>spend 4 years apprenticing under master furniture maker learning esoteric black magic japanese joinery and ancient craftsmanship >make master grade table using said secret japanese techniques to absolute perfection >put it for sale for 100 dollars >zero interest on it for 2 years >go on instagram >some 6.5/10 woman in yoga pants puts a S4S piece of poplar wood from Home Depot through a Dewalt planer and then cuts it on a bandsaw into an ugly cutting board >sells them for 500 dollars+has 150k subscribers its not fair i hate this world
You should have priced 500 for the table.
what did you build it in half a day?
>>2970127You should get a woman to post as a front to sell your stuff. Women will buy anything at exorbitant prices to "support" other women.
>>2970127Lol, the cutting board meme.More legitimacy in NFTs.Well, they deserve what they get, I guess.
>>2970127Most of those Instagram ‘sold’ prices are just fake or heavily inflated, the people that make the stuff live off views and subscribers.And even if it was, the e celeb made hype product market is way different from the artisan crafts market and you shouldn’t compare them
>>2970127Why don’t you just start a rock band with your ex wife? The last guy that failed as a furniture maker has a pretty badass studio in Nashville now
You have to find the appropriate market for your product and know how to market it anon. If you aren’t selling your product and it’s high quality, it’s either the way you’re marketing it (advertising, price, listing,etc,) or the market itself. My first experience with sales was taking a product I had made to a Christmas craft fair in a very small town. It was a higher end type product that was basically a handmade square cage made from wood, with a pot and a pothos in the middle. People I knew loved it so I thought it would be a breeze. All the rednecks that walked past my table thought they were asinine and couldn’t resist making comments. Nothing like being asked by a product of incest “a plant in a cage… well wuts it fur?” I wanted to answer “well it’s just an aesthetic item, much like your dual purpose nascar key ring/bottle opener that proudly adorns your stained jeans”. It wasn’t the right market and in the end it was my fault, and a lesson was learned. People that sell shit online are very active on social media, generally. There’s definitely truth to selling the sizzle and not the steak.
Maybe I'm wrong, but most japanese furniture is rather minimalistic, so in the picture it probably looks the same as any normal table. I'm not saying, that it's not well-made, ultra smooth, shiny or whatever, but you can't see these things on photos. Every furniture company photoshops everything, so it looks unbreakable, but you know how it actually is. So why should I as a client trust your picture-table instead of ikeas cheaper picture-table? You don't even seem to have reputation or anything. Try finding some local markets, where people can see and feel the difference themselves. Or some community, that values handcraft, japanese art, antiqes or whatever and maybe try there.
OP if you wish to build career externallyyou must build confidence internallythe wood is high grade but the foundation is wantingseek within yourself that which you avoided by attaining perfect techniquesand master the technique of being
imagine not even doing an epoxy river as an overweight 45 year old bieber dyke
>>2970127Some chick can sell her farts in a jar and used panties for more than I could make in a year of working my ass off. Life isn't fair, but you just gotta keep on keeping on.
>>2970133thisI'd assume something was wrong with your table folded over 500 times
>>29701271. The lower something is priced, the less people will value it. Look at how many people want silver at current prices vs when it was $20/oz.2. No one cares about the table itself, they care about the tables story. You need professional looking media outlining how you climbed the highest mountain in japan to reach the sensei of table making to learn the craft and your journey to becoming a master table maker.3. You have to create a brand for your master crafted tables so plebs will recognize one when they see it and that brand has to be on the table itself.4. Act like you don't want to sell people your tables, make it look like you're doing them a favor by selling it to them. Make then want it, tell them there's a waiting list, have a website with ordering options showing sold out all the time.
>>2970127I think selling small useless things is easier than large usefull things. Everyone has a table already and you only need/have space for one. But you can have 10 cutting boards and actually need none of them.
You probably priced it like someone who went to karate school. Too high.
>>2970127>go on instagram>some 6.5/10 woman in yoga pantsPRESENTATION. You have to aesthetically photograph the pieces for listing. One better if your website is couture looking. Then run Facebook adds by location in the wealthiest parts of your area. Also enter into competitions (state fair ect.) and submit to galleries; you need show pieces to inflate the prices of your base models. You can do it.
>>2970233theres a girl who says all her poops have been pre bought by standing orders
>>2970127>master grade table using said secret japanese techniques to absolute perfectioncan we see it
>>2971817>can we see it>Principal SkinnerNo.
>>2971824wutit probably doesn't exist
>>2971950That's what I was implying shittily with my Principal Skinner meme... Now that I'm at my desktop computer I'll post the real meme.
>>2970127If you can't beat 'em, join 'emUse AI video to replace you with a qt Asian girl in bikini. Hover over the furniture in videos. Charge extra to pee on it. Lemons to lemonade. You're welcome.
>>2970248To #3, there’s a youtube guy that makes walking sticks”, aka he literally just sands sticks, rubs oil on them, and brands them with his initials. But he has an Irish accent and makes videos so one of them sold for over $1000.Get a fake accent and a homey looking shop and make videos.
>>2970127OP I’m gonna fix this issue for you right now>learn about the various AI stuff, the programs for image generation>find a hot bitch about 27 years old some random influencer. Find another. Should be the kind boomers go for, that nice big titty blonde type.>make the AI combine them. Refine it until you have an indistinguishable from reality model. Make hundreds of images of her>have the AI put pics of her in your workshop building shit>make a Facebook and Instagram account, post the pieces for sale on Facebook>have these simp faggots come buy it and when they arrive just tell them you’re her brother and she’s on vacation or some shit right nowThat’s what will sell. That’s why the mid bitch sold hers. Boomers see mid bitch in yoga pants with an okay body they want to buy it to support her. Take advantage of that. Yeah AI is gay, playing into the degeneracy is gay, supporting simping is gay but so are these clowns who would buy some shitty piece of Pinterest project furniture and deluxe themself into thinking it’s a quality piece that they like
>>2974607>Irish accent Someone mentioned earlier in the thread about "women supporting women", well, "Irish" will support "Irish" as well (usually plastic paddies thinking they are buying into something genuinely Irish).
>>2970127>i don't know how to advertiseok yeah, you learnt your craft now you need to know business too, you are trying to do business with a chisel. imagine trying to do woodwork with a dollar bill. same shit. you need to learn a new thing.it is perfectly fair.she is better at advertising than you.
>>2970127just use AI to put a naked woman sitting on it.it'll sell.
>>2976494anime is gay
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>>2970127Do a video with a cat. Millions of morons don't even care what they watch if a cat is present but toxoplasmosis gets views.BTW that's why all my hobbies are mutually supporting DIY so I profit by buying mostly goods and rarely services. Morons know nothing of furniture and only care about cats and cunts. Enjoy your skills which of course translate into home renovation, DIY furniture and DIY workshop facilities. Then since you proved you can do precise work, take up auto mechanics (slashes your lifetime vehicle cost drastically and removes any incentive to waste money on new vehicles) and metalworking which gives the same tactile experience you get with wood (plus you can weld and repair fuckups easily.Every one of my hobbies and interests is mutually supporting and saves me gobs of money. Crafts are obsolete except for personal enjoyment unless you can find a cunt with a cat to front for you. Even then it won't make you a living but that doesn't exclude fun. Precise woodworking is more demanding than welding and most machining so you have the tactile experience of materials to use however you see fit.
