I got approved to be in my local Friday Night Market experience here in Eureka, so that’s awesome news!

[coreyartus@mindly.social]

I got approved to be in my local Friday Night Market experience here in Eureka, CA! Woohoo!

Eureka Friday Night Markets

Eureka Friday Night Markets in Humboldt County is the regions premier festival featuring hundreds of local artisans every Friday during the summer

EUREKA FRIDAY NIGHT MARKETS (www.fridaynight.market)

I really hope selling things in person works, because trying to develop a presence through social media simply doesn’t work anything like it used to.

I sold less than $1000 last year trying to grow. I love the Fediverse, but honestly it’s a particularly brutal platform for artists trying to get the word out and sell their stuff. I’ve seen more than 2/3 of the artists I had been following simply abandon it since I joined in the fall of ’23. Hundreds and hundreds of artists...

I have a few other shows I want to participate in, but they’re pricey (both are over $225 for their two-day events). I know it takes money to make money, but wow. We figured out I’d need to sell 60 cards at one and 90 cards at the other just to break even after expenses. I’ve only sold just under 125 cards all year…

So it’s gonna be challenging. And I’m one of the lucky ones, to be truthful. So I’ll keep adding stuff to my Goimagine shop (I just added 14 cards over the last 3 days) and I’m working on getting some additional items up. But we’ll see! Yoinks! it’s gonna be interesting… hehe…

But celebrate the victories, right? And I got in!!! Woohooo! One step at a time!

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