Here I go again. . .photos

I am still working on transferring listings to my newest platform, there is no easy magic button.  There is an import process but it's a process and it does not transfer ALL the listing info and it would just lead to a ton of editing and messing with them after, so one at a time creation is the method I've chosen. 😏   It is slower doing them one at a time but I get to decide what order stuff goes up in, I get to pick and chose which things get transferred, and I get to customize the listings as I create them.  

I've been doing them in groups by sections mostly and there are some things that will not get moved like my "clearance" section on etsy, yeah not putting "clearance" in a brand new shop on a brand new platform. 😉  Basic math says I cannot move everything, my etsy has close to 300 listings and my new goimagine shop has a 250 listing limit currently.  There is a larger plan but it's a 1000 listings which seemed like overkill to me.  ~LOL~ 

So there will be no clearance section, no leather jewelry section, and I am considering ways of re-working listings so that I can combine some things.  In some ways this is the exact opposite of what I do on etsy.  On etsy you cannot put a listing in more than 1 category, so sometimes I have more than 1 listing of something like a necklace bracelet set will have a listing for the set and another listing for the necklace by itself.  Also on etsy people seem to like cheap prices, they are looking for "bargains" so the low price points of the leather and clearance draw attention there but that is not a strategy I want to employ on goimagine.  😇

So as I am approaching the half way mark with moving things over, I have hit a bit of a snag, in that I cannot find some of my older photos. 😏  My etsy shop is 5 years old and way back then I had a different laptop and I often edited my photos on my old desktop.  Now neither of those is really alive anymore or easily accessible at the moment.  ~LOL~  You know life happens. . . I got a new laptop, now I'm not entirely sure where the old one is. . .when we were moving out of NY I think the old desktop computer got gutted so somewhere is a drive in a box but who knows where and then you'd still have to re-install it in something to access it. 😌  

Then I realized that those really old photos were not that great anyway and the backgrounds, yikes!  So I am planning a massive photo shoot to take new updated photos for almost all the earrings and necklaces and basically any listing with photos so old they have weird backgrounds.  😉  Now I just have to shuffle through and sort out my entire chainmaille inventory to make sure everything I plan to list is in stock and make lists and piles of stuff to photograph. 😇  I am also considering trying some photos of my walls of art, where I can take 1 photo of a wall and then put it in multiple listings, since I hung the canvases in groupings by style I think I can get away with that.  

I have plenty of time, I have been applying the "slow and steady" wins the race approach because technically goimagine is still in "beta". 😎  The plan is to have my shop fully stocked in a few weeks and the site's plan is to "launch" with PR and advertising shortly after that, so back to school time-ish.