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DasFox

DasFox

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Originally posted by: MrChad
I'll browse the site and see if there's something I like.

Best of luck to you and your family, Das. Keep your spirits up. :)
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Thanks man, I'm just going to work at home and make some sort of Home business, no more working for people, job security is just to difficult to have working for others, I'm tired of it.

ALOHA
 
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RbSX

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Originally posted by: DasFox
Originally posted by: MrChad
I'll browse the site and see if there's something I like.

Best of luck to you and your family, Das. Keep your spirits up. :)
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Thanks man, I'm just going to work at home and make some sort of Home business, no more working for people, job security is just to difficult to have working for others, I'm tired of it.

ALOHA
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Why would the sale of business require your termination?

 
DasFox

DasFox

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Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Originally posted by: DasFox
Originally posted by: MrChad
I'll browse the site and see if there's something I like.

Best of luck to you and your family, Das. Keep your spirits up. :)
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Thanks man, I'm just going to work at home and make some sort of Home business, no more working for people, job security is just to difficult to have working for others, I'm tired of it.

ALOHA
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Why would the sale of business require your termination?
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Well the Internet sales is not doing anything really just a few sales here, and there, so the manager said before they sell it, they can't afford to keep paying me.
 
DasFox

DasFox

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Originally posted by: Mermaidman
I'll take a look for sure, bra! How much revenue does your company need to make to keep ya?

Also--perhaps you should be planning to relocate to the mainland! You can't change the fact that you have THREE children, but you can always move to Omaha Nebraska.


This one looks good! What's the difference between canvas and paper?

And BTW, any discounts for ATOT? :)
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Wow, how much to make to keep you, hmm that's a tough one. I mean to really keep me, and I have a job until the new owners take it, I'm sure we're taking making around $10,000 a month in art sales, which in a good art gallery isn't that much, but I wish I could bring that much in.

What really sucks is the owner has like 3-4 companies he owns on Maui, and I mean BIG business this man is worth millions, but this gallery has never made a profit, so it's not just me, but the entire thing doesn't make money, but the internet side of it, we're lucky if we see $1000 every two months.

Well I'm a PC geek I think I'm going to try and find deals on PC parts to sell on Ebay along with other things. Also I think I'm going to try and buy and sell some cheap cars. There are always people that come to the island, and it doesn't work out so they have to sell are their things and go back to the mainland so you can score deals sometimes on nice cars cheap, and I want to keep an eye on that, and get some and resale them for a few dollars more, but still give someone a nice deal, just that I lucked out with someone just throwing it away, so to speak.

ALOHA
 
DasFox

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Mermaidman, hehe that's funny I was just talking to Carla Crow the other day, she lives on Maui.

Hmm you've never seen a canvas painting before?

Well put it this way canvas is much thicker, and artists paint on it for that look they want. It's more durable and lasts longer, plus just about any decent art work is typically done on canvas.

But then some stuff in like watercolors is just done on a paper.

I like Carla Crow's work, it's cool looking, and it's not expensive either.

Now you see where it says "Edition" that means only that many numbers of that will be sold, so 999 for one, and 150 for the other will be sold in the entire world, no more, so this is know as a, "Limited Edition"

ALOHA
 
Mermaidman

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I was thinking canvas would be better than paper, but noticed the canvas print costs less. I suppose it's due to the number of prints.

How much to ship to the East coast? And you didn't answer my question re: ATOT discount ;)
 
DasFox

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Originally posted by: Mermaidman
I was thinking canvas would be better than paper, but noticed the canvas print costs less. I suppose it's due to the number of prints.

How much to ship to the East coast? And you didn't answer my question re: ATOT discount ;)
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Yeah canvas is better, looks nicer too. Shipping is like $25 I think, I'd have to check tomorrow to make sure. I can only give 10% off.

ALOHA
 
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Hey bro

I'm gonna tell you how I see it.

The new owners are letting you go because you can't make your sales figures -- if you're only selling $1000 every 2 months, then it seems you're not doing your job. You're being paid to make sales on the internet, and you're not meeting that requirement.

Other than begging on ATOT, what other sales methods have you been using during your entire time there? From the way you talk about your job, it seems you just let things sell by chance, and you aren't aggressive with your internet sales at all.

I was a Sales Director for a software company, and this is how I see the situation.

It is unfortunate that you're losing your job, but maybe selling art on the internet isn't your cup of tea. Good luck and I hope you land on your feet quickly.
 
DasFox

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Actually the company hasn't made a profit since it has been in business, this has nothing to do with me.

SaoFeng actually my position wasn't making the sales, or trying to generate them, it's just taking care of them once they come in. I wasn't hired to do marketing or create sales, the company had plans already in place doing marketing, and they where working on other strategies for this.

I guess the easiest way to explain this was, they marketed it, and drove the sales in my direction, and when people made purchases, I then handled that part of it in the company.

I was on the receiving end you could call it, my job was mainly just processing orders, and some other things I did with the site and in the gallery, but I did not do sales in the way you are thinking of it, that wasn't my job.

I did my job, they didn't do their job by hiring a professional for internet marketing, and I tired to tell them this.

This site, Canvas and Clay was a part of that marketing the owner was working on, it is also an art channel in Hawaii on digital cable.

http://www.canvasandclay.com/

I hope you understand when you are a multi million dollar corporation you have a professional marketing team for this, and that is where we failed, and I wasn't hired for marketing to make this work, that was not my job or area of expertise to work in.

Summed up, I was the receiving department in the company to process orders, not generate them.

ALOHA
 
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SaoFeng

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ah ok . :(

well, you should work for yourself, like you stated before. make your own money!
 
DasFox

DasFox

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Originally posted by: SaoFeng
ah ok . :(

well, you should work for yourself, like you stated before. make your own money!
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Yes I will, I'm going to be my own boss and work at home, but in the meantime no point throwing this one away if I can hang onto it a bit longer, so that's why this post.

ALOHA
 
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