You are most welcome to walk into any of my virtual exhibitions. The url addresses are on my previous blogs.
I’ve just completed the exhibition hall that I’ve included here, which is an exploration of my zazzle earrings, which is to say, I made nothing — I just uploaded my images.
Now, look — it cost me nothing to make those things. I merely uploaded my images, my designs, onto the website, and loaded them onto a variety of objects, priced them to sell, and now sit back to reap the benefits.
Well, not exactly. I’ll probably make another collection in a few minutes. I don’t mean I’ll finish it in a few minutes — I mean I’ll maybe start it in a few minutes.
It takes about 3 hours to load up a kunstmatrix virtual exhibition, and in the case of the earrings, it actually took closer to 5 hours to complete it, because there were problems.
Problems arise as you try things, new things.
It doesn’t matter if you get it right — zazzle offers the customer a way to plaster your image on anything you want to put it on, and you get paid a royalty for its use.
That’s called “passive income”, and if you do enough of it, you don’t have to do anything else but sit back and clip the coupons.
Of course, that’s not what zazzle is built to do.
It offers family things, that family members — uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, moms and dads, grandparents, cousins, second-cousins, friends, classmates, all are guaranteed to want something from the zazzle store that features them.
Then there are the wedding clothes. Well, at least the accessories, and every wedding planner should have zazzle in mind for those last-minute things like the paper cups and napkins and plates.
I make all those and more on zazzle.
Zazzle is really set up for a few people at a time to buy a limited number of family-related items, and mostly they select Walt Disney for their images and designs.
Oh, zazzle is fully licensed and, in fact, most of its business revolves around licensed artwork such as the Disney material that they have available.
Even with all that against it, zazzle offers the opportunity to the clever marketeer to create a line of clothing and accessories that makes it look as if they’ve got an entire factory at their disposal when, in fact, it’s just smart shopping and creating items on zazzle.
It’s not just zazzle — I have ten shops in cafe press, and a huge shop on redbubble, and another on print-all-over-me, or paom.com, and there’s more to come, because I’m always on the lookout for another option.
Not for me, for you. These offerings of mine are intended as guidelines, suggestions of things you might do with this wondrous new internet tool.
Perhaps I should more rightly say, “gadget”, although the big change that’s coming will be the VR world.
Don’t worry about the MetaVerse — it’s already set up to run in the favor of the rich guys and to suppress most of the povery row that populates every new “get rich quick” scheme.
Don’t fall for it. Keep your distance from it.
One of the most appealing parts of the zazzle experience is that I don’t have to deal with the customers — they do.
I don’t have to invoice, pack, ship or perform customer service on failed merch. None of that. They do it all, and send me the check at the end of the accounting quarter.
The thing is, I don’t have to make anything, and if something really takes off and you sell a million of them, you don’t want the headaches of manufacturing, shipping and other problems, believe me you don’t.
You pay zazzle for what they do for you and any retailer will tell you that’s worth almost any money they want to charge.
I’m amazed at some retailers who managed to get through 35-50 years of retail business and they never actually attacked a retail customer no matter what the provocation and there’s always plenty of that to go around.
What I mean is, I really don’t like retail customers, especially the ignorant ones who won’t listen to advice or information about a product, like mutual funds and lemonade stands.
You can blow away an entire family fortune on a lemonade stand that sells ten lemonades on average a day.
That’s not enough to support a household, which is why they banned it in Texan preschools.
Speaking of which, I advise you to pay attention to the gun lobbyists, who plan now to lobby for gun training and equipage to youngsters, allowing kids to bring defensive weapons to school, and arming the teachers and librarians.
Did you ever see a librarian get aggressive with a sidearm?
I recommend reading Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” before reading any more Republican op-eds or attending any Democratic Party Comedy Roasts for Donald Trump.
You might as well keep doing what you’re doing — ignore the messy chaos outside if you can, and if you can’t, write a blog or a book about it.
That’ll get something done. Nobody can ignore a blog.
You might want to, as a first project, assemble a sort of family album of maybe 20-30 photos, blown up pretty big on the wall, with a mat board and frame around each.
You can always delete whatever you’ve got up there, and there’s probably a way to save it if you want to.
I find the system very malleable and easy to use, very instinctive, although there’s one move involving the selection of USD currency that defies my hands — I almost always have to cross them somehow to make the move with the mouse and the keyboard all at once.
So here it is, 4:20 in the morning, and I’m writing a blog about the mouse and keyboard — is this how you want to spend the rest of your life?
I hope so, because that’s what’s probably going to happen.
I also hope that later today nobody strikes a match — it’s already hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Be careful if you’re walking around town today — there are a lot of broken eggs lying about, not to mention the ungawa.
So you’re going to see a number of exhibitions and showrooms from me that lead to sales pages on one website or another.
“Add to Shopping Cart” is our motto and our marketing guiding light.
As you’re creating your own exhibition halls and showrooms, don’t forget that it’s just a way of opening the door, inviting someone to step into your space, look around.
It’s the original intention of browsing, and is window-shopping at its most efficient and effective.
The ultimate online marketing plan is to have a storefront into which someone can go without having to download anything.
You just press the thing, and inside you go!
At some point, they’ll include an avatar and multiplayer access, so you’ll be able to make in-person live real-time sales, just as if you were operating a brick-and-mortar business.
Of course, with things like chocolates, cookies, donuts and such, delivery in your 3D printer is still a long way off.
Teleporting your hot dinner right to your table is the goal of every consumer product maker on the planet, and they’re not far from doing just that.
Okay, that’s enough chit-chat for now.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby