but I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. It's probably bad because the items appeal to two entirely different audiences and where I want to go isn't where I started out. The hats and bags appeal to latter day hippies who generally don't want to buy a $250 sweater and the people who buy the sweaters wouldn't go near a hippie store. So, option one is to take all of that stuff out of my shop and just aim for a high-end audience but if I do that my shop will be practically empty and that doesn't look good. Option 2 is to leave them there permanently so that I have some low-priced items and hope that the big spenders aren't turned off by them. Option 3 is to replace them with sweaters as I make them so that the shop at least stays the same size for a while and work on thinking up some lower priced designs that are at least somewhat unique. So far I don't have a single idea for hats, scarves, necklaces or hand warmers that someone isn't already making. Option 4 is to open a second shop for the hippie stuff but that seems like a waste of time since I'm not planning on making any more of them. I don't know - what do you think?
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don't split it, too much energy will be spent promoting. (coming from someone with 3 active shops, the main one having more than a split personality!)
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that your shop offers a wide variety of all sorts of items and that's consistent IMO. You aren't targeting any one specific audience whereas I'm aiming for 2 completely different ones. So far replacing them with sweaters as I go seems like the best idea. There are only a few hats left anyway and the bags are so cheap and easy to make that I'm not worried about never selling them there.
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