It’s Not About the Art

This medium-sized tapestry wholesales for under $80.

It used to be that you’d paint something, put a frame around it and sell it either at a street fair or — if you were lucky and had a following — in a gallery.

The thing is, unless it was a co-op gallery, where the artists take turns running the store and each artist has a small area for display, you only got one show about every three years, so the gallery didn’t burn up its territory, meaning that the sales got fewer and fewer over the months, and then finally dried up altogether.

You have to move to a different town until you wear out your welcome there, too, and that’s why artists don’t stay in one place forever unless they do local landscapes. Continue reading

Empty Nuclear Secret Folders for Sale Cheap!

Empty Top Secret Classified Folders for Sale cheap!

Here’s what you do: find a slogan, meme, phrase, buzzword that is instantly recognizable and is currently trending, hash-tagging and flying about the internet on the social media.

The business team has a “spotter” who watches the news channels and finds a topic o’ the day, and in addition, monitors the hashtags to spot the trending phrases.

Your building team now comes into play, using the formula of the Magic Phrase that you decided to focus on today. Here’s what they should come up with: Continue reading

Silicon Estates is Alive and Well!

Here’s what I’ve been up to tonight — listing some of my many architectural creations in second life.

They can be carried as virtual charms, or actually set up in a second life environment. You can rent them for about $20 a month, often even less, and there’s enough room in there for several villagers.

What I thought might work is to set up a small village, not too many prims, for maybe 20 people, each contributing a dollar a month to the Village Project, under someone’s private ownership, so it can develop commercially.

My thought was a shopping village that’s open only two hours per week, on either Saturday or Sunday.

Goods can be displayed and purchased directly from the in-game environment, and payment is automatic and instantaneous, exchanging lindens for an item that goes into the inventory of the buyer.

The spaces could function in many different ways on a social dynamic level. Commercially, I can’t say as much, but these have functions in the MetaVerse — it can be translated into the metaverse language, or just plain copied.

That’s where good design comes in.

Now, what about making some things and putting them up  on the marketplace, and making a virtual exhibition showroom out of the results?

That’s exactly what I’m doing here as an indication of just one possible direction this could take, and the rest is up to you to figure out.

See You At The Top!!!

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What is IDHHB???

What’s my next move with the virtual exhibition tool that we now have at our disposal? Gosh, you may well ask — I hadn’t a clue when I started out last night, but a number of recent discussions have led me to believe that somebody has yet to spell out exactly what it is we do do.

What I mean is, where are all the American dollars going, other than the normal $500 increase in a normal family’s expenses for food and gasoline this week — next week, it’ll be worse.

I wanted to fill the tank the other day, but there was no loan officer at the gas station when I pulled up.

So what is it we do? What do we offer? Who’s doing this with us? Where is the love? What’s the capital of South Dakota?

That’s the only question for which you actually need the correct answer, and it’s not “Fargo”.

But I haven’t yet told you what it is we do here at The Home, which we lovingly call “IDHHB, Incorporated”. Actually, we refer to it as “the Institute”, which, to a total stranger, sounds even worse.

Well, I’ve been at it all night long, the project of showing what we do, and I’ve been going at it since 7:00 pm last night, all the way to now, and finally have the definitive “greeting space” for the Institute down in concrete, virtual concrete though it may be.

I suppose with the language spoken on today’s newscasts and in both whorehouses of Congress, I might as well have written the title “What the Heck Darn is IDHHB anyway???

When I asked for a rundown of what it is we do and what we offer, I got nothing, so decided to run it down myself, and here’s the result, which was imaginatively titled, “What is IDHHB?”. Actually, that’s a very good question –here’s my answer: Continue reading

The Downloadables

apocalypse background forms new ZOOM game/activity

Here’s an application for the Godd™ Engine — a complete set of ZOOM backgrounds that can be used to create an atmosphere of commonality, meaning that everyone seems to be in more or less the same space.

This can work with Norton Street, too.

What you do is, when you have a good screenshot on your screen, COMPOSE it first, then when it’s EXACTLY right, press the “F4” button on your keyboard. This will send a screenshot to your screenshot file. Continue reading

Yet Another Talk???

I’m painting again, now that there’s a market.

You don’t want to end up with a couple dozen storage units full of unsold art, so I taper off my production when sales are down. These days, I can’t work fast enough to satisfy the marketplace, which is maybe a good thing.

But, yeah, this is going to be yet another talk about eBay and that sort of thing — you know, marketing, entrepreneurship and general media mayhem, and we have to do it soon, before the Second American Civil War breaks out. Even before we start back on subject, I want to mention that THIS is the time to acquire Pre-War coins, and I have plenty for sale.

That having been said, let’s get on with the thing.

First of all, I want to make sure you have an eBay account. I’m not discounting other selling sites, but I’m restricting my selling characteristics to the eBay mode for the moment. We will discuss other means of presenting merchandise to the public.

Forgive me, I meant, of course, “merch”, not “merchandise”. The reason for the shortened word is always the same — spelling is a major obstacle to most people, even college graduates. Continue reading

Can We Talk???

I’ve been waiting for you all this time…where have you been???

If I could grab you by the lapel and show you what I discovered, I would, so consider it done, take it as written that you have been thus accosted, and smile. You’re in luck.

What I found out is that I can tweak the eBay sales system to make it serve the Boddhisattva Vow and at the same time make you a good living, or at least a side-hustle income, like what I bring in.

The thing is, there IS a secret, and nobody knows it — yet. Soon enough, it’ll be all over the place, because nothing succeeds like success. Continue reading

What Short Shall I Make?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkHWZoW8_kE

First of all, you have to be actually AWAKENED and somewhat WILLING to do the work, and clearly, if you’re reading this, you’re ready. I’ll assume so, and give you what I’ve got so far:

  • IT DOESN’T BLOODY MATTER — the substance of your video is entirely immaterial. You can make a short about ANYTHING and, as long as it’s around 15 seconds long, it will do well.
  • YOU CAN’T SCREW IT UP — There’s no way to actually bung-up the works. You can’t possibly make a mistake and if you do, it will be counted as a feature, so get your head out of that particular cloud and just do whatever seems like it might be FUN to do and, yes, I did say “fun” — Fun is an ESSENTIAL part of the “Shorts” exercise.
  • LOOSEN UP — Take it easy on the thinking, and let the EMOTIONAL CENTRUM come up with some whizz-bang doozies for a change.
  • BE REAL — Look for the positive and find the goodness about it, and DON’T focus on yourself, focus on the SUBJECT.

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The List

If you want to promote a book, use the sales page as your target, or “landing” page. These people are NOT verified by me as good, effective or reliable, but I will test them and report back to you on results.

The first on the list, although not necessarily better than the others, is “pronomics”, which promises an interview on iHeart radio — you can listen for yourself to see if if meets your expectations, but the real test is, “did you sell any books???”.

The result of any sales campaign should be checkable by reviewing the increase in sales during the campaign. Continue reading