Anji Henderson on thu 16 mar 00
<<> kurt and i are off to the farm today. get a load
of wood. inspect winter damage to kilns and equipment.
>>
Is there any one on the list that is near Montgomery
County Maryland and wood Fire's??? In Montgomery
County they have a whole bunch of laws that restrict
most from burning nearly anything... Thank God we can
still BBQ (for now)... I have toooooo much wood on my
property (in the barn). It was a *cough* gift from the
previous tenants. It's up for grabs!!!
Anji
--- mel jacobson wrote:
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> message----------------------------
> i think not much about pricing mugs.
> it is an average that i seek.
>
> i think it is true of most successful crafts people.
> seek an average, then point your work
> there.
>
> for example:
>
> i think i am a forty buck potter.
> i used to be a thirty buck potter...
> but, i point most of my work at forty, and
> i think people will buy about two and a half pots
> per visit. hundred bucks cash, plus a free mug.
> let the customer feel like they got a great deal.
> they
> smile as i load the car for them..(always walk them
> to
> their car.)
>
> it takes me two minutes to throw a forty buck pot.
> about two minutes to glaze and decorate each one.
>
> kurt is a two hundred dollar potter.
> takes him or someone else about ten minutes to make
> a pot, and kurt takes about ten hours to decorate
> each one.
>
> dannon in my view is a hundred buck potter.
> complex work in most cases, yet she gets after it.
>
> dock six gals are sixty buck potters, with hundred
> buck
> fountains.
>
> i think you get the point.
>
> you should not really be interested in what other
> people
> get for their work, work toward your average, then
> educated
> your customers over and over. get them to buy your
> average.
>
> the going price of a wedding gift in america today
> is sixty
> bucks, i like to have a nice variety of sixty buck
> teapots, platters
> and bowls around. and i remind folks about wedding
> gifts. helps my average.
>
> if you have hundreds of items for sale in your shop
> at ten bucks..
> guess what people will buy?
>
> over the long haul, warren mackenzie has done us all
> a favor...
> he has educated the public to buy pots. i would not
> want to
> be a stillwater, minnesota potter, just starting
> out, and trying to
> maintain a hundred buck average, living in warren's
> fifty mile
> circle....may have to adjust the average. i sure
> had to do that over the
> years. but, i
> sell a great many pots....i am in charge of that
> destiny, no one else.
>
> remember, a smart business crafts person is the one
> that has
> no pots left to sell after a sale, does not matter
> so much the price
> of mugs. it's getting rid of them that is
> important, makes the bag
> heavy going to the bank.
>
> mel/mn
>
> kurt and i are off to the farm today. get a load of
> wood.
> inspect winter damage to kilns and equipment. kurt
> can
> see again, so he will boss me around, make me lift
> all
> the heavy stuff.
>
>
>
>
> minnetonka, minnesota, u.s.a
> http://www.pclink.com/melpots (website)
>
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