A bit of a late update... Total for week three was a measly 11 cloth pads. It feels like it should be more. There are about 30 pads in a half finished state but I actually only completed 11.
So I'm on 33 out of 50 items now.
I spent the last few days taking photos and uploading them. My cloth pad photos look horrible for some reason. I think I want to retake them. My shop now has 32 items in it, which is the most it's ever had.
I feel very disillusioned though. I've been working constantly for around three weeks and all I have to show for it is 33 items. There's about £400 worth of stock in my shop now. Minus roughly 10% for all the fees, so that's about £360. That won't even cover what I put on my credit card to buy all the materials I've bought recently. Once I complete another batch of items then maybe I'll start to make a profit, but it's not very motivating. It doesn't feel worth it.
Just to make it even less motivating, I woke up this morning to find that my shop had had no visits and no views overnight. Even yesterday when it only had 9 items in it, I still woke up to find views/visits on my items. I decided that if I don't have any sales by Sunday I'm going to stop making things and I'll call it quits. I won't close down my shop, I'll just leave it up and hope that the things sell but I'll have to think of some other way to pay back the money I owe to my credit card. At least it's 0% interest for two years. It doesn't make sense to keep putting money and effort into something that isn't working.
Today I'm going to try and motivate myself to work on stuff. It would be good to finish off the pads I've started. To save me from going completely crazy by photographing every single pad, I was thinking I might offer a mystery print bundle deal. I'm not sure if people like that sort of stuff but I might give it a go.
Well, it's nearly lunch time and my shop still doesn't have a single visit... that's very unusual. I'll just carry on for now and hopefully things will pick up later in the week.
So I'm on 33 out of 50 items now.
I spent the last few days taking photos and uploading them. My cloth pad photos look horrible for some reason. I think I want to retake them. My shop now has 32 items in it, which is the most it's ever had.
I feel very disillusioned though. I've been working constantly for around three weeks and all I have to show for it is 33 items. There's about £400 worth of stock in my shop now. Minus roughly 10% for all the fees, so that's about £360. That won't even cover what I put on my credit card to buy all the materials I've bought recently. Once I complete another batch of items then maybe I'll start to make a profit, but it's not very motivating. It doesn't feel worth it.
Just to make it even less motivating, I woke up this morning to find that my shop had had no visits and no views overnight. Even yesterday when it only had 9 items in it, I still woke up to find views/visits on my items. I decided that if I don't have any sales by Sunday I'm going to stop making things and I'll call it quits. I won't close down my shop, I'll just leave it up and hope that the things sell but I'll have to think of some other way to pay back the money I owe to my credit card. At least it's 0% interest for two years. It doesn't make sense to keep putting money and effort into something that isn't working.
Today I'm going to try and motivate myself to work on stuff. It would be good to finish off the pads I've started. To save me from going completely crazy by photographing every single pad, I was thinking I might offer a mystery print bundle deal. I'm not sure if people like that sort of stuff but I might give it a go.
Well, it's nearly lunch time and my shop still doesn't have a single visit... that's very unusual. I'll just carry on for now and hopefully things will pick up later in the week.
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