Maybe This Is It...

In yesterday's post, I wondered about what I could be doing with my life once my PTA (and now) Young Women calling were over.  Well, I haven't yet shown you this:

This is a cooperative project I'm working on with Genius Golfer.  I take the photos and create the products--which I was doing already for friends and family--and he created the website and will handle the marketing and distribution.  At least, that is, in theory.  I am not sure anyone will even buy any thing, but at least I am trying.  And it has been a good practice project for GG to hone his web-development skills.  We'll see how successful it is after that point.

But I guess I do have a project to keep me busy.  Except to this point, I have spent money and time to make the cards to put on the site, and there is no reciprocal income to be seen yet.

I'll still keep you posted.  We'll see what happens.  It is the Internet...anything can happen.

Keeping Busy

I have been working on this project for weeks.  Some days it is only 15 minutes here, another week it might be a few hours.  But this is the result of my effort.  I haven't even counted them really, but I had over 750 prints the last time I ordered for my cards.  And I had a couple other stacks of prints I hadn't gotten to yet.  Now they are all cards.  Finally. And this is the inventory stock-hold for our newest website adventure.

Genius Golfer, in one of many irons in the fire--so to speak--is developing a website to sell my photo cards for me.  He told me my job is the creative work and manufacturing end.  He will take care of the marketing and shipping.  So this is the beginning of what I hope is a profitable--without being a time sucking--first time (for me) entrepreneurial effort.

At least that would give me the hope someone else might like to buy and use my cards.  Though GG's plan for pricing is too much for me to completely agree.  But I am cheap.  I know that.  If I think I can make something, I'm not going to pay money for it from someone else.  But his thought was "a lot of people don't want to bother making it themselves...and you need to do more than cover your costs."  I guess that is true.  But I can't bring myself to charge $10-$20 for a set of handmade photo cards.  He didn't even flinch.

I guess that is why he is the marketing guy.  I'll stick with shooting pictures and making cards...just like I always have done.  And if he can get something going to generate a little spending money on the side for me, I'd love that.  That was the only reason I even tried to sell them in the first place--to recoup my expenses and make a little pocket change too.  Here's hoping for more than pocket change.  Good thing he is in charge.

The website is nearly done--he's been waiting for me to get the sets figured together so the customers can see just what they are buying...while I like to call them "Spring floral cards" and you get what you get and you don't throw a fit.  But internet buyers want to see JUST what they are buying. I would want the same when i buy online, so I can't fault him for making me figure it out ahead of time.  But it does add one more layer of worry  and change for me.

We'll keep you posted and introduce the website here when it is ready for visitors.  Wish us luck!