First Etsy Sale!

Last night’s email brought something fun – my first Etsy sale!  Curly Creature 5 is zipping on his double-boxed little way to Cindy in Kentucky.  (Along with a couple business cards and a personal discount code so he can have some friends, of course!)

Happy Holidays and enjoy Cindy!

Curly Creature 5 – heading home!

The Artist’s Bullhorn is now taking beta users!

Ok, here’s something new – The Artist’s Bullhorn is now taking beta users.

Your use of the service will be free – your only form of payment will be some occasional stress due to bugs in the code (please let me know if/when you find any!) and a quick weekly survey to let me know how things are going.

Surf on over to The Artists Bullhorn and sign up! (Its under the “Brag” tab.)

Stoppers in the wild, The Artist’s Bullhorn progress

Display Stand with stoppers and Moo cards

Display Stand with stoppers and Moo cards

Some great progress lately! My wine stoppers are finally in the wild. There are three gracing a favorite restaurant in downtown Burlington, VT (“Blue Cat Cafe“), a gaggle soon to be for sale in a local wine shop (“Dedalus Wines“), and plans for more! Along the way, I received a full batch of stands that look great, including a new design for point-of-sale displays. And a new batch of Moo cards.

I also pulled in all of my Curly Creatures to my Finished Work page. How? Just one click, actually. (Cool.) See below for more.

I’ve also made some huge strides with the website (“The Artist’s Bullhorn“) that’s helping me (and soon to be others too) tell the world about all of these creations. You’re seeing it embedded in my WordPress site when you click on the “Finished Work” tab – all of the product browsing is done real-time using Bullhorn. Behind the scenes though – that’s where most of the magic is happening.

I now have full support for both Etsy and Smugmug – once an item is in Bullhorn, I can post it to its own Smugmug album with just a few clicks. I can then create an Etsy listing (which will of course contain a link to that new album) with another few clicks.

I’ve got some great utilities for managing my Etsy items as well – I can mass renew, change listing states, and see tons of info on all of my items. I can also import items from Etsy straight into Bullhorn, including all of their photos, tags, materials, etc. (That’s how I imported nine items with one click. I still say that’s pretty damn cool…)

What’s next? More debugging, as well as support for Twitter (almost there) and Facebook.