Seasons over and a retrospective.

WOW - Saturday was the last art fair of the year and yesterday was my first day after fair season.  I felt rather lost.  All of a sudden I had no stress of getting things ready for a new fair.  It was odd.

I made some pretty major changes this year going BIGGER and it seems to have worked.  I made less sales but bigger sales.  I also know I need bigger shows so I'm seriously looking into Art Fair on the Square (or off).  Of course I have to be juried in but from reviews the $500+ price tag seems worth it.
Lake Mills and Fitchburg were my big winners while New Glarus and Sun Prairie will bite the dust.  I'll do Deforest next year after a year off and I would like to try Holy Hill.  DJ and I will go to that one September 21st to check it out.

In the meantime I'm working on my new site (RodMelotte.com) which will have an eCommerce shopping cart.  I've been listening to podcasts from Art Fair Insider and many artists are under the false impression that a website is a gallery and sales will appear magically.  Websites are there for sales, not for pretty pictures.

My feeling is that I would become a Wal Mart so I had resisted but when you get down to it why have a website if the ultimate goal is not for sales.

So that is my art story.
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I got blown out in Fantasy football.  Calvin Johnson sucked!  3 freaking points.  But while my team did 30 points under projections the other team did 30 points OVER!   McCoy? really?  I had him lasy year and I don't think he scores 24 points all year!  He killed me.  AJ Green REALLY killed me with his 28 points (projected 10). 

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I can not longer type - I'm freezing in this building!