Post by HueWood by Miran on Mar 15, 2015 7:13:50 GMT -5
Enough of that, and time to get to work.
I have NEVER made a proper banner. For some reason I have never quite pinned down what would work best for me. My shop took a huge change when my partner (bitch-in-law, soon to be ex) up and quit and left me high and dry on her part of our joint venture. Since then I have worked on finding my own voice and style.
I have been learning a lot since restarting things back alone in October, but I haven't nailed down my target audience or my branding. Perhaps a few new eyes can see what I cannot.
I want to keep the shop name the same, but would change it if it is really not working.
The hummingbird logo and quote is for my mother, who we lost 2 years ago and gave me my love of creating and nature. I purchased a tiny hummingbird metal stamp that I would like to start using and attaching a tiny metal tag on all my creations.
I try to incorporate wire or metal in all my products and most items are custom made to the customer's choices (within a few limits of course)
I like to personalize my creations.
The biggest sellers in my etsy shop are the wood birthday signs with the hand stamped name tags, and the name necklaces.
So, if anyone would care to take a look at my etsy store, the photos and products and give me an overall feeling of what you think I am trying to do, it would help me greatly in coming up with a banner.
Thanks so much,
www.etsy.com/shop/gibsongirlsgonewired
If you wanted to change your shop name, and I'm not saying you should, you could just shorten it to "GirlGoneWired" if you wanted to keep the same general theme. And it's not so different from what you have now that it would be confusing to those who are already following you.
As for photos, I had a tremendously hard time photographing shiny metals like silver. Until I discovered mid-gray backgrounds. With white or black they were either too dark with no detail or blown out and over-exposed, With mid-gray, I almost never need to edit my photos other than to crop them. So, you might want to find a piece of medium gray scrapbook paper and give that a try for some of your jewelry.