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2 years ago
(potential trigger warning: I talk about witchcraft, money, spirituality, art, and the web)
I know FA isn't really the place to be talking about spirituality and stuff, or trying to sell my products that are related to spirituality. (Even if the two subjects just happen to overlap for me personally, I understand that others would prefer to keep it separate, and/or not talk about spirituality at all. I respect it.)
Anyway... I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a good platform for promoting my items, as well as selling them. Etsy isn't getting me any views, even though I have products up for sale there. I just don't know if I need to get them in front of more people, or how I'd do that. I know my whole 'crow witch vibe' is a bit of a niche market... but I figure someone might like what I've got. Or be interested enough to say, "Hey, I want to try learning that skill. I'll buy this item to help with that." or, "Oooo, that's some cool art!" or, "I bet that incense smells divine!" etc. etc. It's so difficult to know how to attract people in a digital way.. Because a lot of these are very sensory things, art is visual, and computers are great at translating that. But, scents, feelings, emotions, tingly feelings, heeby-jeebies? Not so much.
It's kinda something I struggle with in digital art, too. Maintaining the feeling of texture in the media. The paper and the paints or inks or whatever I use, they all have their own feelings, textures, methods of movement and display. It's impossible to replicate it digitally. It's not a bad thing. Digital art is great too. :3
It's just that the difference is that one you can interact with, and the other is... well... not real. Which is kind of ironic, considering that more people consider spirituality and witchcraft "not real". lol.
It's a lot like how we live our lives and how culture and media, and ESPECIALLY advertising, affects us. Advertisements are specifically created to draw your attention, sometimes even intentionally annoy you, and they use all sorts of tactics to make you remember them. People say magic isn't real, but advertisements use very similar techniques to magical techniques to change reality and the perception of ourselves and others.
Everything you watch affects you, and modifies you in some small way. Each experience does have an effect on you. If you're conscious of it, you can choose how to respond to it. If you're not conscious of it, and you see it repeatedly, it will still get repeated in your head. Anyway, people use these techniques intentionally, to get the result they want. That's literally what magic is. Using your will and intent to affect reality.
Except that with magic, you're the one setting the rules and pulling the strings. So, you're the one that gets to set the message that gets turned into reality.
Like how orange juice repeatedly got associated with breakfast, health, mornings. Even though in reality, orange juice has nothing to do with any of those things. it's just the mental associations that our brains create. Neural plasticity. Neural pathways connecting. Associations. These things matter. What we associate one thing with, someone else may associate it with something different. But the point of advertising is to try and convince everyone to make the same associations about the subject.
Anyway... back to trying to get attention to products:
I've heard people say to do youtube and tiktok. I've only used tiktok a few times, so I don't know much about it. But youtube sounds like it might be interesting. I don't know though. Would people even be interested in watching videos of explanations of tools and how to use them?
It's also a little aggravating that Etsy and Instagram and FA all have their own requirements for images and settings, and things need to be fiddled with to be compatible between them all. It's so much work to put up a new item everywhere. lol. I wish I knew how to use all these things better. It's not even a "oh, you boomer, you're bad at tech", type thing. It's just that there's so much that's different between them all.
Wow, this seems like it's all over the place.
But yeah. I want a place where I actually can talk about things(both through text and through voice. Because there is a difference.), and where people can talk back. Where people can make vids, sell/buy both digital and physical art and other items.
I dunno... Maybe I'll just have to make it.
I know FA isn't really the place to be talking about spirituality and stuff, or trying to sell my products that are related to spirituality. (Even if the two subjects just happen to overlap for me personally, I understand that others would prefer to keep it separate, and/or not talk about spirituality at all. I respect it.)
Anyway... I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a good platform for promoting my items, as well as selling them. Etsy isn't getting me any views, even though I have products up for sale there. I just don't know if I need to get them in front of more people, or how I'd do that. I know my whole 'crow witch vibe' is a bit of a niche market... but I figure someone might like what I've got. Or be interested enough to say, "Hey, I want to try learning that skill. I'll buy this item to help with that." or, "Oooo, that's some cool art!" or, "I bet that incense smells divine!" etc. etc. It's so difficult to know how to attract people in a digital way.. Because a lot of these are very sensory things, art is visual, and computers are great at translating that. But, scents, feelings, emotions, tingly feelings, heeby-jeebies? Not so much.
It's kinda something I struggle with in digital art, too. Maintaining the feeling of texture in the media. The paper and the paints or inks or whatever I use, they all have their own feelings, textures, methods of movement and display. It's impossible to replicate it digitally. It's not a bad thing. Digital art is great too. :3
It's just that the difference is that one you can interact with, and the other is... well... not real. Which is kind of ironic, considering that more people consider spirituality and witchcraft "not real". lol.
It's a lot like how we live our lives and how culture and media, and ESPECIALLY advertising, affects us. Advertisements are specifically created to draw your attention, sometimes even intentionally annoy you, and they use all sorts of tactics to make you remember them. People say magic isn't real, but advertisements use very similar techniques to magical techniques to change reality and the perception of ourselves and others.
Everything you watch affects you, and modifies you in some small way. Each experience does have an effect on you. If you're conscious of it, you can choose how to respond to it. If you're not conscious of it, and you see it repeatedly, it will still get repeated in your head. Anyway, people use these techniques intentionally, to get the result they want. That's literally what magic is. Using your will and intent to affect reality.
Except that with magic, you're the one setting the rules and pulling the strings. So, you're the one that gets to set the message that gets turned into reality.
Like how orange juice repeatedly got associated with breakfast, health, mornings. Even though in reality, orange juice has nothing to do with any of those things. it's just the mental associations that our brains create. Neural plasticity. Neural pathways connecting. Associations. These things matter. What we associate one thing with, someone else may associate it with something different. But the point of advertising is to try and convince everyone to make the same associations about the subject.
Anyway... back to trying to get attention to products:
I've heard people say to do youtube and tiktok. I've only used tiktok a few times, so I don't know much about it. But youtube sounds like it might be interesting. I don't know though. Would people even be interested in watching videos of explanations of tools and how to use them?
It's also a little aggravating that Etsy and Instagram and FA all have their own requirements for images and settings, and things need to be fiddled with to be compatible between them all. It's so much work to put up a new item everywhere. lol. I wish I knew how to use all these things better. It's not even a "oh, you boomer, you're bad at tech", type thing. It's just that there's so much that's different between them all.
Wow, this seems like it's all over the place.
But yeah. I want a place where I actually can talk about things(both through text and through voice. Because there is a difference.), and where people can talk back. Where people can make vids, sell/buy both digital and physical art and other items.
I dunno... Maybe I'll just have to make it.
