Just a break. Nothing Broken.

Took a few days off here to work on a new piece. I wanted to collect my thoughts. Get some perspective on how things are working or not working. Noticed since the official opening, I’ve had even less visitors. No one who’s even gone past the home page which makes me think it’s just AI bots or something.

Yeah. You’re right. I’m having a lot of self-doubts. I’m great at being patient with other people’s projects, but no so great with my own. Letting things happen naturally, pick up steam… these things leave room in me for my harsh critical voice to come in. You know the one. Telling me that I didn’t do this thing right. That no one cares what your art is really like. That I’m going to fail horribly at this.

It’s no help to look at marketing trends and see that I’m basically doing everything single thing wrong to convert you into a customer. You know, the no one who’s looked at this journal. First off, I’ve tucked it away so it’s not exactly the first stop on the site. That’s fine, but then you don’t know about the behind the scenes going on.

For that, I’m happy because I’m not much of a networker. I always feel like my artwork says enough. It’s just convincing myself that it’s actually good enough is the trick.

I know I’m doing this all kinda wrong. I’m not slamming subscriptions in your face, and there’s not a ton of material up here yet. I do believe this will all continue growing and you’ll come back to check me out some more. I know I don’t have an immediate storefront, and I’m probably not coming up in many SEO hits just yet. Again, wanting to build it up. I even wanted to put up some fliers locally to direct some traffic to my site, but found out there’s potential fines for putting them up in town. (Although I don’t see anyone enforcing anything.)

Basically, I’m sending the message that I’m not up to speed with all the modern selling methods online. It’s not really true. I’m just… I’m just tired of having a marketing formula pressed on everyone to be successful. I’m not trying to prove anything, but I think people are tired of being forced into subscribing to products rather than having something they can physically print out in their hands.

I’m also being stupid thinking that every person who wants some of my art will pay and not share with others. I’m not naive. I know this will happen. Again, I’m just starting this ball rolling. I’m not trying to control everything. I guess I’m letting the market discover me, instead of me creating the market.

So we’ll see how this goes. I hope if you make it this far, you can share this site with your friends. I’m working on new material for each month. I hope that will speak to ‘my market’ better than my brand.