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My Gothic Pagoda Earrings by Glamour Twinkles
What a feeling! I have had the most unboring, go-go gettum week. I diligently stuck to my routine and oh boy, does it feel GOOD! It makes me wish I’d done this much sooner.
My B&W Feather Earrings by Glamour Twinkles
Highlights of my business week:
Media Monday: Had me actually reading the Handmadeology blog posts and discovered the joy of Hootsuite. You probably all know about this incredible system where you can have all your Twitter lists, WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr and Facebook all in front of you at the same time. Incredibly I’ve only just now experienced this. Love…
Trade Me Tuesday: Listings ahoy. I’ve some new items to my listings, and paying more attention to the categories I’m using on our little Kiwi auction site – where you can auction off your pesky Kiwi’s (hardy-har-har)
Etsy Wednesday: With my new skills in Hootsuite I now have a buttload of scheduled Tweets extoling the virtures of buying Glamour Twinkles Jewelry on Etsy. You know the routine…
Attack of the Thursday: Actually, this didn”t work out so well but it wasn’t through any fault of mine. It was the slow downloading Internet service that had me frustrated and resulted in me …. switching off my Netbook (shakes, cold sweats, turkey cold). It was a very odd night. I ended up doing a form of “market research” by reading old tattoo magazines … for researching where I could feasibly advertise Glamour Twinkles Jewelry (and get a new tattoo…..)
Photo Friday: Hello Internet, how I missed you my darling. Lets never fight again. Now this was a bit of a cheat. I’m supposed to be updating Flickr and Facebook photo albums but after Thursday I wanted to catch up on the work I couldn’t do so I finally finished editing the 20 new pairs of Tattoo Earrings I’d shot months ago and never got around to finishing, Plus darling Picnik is closing in April so I’m using that as a handy excuse for not strictly following my own new rules. Hey, I’m a rebel, man. Business or not!
Edit Saturday: This is a pretty vague day. I mean editing? Edit what? Well, whatever I want. It was the earrings photos… again… I have so many of those digital fiends. But I’m glad I’ve finally finished editing them. The next step was sticking them into Etsy listings, as well as editing said listings to add to my scheduled Tweets so it all meshes together quite nicely.
Blogging Sunday: Well, you’re reading it. I’m also spending the day prepping draft Behind The Twinkle blog posts so I can “activate” them while I am work on Wednesday morning through my iPhone. Man, how did the caveman ever manage without the unstoppable mobile phone? And we were worried about Skynet. Tisk tisk humanity. Ironically enough I’ve deleted virtually all of my iPhone reminders because having my Little Red Business Book at home and Little Black Business Book at work has been far more effective. Sorry iPhone.
Strangely enough my new attitude is carrying over into my 9-5 corporate job (well 8.30-5.20pm actually). I’m pretty busy there as well and achieving mucho taskology. Added that so you’d know it’s still me writing these posts. I mean I’m still me. Just a more efficient me.
I'm Going to Miss Picnik
My, how we’ve changed. I used to devour actual magazines with gusto. Not so much now I’m afraid. Well, apart from tattoo magazines but that’s not what this blog is about. No, I’ve been working on my marketing e-course and purchasing the first mags I’ve got in, I don’t remember how long. Sadly, I’ve changed.
To market a product one must know their audience. One should also know a little something about possible promotional options. Thusly, magazines were purchased to that effect. Little hint, I’m not sure what my market is so I decided to purchase only NZ and Australian magazines. I figure if and when I have to send samples out the postage won’t cost the earth. So I went out and purchased:
NOT the magazine for me. Full of very expensive glossy clothes and high-end hair styling products. Weird, I thought it was a fashion mag. Purchased because it’s cover told me it held a “what to wear guide”. Didn’t really gel with this little reader.
The cover of this tome told me it had “summer’s hit list” and it also had a couple of articles on stylists which I’ll probably read later. Much later. Sorry, another no go from me.
(embarrassingly) Cosmopolitan
Cry, sniff, I used to love this magazine. The cover told me it had “fierce fashion, super glam looks….” ‘fraid not. I knew it was full of relationship BS but it used to have great editorials and fashion spreads. I used to find great pics that I would cut out and keep in little scrap books. And I’ve got plenty of these little style books - that’s what I call them. Sadly, this mag had nothing to write home about. Ciao.
See above. Cover had “look lush for less”. Very unlush to me.
My point is that I couldn’t see myself pitching an editorial storyline for any of these magazines to feature my jewelry – well, I mean for them to just look at my jewelry – and I was beginning to despair until I remembered one last magazine that I had forked out for:
At last. Exclamation points abound! Love this magazine. I’ve folded the corners on so may pages and articles that I may even be back next month for my magazine fill. Hurrah!
White Skull - Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles - available soon
I’m now back at my Girl Friday job in the big city and this past week has been rather distracting with new Twitter followers beeping my phone, blogs to read and pesky office work interrupting my dreams of featuring in print. But then, my job keeps me in the lifestyle I am accustomed to so I’m getting my head back in the work game. And as such I’ll really need to come up with a work plan if I want to keep up with all the Glamour Twinkly things I need to do to get my “bling” out there. Quite unlikely if I ever again refer to my jewelry line as “bling” argh!
This weekend has seen me in full photo shoot mode with the new items I’ve made these last two weeks (too many sunny days do not a good photo shoot make). Oh, and last night I got the shocking email from Picnik telling me they were closing. You know that moment when you read something so unbelievable that you must read it a couple of time before it sinks in? That was me last night as I prepped my dindins. I read the email and (being the habitual paranormal/hoax footage skeptic I am) I was waiting for the punch line. No, Picnik will be gone and Google+ will “take over many of their awesome features”. It all happens on 19 April 2012. As you can probably tell I really love using Picnik. It is an awesome photo editing system. But the show must go on. Thank goodness I always saved my edits to my PC and not on their servers. There must be some frantic saving going on in cyber space right now. So that’s been my past week.
Orange Bear French Fries - Cutie Pie Milkshake bracelet - photoshoot results
I have finally finished shooting every Glamour Twinkle piece for my new newly styled jewelry photographs. These digital gems will see me through posts and uploads on Etsy, Trade Me, Tumblr and my Facebook Page (wow I have a lot of blog/look-at-me websites).
For the past two weekends I have been either shooting, deciding on background for pieces, polishing the jewelry, papering over my front window to block out sunshine that creates ugly shadows, draining the camera battery, zipping over to my PC to download pics onto a memory stick, and finally, using Picnik to crop and fix any scraggly bits on my precious photos. So tonight I’m going to be rather lazy and let this clever WordPress blog slide show present some of the fruits of my labour:
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