A Day to Work -Switching Directions

I am still working on getting my things on Daily Paintworks, Etsy and Ebay. It looks like it may take awhile. I have prints from my big event that I want to have online somewhere. When I do have a sale  then I can alter my quantity and take them with.

We got socked! We had a big snowstorm yesterday through overnight. We went out shoveling a couple of times and when we went to bed the decks, driveway and sidewalks were clear. This morning there was another 3" of  snow. I am not sure what we really got totally - 11-12"?  I think that maybe yesterday it was 8-9" but not sure how they count that heavy wet stuff.. That was on the bottom and toward afternoon the light and fluffy stuff came. I wonder if the wet stuff compressed and it would have counted for more. All I know is that it is a lot of snow! While shoveling yesterday you couldn't help be struck by the beauty of the snow blanketing the trees and bushes. I would have liked to take some photographs but like usual here - it was too gray. This afternoon the sun is supposed to be out and I will have to get some pictures before it gets too heavy and drop. Now it looks like a wonderland. I wouldn't feel this way if it were March or April and being totally sick of winter by then, but we haven't gotten much so far this year so it is a treat.

So, I am going back to listing my prints and whatever else I can between shoveling bouts. The photos originally were from when I had the prints made. I am going back and changing the dpi lower. I have read a lot of things online about people stealing designs. I can do a watermark too but those sound like they can be removed. I can disable the right click on my photos on some websites but they can do a screen shot. I guess if I lower the dpi and make sure my name is on the image somewhere that  is the best I can do.

I have had a website a couple of times and I have had my Ebay store since 2006? and Etsy store since 2012. I haven't been good at promoting anything but have still had sales - but only on Ebay and Etsy. Since 2012 I have been selling my mother-in-law's paper dolls and vintage sheet music. I always meant these stores to be for my art. Now I am adding them but wonder if I should have a separate art store for each. Time will tell and sales will tell too.

There are a lot of things I think about with promotion, sales, seo etc. Hopefully I can discover some of these things along the way and then share them with you.