DBAY (Doing Business as Yourself) is a Planet Andrea breakout room for people who are into living their Human Design experiment who also want to explore possibilities for how to navigate that in a world that maybe isn't ready for you to be that.
I (Andrea) & whoever else steps through this portal are here to brainstorm that w/you & guide you on the tech bits.
Primary Goal: Success, Satisfaction, Peace &/or Delight
Speaking of emotional waves (Oop - started this over on Planet Andrea Locals lol and decided last minute it fit over here better) … or maybe it’s just timing of the pieces coming together…
Which is meeting my Emotional Authority that moves my body when it moves it … no choice.
This week I watched the movement begin on researching and vetting (1st line) and organizing (17/62 enjoys) my various art directions (facilitated by 16/48 - the channel of talent that practices - stuff) onto replicable products.
It’s actually a “leap” that’s been decades in the making.
And I’m pretty jazzed about the wheels beginning to turn.
Am now thinking of them in terms of potential collections, thanks to three things -
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an invitation from @mellijae earlier this year to explore the teaching work of a pattern designer,
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witnessing @Bodyvoice collaborate with a canadian company to get her designs onto clothing and create collections that way,
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and also bumping into the artist freedom formula guy who teaches a funnel that’s based on a collection of 4 artworks (sold via a free plus shipping model) - for the sole purpose of building a contact database of buyers who are basically on speed dial for new art announcements.
Oh and also, earlier this year, I ran into and subsequently purchased the larger offer from a gal who’s space is historically ecommerce, but I’m seeing her shifting away from importing from China to “things we can do from home”, which also has a focus on printables.
It’s her community that’s offering up the companies to vet first for making prints. Something I’ve found complete overwhelming to even begin before.
Last week someone mentioned a sticker company that will do 10 samples of any image for $9 - with decent minimums and pricing for more.
And it turns out that their website is quite Andrea friendly (important! markets environment here - I can see now how user-clunky websites are a no go for me).
They also have a (single) coaster option and they print magnets.
So, a couple days ago I picked these three images, went through their ordering process ….
And it was painless!
Now I wait like an expectant parent. 😊
There’s more backstory to this (my relationship to art) journey on my FB timeline here if you’re curious -
I dropped this into Planet Andrea Locals by mistake yesterday- it might be too weird for in here too - if I ever do an actual podcast for this,, might have to restart the numbers higher 😂
Anyway, here’s me waking up and talking mostly to myself yesterday morning 😜🙃
Maybe there’s a nugget or two 🤷🏻♀️ no promises though :)
AWA aka ‘Art With Andrea’, is one of the umbrella ideas I’m floating around with atm that cropped up as I’ve been going through the subscription box contemplation process. Even bought the domain.
This morning (as happens many mornings), I woke up with what felt like crystal clarity around how to possibly move forward with, I guess is, a Collective application (two of my channels are Collective - the conscious ones, number 3 is Tribal) of sharing the stuff that I do/ don’t do - today’s topic was art - and the way that I think about all that.
So that’s what this audio is about. The dots that connected in my head this morning in that ...
Dropping this in here for future experimenting. Or not 🤓
Apparently CanvaPro is another way to generate QR Codes that don’t expire. But here’s a free way I just bumped into - via excel.
Can also see, given the months that have passed since my last one, it’s maybe time for another update from me - if anyone is interested, of course 🤷🏻♀️🙃🙂
Cool either way 😌
Unexpected. 🤷🏻♀️😊
But my body keep saying yes 👍🏽
I am seeing lots of ways it makes sense that it suits me Design-wise.
Can expand on that part in a separate post if that’s interesting?
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Meanwhile, here’s a short video sharing what I’ve been up to the last couple weeks 🥳
(been trying to get this uploaded for what feels like several days - clearly, YouTube is the way forward)
This video is from a gal named Adeline, who promoted the same high ticket affiliate program as I did years ago (before it self-destructed in 2018).
She’s recently resurfaced (promoting something else high ticket, I forget what already - if I know at all, that’s how much it caught my attention - so far anyway 🤓)
But the content she’s doing on this new IG account is sort of a ‘classic recipe’ for “if you were starting an affiliate monetized income stream from scratch, here’s what could lead to success”.
I just bumped into one of the pieces of content she’s added (via an old FB group that she resurrected a couple weeks ago) that features a Clickbank Marketplace information product as the affiliate thingy that’s being sold.
Here’s a link to that video -
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKKHPfnJjLm/?igsh=b2E1b3hkY2FjNWhq
What she’s showing is showing a way (in like a minute 🙂) to use already existing content to support building out a topic specific IG account that then can bring ...
