A few brief updates [mid-April 2021]

  1. Panoramic Worlds has been fast-tracked but despite a lot of work is not yet released. I’d expect it to be available by the end of April 2021 though. See: PanoramicWorlds.com
  2. A massive and sustained ad campaign is moving forward. It includes a few relatively niche banner-ad networks, mainly an additional $40+ ad spend on Comic Ad Network over the next 60 days, which seems to be a natural successor to the defunct “Project Wonderful” in that I’m optimizing my ad spend well enough to get targeted clicks to Etsy, Itch.IO, etc, for about 20-25% the cost that would be involved in a typical FB/Twitter/Google ad campaign of similar effectiveness. I won’t be at all surprised if there are well over a thousand real people who show up to my online venues and sites in that timeframe. This is combined with online forum activity [signature banners and links] and YouTube and social media group comments. Such activity is proving very effective at finding interested [relevant] people who actually want the types of items I have to sell.
  3. I’ve been posting more items on Etsy and that’s going to expand further over the second half of April. For example, these artworks that have begun gaining a bit of attention:
A floral artwork priced at under $10. 12″ by 16″, original and handmade.

Paris street scene, $15 on Etsy. 18″ by 24″ original acrylic, on stretched canvas.

Finally, let’s note that I’ve done a ton of mTurk work over the course of this year so far. As in, $4-5 per hour worked, and a total amount of over $130 so far in 2021.

This -among other improvements – has helped stabilize things and I’m optimistic that there won’t be any further future issues with domains going down, or Etsy shop closures, due to lag in paying related bills.

Watch for some cool things to happen over the rest of 2021!