I don’t know if this business of combining a NFT with some physical item on purchase is going to become a permanent part of marketing and sales, but I’m guessing that it will happen, is already happening, and I’ll explain how it works:
You buy a small painting from my gallery for $100.00 and, at the same time, at the very moment of purchase, I give you a chance to “win” back your money at the NFT sweepstakes by combining any NFT of your choice, or in the case of matched items, the NFT that is “paired” with your physical item that you purchased.
It’s really very simple. Calm your mind and take a breath.
Actually, the NFT does in fact represent a sale, and if it automatically comes with the physical purchase, could conceivably be sold for the sameamount or possibly even more. Of course, it could also sell for a lot less, or be totally worthless, in the end.
That’s the chance you take if you’re buying art as a gamble.
Please don’t ever say the word “investment” when referring to art. It’s impossible to predict human reaction to art over the years, and particularly over the ages. Tastes change, and what was accepted before becomes obscene now, and what was beautiful back then is now ugly.
People — you know I love ’em.
There is such a thing as “Objective Art” which doesn’t change with public taste, but you won’t find that typically on youtube or eBay, although you might catch some of it on my pages on opensea.
Most art swings like a pendulum would if a pendulum could swing good. In short, tastes change, people change, and that priceless Warhol will someday end up in a Salvation Army Thrift Store, because that’s what happens in a jungle — the jungle takes back its own.
That includes both you AND your artwork, but relax, don’t panic — the waiter really doesn’t need to know and remember your name.
Of course, you could scribble it onto the public rest room wall and, hey, as long as you’re in there, take a good look at the art that’s being offered as NFTs.
If you’re a real artist, you’ll be sadly disappointed, but if you have digital skills and not painting skills, you’ll be delighted to learn that virtually anything goes.
That will, if I have anything to say about it, include Objective Prayer NFTs. You can find out more about them by asking at our ZOOM meetings, “Hey, what about OP Nifties???”
I’ve got a campaign of “Objective Prayer” already up on opensea, and more are on the way, with more reference to OP.
I figure that folks will want me to post them there — probably at .01 Eth, about $30 these days, plus if you catch the timing right, you can exercise the trade for far less than $50 in gas fees — 3 am PST on a Tuesday morning and no, I’m not kidding.
There are better times and worse times, but you knew that from your experimental college days, didn’t you? Of course you did.
I’m staying with opensea for the moment — they seem reliable and are easier to figure out in terms of wallets and contracts and all those sorts of complicated thingies — you know, the rocket science of NFT marketing, to which I have zero access, so I’m flying by the proverbial seat of my pants, as it were.
Okay, so what are we doing here today, right now?
Well I, for one, am trying to get across what I’m up to at the moment regarding the online opportunities that are ahead of us, in this cryptocurrency environment of the New Age.
No matter what else happens, coins will vanish from the human landscape. They have to, just because metal is getting scarce, and plastic won’t do for money.
The sheer cost of making coinage and handling coins and replacing coins and spotting counterfeit coins and creating vending machines to process coins is going to go through the roof, and people want convenience, so the “HOT” button on the cellphone is going to be the standard of living from now on until the internet gets hacked down, which will happen at some point.
If I could remember exactly when that is, I could collect bets from every bookie in town, but I can’t predict the timing, just that it will happen.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to predict the internet crash. It’s under constant attack and those attacks will continue and increase in scale and intensity until they break the internet and bring it down to a crashing halt.
That’s when we step in with our full-color 1923 chromolith calendars and our bubble gum sports cards, and become instant billionaires overnight. Of course, there’s now nothing on which to spend it, but that’s another issue entirely.
Okay, so what’s the deal of the century?
It’s simply to buy an object for $100 and at the time time get a NFT with the offering price at $100, same as the physical item, so the token comes with it, see?
Then you can keep the token and hope it goes up in value significantly, or you can try — I do stress the word “try” — to sell it for the same or higher price — good luck on that one right now, with the gas fees at around USD $500 per transaction, but that will change, perhaps for the better, maybe for the worse.
Anything’s possible, which is why I call it gambling, if you’re in it for the money, so the simple solution is to not play it for the money, which leaves art or spirit or spiritual art, if you’re so inclined.
Okay, so first of all, I insert Blessings into each NFT, in the UNLOCKABLE section, along with the IDHHB website address, in case they want to contact us for any reason, such as help.
Along with Blessings, I include some magical triggers that enable higher level and angelic contact and life-assistance. Also included is a piece of Objective Art that AUTOMATICALLY invokes Objective Prayer.
It doesn’t get any better than that, but in addition, all this is connected to your cellphone, making it literally a Prayer Wheel & Dorje combo, which is all to the good.
Each and every NFT I mint has operating factors that generate goodness and dampen badness.
In a sense, when you get BOTH the physical item AND the NFT, you’re getting what could be considered a rebate, although not a cash-rebate, but a value rebate.
If you’ve chosen your NFT wisely, it will bring good fortune to you — especially if it’s both spiritually effective AND valued highly by others.
Wait until you see reports of miraculous things as these NFTs start to appear among the human population, and it’s not just my NFTs that have that effect — there are a few conscious NFT makers out there, most of whom have reasonable prices like some of mine.
My higher prices are there not as indicators of actual value, but of opportunities for donors to make a serious donation and at the same time possibly benefit in some way, either spiritual, or financial — or both.
Now, how about becoming one of those conscious NFT makers?
Get with us on our ZOOM chats every morning at 6:30 am PST and learn how YOU can become the world’s richest spiritual seeker without having a penny to your name.
Ethereum is currently being smashed down temporarily by Elon Musk, but it won’t and can’t go on forever — you can’t hold back the tide, but go tell that to the Emperor.
So when the gas fees get down to reasonable levels, I invite you to arrange on ZOOM with me a transfer of tangibles along with a NFT for your next major purchase.
I will also mint NFTs if you buy any major painting of mine, with the image of the painting you bought, plus the certificates and photo-evidence and video-evidentiary proofs.
There’s nothing like that in the art industry now, but it’s already here, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t get a photo of the artist with the piece, plus the Certificate of Authenticity — the COA — and a photo of the piece just by itself, with permission for the owner of the NFT to make any size print from it for their own personal use, not for resale.
Wow, there’s nothing more you need to market this stuff except for display — you can show your NFTs either as images in digital display frames, or online, either on your web page or in social media or on opensea.
You don’t really have the choice of gallery showings, and you wouldn’t want them. Who has paintings on the wall to show house guests in 2021?
Right, nobody, including you.
So you show your art collection on ZOOM or in social media video clips or on your website or in an email enclosure, or a myriad of other ways, but it’s all virtual, all digital, all online.
There really isn’t a market now for wall art, but there is a powerful market for NFTs, if you know how to make them and how to generate sales.
Sales of NFTs? That’s easy. It’s all in your social media marketing sphere. As far out as you can get is how many sales you’ll have.
The sheer number of followers or subscribers you have will determine the success level of your NFT art sales campaign.
If you hardly know anyone, you might make a sale or two, but you’ll for sure eventually drop out, because there’s no way up from there.
You’re entirely dependent on your social network, and if you have none, you’ll have to build it, and that will take time or money or both, depending on how dense or sharp you are.
It’s no use to sucker into the many offers you’ll get to connect you up with a constant stream of buying traffic, but that won’t ever happen.
It might be a signal for you to note that ALL of the offers come from profoundly disadvantaged countries.
They are scams designed to provide passive income, and you’ll get nowhere and it will cost you a small fortune to find that out.
So what can you do right now?
Well, at the moment, unless you already have an INITIALIZED account on opensea, there’s nothing you can do to actually try to SELL your minted opensea NFTs.
But…there IS something you can do while you’re waiting. You can mint NFTs to your heart’s content, keeping in mind that once made, they can’t easily be erased, and it costs to delete them, but not to mint them.
What I did at first was to open a gallery and fill it with NFTs, experimenting around to find the right combinations and of course, also a few wrong ones, which I had to leave up, but am selling at a bargain price because the picture is sideways.
That happens once in a while, and I, for one, am unable to predict it. Sideways photos are a result of improper handling, rotating the image not in photoshop or paint — bad idea.
I also want to remind you that we mint HARDWARE NFT WALLET CARDS which are my own invention, and which are even more secure than ordinary NFTs, so there!
If you want a NFT for your own sales issue, of any of my artwork, I can make a card that functions somewhat like the Blessings Card, but it’s been created to your order.
I won’t use certain artwork, but most of it will be available for Wallet Cards — just ask me for it, and I’ll do my best to accommodate your request.
I can sell finished full-color large capacity wallet cards with my portfolio scrapbooks stuffed inside, along with audio or video clips, at 10 for $390.00 — $39 apiece, which is the same as the empty price, which means that you only pay for the hardware.
The more you order, the less they’ll cost, down to $10 apiece in orders of 250 units or more, but that’s the lowest I can arrange.
Seriously, those are great giveaways, and if you sell multiples, the Blessings will spread faster as the circle expands outward.
Join me on this journey to spread Blessings and Joy around the world.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby