I was selling my original work on ebay but I never liked the overall feel of ebay. However, I really like the auction style of ebay and how it gives people the opportunity to bid on an item and determine the market value for the piece. With Etsy, I’m pretty much taking wild guesses as to how popular an image will be and trying to figure out an appropriate price. However, Etsy is a much better overall fit for me. FALL 2012
What was the greatest challenge you faced during your first year in business? There was a lot of pressure to produce original pieces. I would get a lot of emails asking how to get my original work and so I ran a sweatshop style business for the first year or two. After a while I realized that I wasn’t really producing what I wanted to and so I slowed down and came to a nice steady crawl. I was very