shop

http://www.etsy.com/listing/177337353/original-knysna-bay-painting-oil-on?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Internet Marketing is Hard Part II

Internet Marketing is Hard

Okay, so a couple of days ago I wrote a blog entry and I was all "Internet marketing is hard!...There must be a better way!" (see "Internet Marketing is Hard!":
http://emmaelizabethartwork.blogspot.com/2014/01/internet-marketing-is-hard.html )

I Found A Better Way

Well, I found the better way! FACEBOOK ADVERTISING! The idea was given to me by my friend Glady Dalton (She's an amazing photographer! Here is a link to her Facebook page Glady Anne Photography:
http://www.facebook.com/gladyannephotography?ref=ts&fref=ts )
She said she got thousands of people viewing an ad for her calendar that she put up on Facebook and it cost her $7.00 to run the ad. 

What I did

Okay, so here's the deal, I paid Facebook $5.00 a day for 2 days. I tailored my ads the first day to increase the likes of my business's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emma-Elizabeth-Artwork/501294183325528?ref=tn_tnmn
That ad ran for 2 days and got my page a total of 70 likes. 
On the second day, I created an ad to increase traffic to my Etsy shop. The add ran for 24 hours and got me a total of 53 views to my etsy shop. I was able to reach 3 times the number of people in those 2 days with my facebook ads than I was able to reach in one week promoting my shop on etsy. I got 17 times the number of views in one day of facebook ads, than I was able to get in one week of promoting my shop with Etsy's search ads! I have now stopped paying Facebook (I only paid $10.00) and the likes on my Facebook page are steadily increasing and so are the views to my Etsy shop.   

The Drawback

I'm not saying promoting on Etsy is a bad thing, in fact, the one benefit is that the people who see my Etsy search ads are already members of Etsy and don't have to create an account. My Facebook ads have not yet resulted in sales and I suspect the reason is because people who see those adds aren't necessarily members of Etsy. My next idea is to develop my website emmaelizabethartwork.com into a storefront so that people can buy there without an account. Once that's done, I will pay facebook to promote it because I am very impressed! One of my favorite features of their ad service is that I am able to tailor my ads to get the result that I want. (example: my first campaign was to increase my page likes on Facebook. My second campaign was to increase traffic to Etsy.) Both times, I was very pleased with the outcome.

Shameless Self-Promotion

I hope this blog entry will help other people who are trying to develop small internet based businesses. In the mean time, here are some links: 

Visit my Etsy Shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/EmmaElizabethArtwork

Sign up for my mailing list:
http://emmaelizabethartwork.com/

Like my Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emma-Elizabeth-Artwork/501294183325528?ref=tn_tnmn

Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/EmmaElizabethAr

See what inspires me by following me on Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/emmaelizabethme/

And if you feel so inclined, you can shop these items available at auction on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/motorfan998qdr

or shop my Storenvy shop:
http://www.storenvy.com/stores/247351-emma-elizabeth
or
http://emmaelizabethartwork.storenvy.com/