hi stubborn - thanks so much for your "business" advice - i will take all i can get. i am really new at this, in the sense that i know what i did before trying to sell my work, was not the right way to go about it, and i'm trying to find out now how i can balance those things that you talk about better.
this knitting job may just be the way for me to do it. i get to design my own stuff - and as long as she likes it, she's basically selling forward my work, so it's much better than i thought it might be. and basically falls under what you said: I suggest focusing on developing outlets that minimize the time you spend doing sales
you are right about pricing for wholesale and i will focus on that. she's given me her price range - so i am designing with a view to that - really in how many mins it takes me to make a piece at the price she is paying so i pay myself a specific x$'s per hour!
as for the topic at hand - i know it sounded like i was waiting to respond to h and focusing on him. it wasn't quite what i meant, though. joann told me to watch carefully how he responds to everything i do - if he pulls back then back off and figure out what i did and stop doing that immediately. if he seems more open then keep doing what i was doing.
my focus is at the same time really on me, in the sense that i am not going up and down depending on where he's at, as much - just inspecting where he's at and then backing off a bit or being more friendly. does that make sense?
she also told me to mirror him when it is a positive behavior form him
thanks for stopping in - i look forward to your "visits" and when you don't post for a while, i wonder how you are doing
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