"If you are on the horns of a dilemma, you are faced with two equally unpleasant options and have to choose one."
English is such a colorful language! (if you are curious about the origin of this phrase, you can go here to read more)
It truly describes how I feel just now, however.
On the one hand, I have always considered my website to be a reflection of my art. It served as a place to show off my latest creations and (occasionally) sell one of them. It was where I put my show schedule. But first and foremost, it HAD to be, well, ARTFUL!
On the other hand, just now, I really need to find a way to generate some income and in an article in yesterday's USA Today there were some references to some websites that are "rakin' it in" by putting Google ads on their sites.
I went and took a look at a bunch of those this morning -- and here's the problem: to me they are NOT artful -- some of them are extremely cluttered and confusing, and are the last place I would seek information because of that.
Obviously I'm not a good judge of what makes money however.....
So, now what? I refuse to let my ART site look like that, which of course leaves me with the other alternative -- build a site that is designed specifically to make money. It will require me to create an entirely new site (probably at first a free one somewhere) based on something (what is not clear at this point) that will be designed just to generate some kind of income.
This of course will take time away from making art -- but, I suppose its better than the OTHER alternative -- you know, a Walmart job ---
hmmmmmmmmmm -- guess I need to go think about what I know enough about to write it for $$
2 comments:
Could you teach on-line classes on making your jewelry? I don't know how that would work. Or sell articles on crafting that a person would pay for and then download? You know a lot about how to create art, and find shows, enter, etc. That seems like a specialty niche.
thanks Marty -- I'll think about trying to figure out how to do that!
Post a Comment