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Well, I am venturing into the world of candle making, wax melts and soap. To help bring in revenue and get my business out there. It seems like i all ways find out about art shows and stuff after they happen... LOL. Well just starting conversation.
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if any artists and makers out there have time to review my website I'd love concise direct feedback. Also hoping this actually gets to the correct group online. So my website is finecreationsjewelry.com Thank you in advance for taking a moment and your review.
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Beta MemberArtists and Makers08-08-202401:17 PM
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Hi, everyone! Welcome to the Artists & Makers group in Seller Community! Whether you're selling your work or selling items made by others, this is the group for you. You can use this space to ask questions and share tips, knowledge, ideas, and more.
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AdminArtists and Makers07-06-202207:32 PM
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I never really liked the old adage "...work smarter, not harder" LOL! For some reason, it always rang a bit cheap to me and sounded cliché. But I recently made a small change in my production process (shared below) that seems to really be helping with production time and improving quality, so I thought I'd share and also ask all of the other Makers in this community if they have a small but mighty tip you'd consider sharing, that you'd consider "working smarter"... ____________________________________________________________ Calling all Artists/Makers in the group....please share some tips or tricks you've developed in your production process that may help others to think about what small changes they could make to work smarter, and increase their productivity or even decrease their costs. ____________________________________________________________ My personal "working smarter" tip: I work in stained glass and solder, and I have always used the standard soldering iron tip that was included with my basic iron (3/16" wide). It always worked well for me, but I did know that other artists who work on large scale projects will use very large irons and tips to increase working temp, etc. So last week I was needing to replace my solder iron tip and decided to upgrade to a slightly larger tip (1/4"), thinking it might help me to get a smoother bead of solder on my work. (Note: not my project pic, just for reference.) WELL...not only did I get a smoother bead of solder, but the time spent on each of my items was slightly reduced (more even heat distribution). Not a lot but over the course of a full day of soldering, it seemed like I was so much more productive. I don't think I'd go back to a smaller iron tip unless I change the size of my core products. I'd love to hear from other Square Sellers in this Community if they have more "Working Smarter" artist tips...
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Hello Square Artists and Makers Community! We are a Retail Clothing Store that offers custom prints on select garments. We primarily focus on Heat-Transfer printing (Direct to Garment, Direct to Film, Vinyl, etc.) We were looking to get some advice from anyone in a similar field (silkscreen printers, embroiders, etc.) or anyone who manages custom orders. What system (or integrations) works best for your business when it comes to managing incoming orders, and using Square for payments and inventory? We currently handle orders in person, and mostly write details down by hand. We typically ask for a certain amount of days to complete an order (example= 2 days to finish an order of 1-4 garments) We work fast, but we ask for the added time since we have to work on pending orders, and take in new orders. It also gives us a chance to combine orders with similar printing methods so we can prep garments and materials in bigger batches rather than for each individual order. Our current bottleneck is the order management. It is very time consuming getting all the details down for an order, to the point where production needs to stop in order to finalize a new order. The graphic design aspect is also a hurdle since most customers don't have designs ready. We would love to somehow integrate an effective way for customers to create designs on their own, and have them sent over to us ready for printing. We're looking into using Form Builders (like Google Forms, Jot Form, etc) to take orders online, as well as looking at Print Order Software (like Inksoft, Ordant, Printavo, etc.) to help organize the orders and designs we receive. The goal would be for the new potential system to use our existing Square inventory and pricing for placing orders. It would also be great if this could be embedded to a future Square website. If anyone has a system they would like to share, any experience with some of things mentioned, or any suggestions, feel free to reply! Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!
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Beta MemberArtists and Makers06-17-202404:51 PM
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