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 ...
Thought this thread was fascinating - hereās the original comment thread:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18c28tZhA6/?mibextid=wwXIfr
While the email is just a waste of everyoneās time, the difference in approaches and having HD awareness now ā¦
Iām reading the comments with that filter ā¦ undefined ego, defined ego (or healthy undefined ego), undefined solar plexus ā are the top three that feel glaring to me.
Money is such an easy place to notice these things.
My guess is that the writer of the email is undefined ego and defined solar plexusā¦ oh and also a projector š¤
You have any takeaways?
Of course, I would do best to sleep on making any moves first if it were sent to me - because emotional Authority š¤
This dude helped form part of my copywriting foundation both directly and through other people I learned from who learned from him -
āHow can a letter riddled with typos make $24,000 from one Facebook post?
So one time Frank Kern posted to his Facebook that my Book of Secrets sales page (new at the time) was the best he'd read in a long, long time.
#truestory
Yet, it was riddled with typos. OMG his Facebook blew up with people denouncing the letter. Whilst it sold $24,000 from his post, best as I can recall.
My Amazing Formula sales letter had typos I didn't fix for 3 years. I don't have all the numbers. But taking into account the back end, I'd imagine it sold a million or close to it in that time period.
My rule of thumb is that if it's raining money, don't touch it. You screw more stuff up by "fixing it" than you do leaving it alone.
My wife informs me the same rule of thumb doesn't apply round the house!
I'm not advocating typos. I advocate speed over perfection.
So yesterday an old friend made a comment that my post couldn't have been made by a.i.
Because. of. ...
Hahahaha, I just spotted this question in an art group and thought it was so appropriate for understanding āvalueā at a foundation level.
I run into so many people who would happily eat up my day and be ever so thankful once theyāre done. š
Shocker they often also donāt consider/value their own time and energy either.
Of course thereās other important value to consider beyond this trading time thing ā¦ :)
The original post is in the screenshot below šš½
And hereās one commenter - sounds like a bitter projector š
I asked ChatGPT for some tactful responses, and then I asked, "Now make them snarky." The snarky responses are much more fun, so I thought I'd share them here. Lol!
"Wow, itās such an honor to be chosen as your free labor! Sadly, my bills donāt have the same level of admiration for me, so Iāll need to charge my regular rates."
"Oh, sure! Let me just check if the gas station will fill my tank for free because weāre such good friends. Spoiler ...
