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) ā¦ or maybe itās just timing of the pieces coming togetherā¦
Which is meeting my Emotional Authority that moves my body when it moves it ā¦ 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.
Itās actually a āleapā thatās been decades in the making.
And Iām 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 thatās 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 whoās space is historically ecommerce, but Iām seeing her shifting away from importing from China to āthings we can do from homeā, which also has a focus on printables.
Itās her community thatās offering up the companies to vet first for making prints. Something Iāve 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 ā¦.
And it was painless!
Now I wait like an expectant parent. š
Thereās more backstory to this (my relationship to art) journey on my FB timeline here if youāre 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 š
Anyway, hereās me waking up and talking mostly to myself yesterday morning šš
Maybe thereās a nugget or two š¤·š»āāļø no promises though :)
AWA aka āArt With Andreaā, is one of the umbrella ideas Iām floating around with atm that cropped up as Iāve 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/ donāt do - todayās topic was art - and the way that I think about all that.
So thatās what this audio is about. The dots that connected in my head this morning in that ...
Unexpected. š¤·š»āāļøš
But my body keep saying yes šš½
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 thatās interesting?
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Meanwhile, hereās a short video sharing what Iāve been up to the last couple weeks š„³
(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).
Sheās recently resurfaced (promoting something else high ticket, I forget what already - if I know at all, thatās how much it caught my attention - so far anyway š¤)
But the content sheās doing on this new IG account is sort of a āclassic recipeā for āif you were starting an affiliate monetized income stream from scratch, hereās what could lead to successā.
I just bumped into one of the pieces of content sheās added (via an old FB group that she resurrected a couple weeks ago) that features a Clickbank Marketplace information product as the affiliate thingy thatās being sold.
Hereās a link to that video -
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKKHPfnJjLm/?igsh=b2E1b3hkY2FjNWhq
What sheās showing is showing a way (in like a minute š) to use already existing content to support building out a topic specific IG account that then can bring ...
Good grief waiting can seem endless sometimes.
This round has been a real test for me.
Even being in year 10 of my experiment ā¦ the ruckus my Mind attempted to hijack my body Authority with was off the chart.
Thankful for having been in experiment for this long because being able to tell it to take an f-ing chill pill was pretty swift ā¦ and my days continued to pass pleasantly.
But boy it tried. š
How that connects to my DBAY life is quite directly.
Perhaps itās my Markets Environment piece that makes it this obvious; when Iām not selling/transacting/preparing to or in service to fulfilling on offers ā¦ Iām in waiting mode for the next interesting enough idea to put forth as such.
Period.
Thatās what really lights me up.
Coming up with and activating yummy win/win offers for the people who recognize me.
Okay I guess eating delicious food is right up there with offer making and win/win transacting.
But as Iām often not the chef (though the waiting period this time has shifted that somewhat in a particular direction) a even that involves ...
