I've put some new products on Zazzle

It's getting to be 'that time of year' to start putting together some new

items for my Rustic Goth Zazzle Shop.

I have put new items, periodically, into the shop there...

and I knew that they had changed their design fairly recently...

but..

I sure hadn't realized just 'how' much they'd changed

or

how difficult it would be for me to try to find my way around.

It's not hard to add new items...

it's difficult to try to figure out where to place them now.

I imagine I'll have to spend some time everyday

until I figure it out...

in the meantime though...

I put about twenty new items in that shop

this past week.

I am closing my Shop...Not So Fast....

....in ArtFire!

I have decided to close my CMZart  ArtFire Shop...on September 10th!

After trying a couple different eCommerce builders....I have decided that I

neither have the time...or the patience...to try to find one that does what I want and need it to.

This close to what I hope is my 'busy' time of year...I have opted to leave ArtFire open, at least through the rest of this year.

Then I will re-evaluate how well (or not) ArtFire is doing and I'll make a decision

when I have more time to experiment....

...so for now...No New Web Store

and ArtFire will remain open through the end of the year!

It puts me about a month shy of one year...and I was originally going to give it one year ... but...

the site just is not paying for itself...so it's time to go ahead and close the doors.

My Rustic Goth Etsy Shop will remain open 

(until and unless they make changes to the site that ends up being more than I can bear)...

and for the time being...

my Fairytalez N Fantasiez Etsy Shop will also remain open.

I combined the two Etsy Shop to create the CMZart ArtFire Shop...

offering a 'one stop shop'...

but most everything that I did sell through ArtFire was a Rustic Goth item...

so I will give Fairytalez N Fantasiez

until next Spring

before I make any final decisions on that Shop.

There were a lot of 'bugs' during checkout in our ArtFire Shop as well as

too much 'downtime'

 (which also influenced my decision to close this shop)

...so...

I've decided to open my Own Rustic Goth online Shop .. 

on my website...
 instead.

I plan to have that shop up...and fully operational
 by the first week of September!

The summer...

I haven't posted many blog posts this summer....

for one thing...

I'm desperate for a new laptop.

My old one needs to be 'laid to rest'....

so I'm saving up to get an inexpensive one...

and then I'll be able to do more

digital paintings

and more posts!!

My Own Web Store

I have decided to open my OWN Web Store.

 

Until I get the site figured out...I started with a free store....which is

very limited in the number of items.

But...I didn't want to pay for a store and then use the first month

trying to figure it all out.

 

So...I'm getting everything ready to go...working out any bugs...trying to understand

how the site works...etc

so that I can have a full Store up and operational

by fall.

 

 I currently have a couple of postcards discounted to half price

to see if I can generate a couple of sales

to test how the checkout will work.

My Two Etsy Shops

At the end of last year I opened a second Etsy Shop

Fairytalez N Fantasiez.

I wanted somewhere to offer my 'cute' art that didn't 

conjure up any thoughts of darkness.

The only problem with that is....I literally get very little traffic to that

particular shop.

I know I've had my Rustic Goth Etsy Shop since 2007 and was lucky enough

to build a following before Etsy decided relevancy was better than just 'browsing'...

but..

when I don't even get a dozen views on an original

Alice in Wonderland

painting...in a week's time...

I won't be able to spend as much time working on pieces for that shop

as I do my Rustic Goth Shop.

I listed this Alice in Wonderland painting there...got 6 views in 8 days...now it's going

to get moved to Rustic Goth

and we'll see how it does there.