Bead Chat Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 29

groups. I sell most of my work in my own Facebook group. I do have a business page as well where I post regularly, but there are many advantages to selling my work in the group rather than directly from my business page. Instead of listing new work every day I tend to wait until I have enough ready to do a larger sale, and the group format makes that very easy. To my surprise, amusement, and pleasure, it’s become a fun, welcoming, (and sometimes REALLY silly) place to sell beads. I alternate between Facebook sales and Etsy updates to try to cover all the bases. I tend to list my newer, more experimental work on Etsy, and the things my customers have loved and asked to see more of, I save for the auctions. That’s not a hard and fast rule but in general, it seems to work pretty well. I’m in a good place about the direction my business is going and all the great things that have happened in the past year but I’m always thinking about how to grow and improve. Recently I’ve started to set more concrete, specific goals for myself, and I find it helps a lot to think not only in terms of what I’ll be doing next week, but also in three months, 6 months, or a year. creativebeadchat.com G SONTAG ~ UGLIBEADS JULIE WONG SONTAG ~ UGLIBEADS JULIE WONG SONTAG ~ UGLIBEADS JULIE WONG SONTAG ~ UG