Do What You Love
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photo credit: LuciaRM+Latin@^!^~Heart_Breaker~^!^
If you’re going to spend countless hours creating designs, tagging, uploading, describing, promoting, blah, blah, blah, you’d better spend that time creating something that you will be proud of and enjoy talking about.
When the big politics craze hit Cafepress last year, I decided that I was going to create a political shop and make tons of money.
Pffffftttttt…. yeah…. right….. and I’m more gor-gee-mous than Pamela Anderson, too! 
*whispers* I hate politics….. with a passion….. to my core….. 
Don’t slap me! I stay abreast of the issues that are most important to me and vote accordingly…. but talking about politics… bores…. me… to….. slee….. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
*snort* Ooooooo…. sorry….. dozed off there…..
So, yeah…. I go off on this designing tangent…. create a bunch of political designs…. not toooooo awful….
Uploaded the precious little babies….
Then…. came….. the…. descriptions….. annnndddddd…..
My political shop lasted about as long as a f@rt in a tornado!
I think I got through 6 or 7 before I found myself on the verge of tears. It just wasn’t worth it to me. I hid the ones I already had up so that customers could still find them in the marketplace. Then I changed the name of the shop and did something I liked instead.
So heed my warning…. doing something because you think it is going to be lucrative is not always the best route. If you are opening a t-shirt or gift shop, make sure it is something that you will still like to design for after being in business for a year…. or two…. or… meh… you get the picture…..
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March 19th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
[...] Decide on a niche- First of all, a niche needs to be something that you like. My extremely short-lived political shop is testament to that. If you’re going to design and create a shop, it should be something [...]