Hey......i guess you need to first see the things, and then decide.......
Any ideas?

hmmm, well, my personal feeling is that "art" is a subjective term. what some people consider art, to others, it's just garbage. i think the best way to handle this is to allow everyone to put their things in the market place, and it if it sells, great, and if not, oh well...
also, don't forget, a lot of great art never sells... so are we going to be about "sales" or about art? not sure... what does everyone else think.

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i think it's a good idea...
P o E... but how do we create the market place??
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Keep in mind Michele that this is the age of the virtual manufacturer. If you have an idea, there is someone out there able to make it and send it, so you don't have to. No stock or inventory, no manufacturing costs up front and no shipping to worry about. Look at two great expampls of on demand: Cafepress.com and Lulu.com, both of which I use.

Now, that doesn't help with hand made items, or items that can't be produced by these companies, but then again, you won't be mass producing items with crammed, hectic work loads either...

The problem you are going to run into every time here in getting the word out is marketing cash. You might have to do what i've done and just start talking...

An idea might be to get your group together and create a single center website, that people can come to, where you find and link all the available on demand source links. Then you all promote the very same place all the time and let the buyers choose for themselves.

Being in the entertainment industry--many of you know someone out there that could crack open a window for you in where to go to get the notice of others...

One of the bonuses of working together instead of individually, is that you have the collective 'credits' that would impress people. Like so:

"Come to DESIGNED BY HOLLYWOOD, where the creative minds of the motion pictures bring productst right to you! These are the inspired individuals behind such pictures as (insert credits here---and they ALL count)! Come to the one place where the greatest talents have joined forces to bring you the very best Hollywood has to offer!"

The more work you have all done individually, the more it will stregthen the whole group.

Just a thought.

hey gang!
Can our Aussiewood team join up as well? We have virtually no support in Australia at all for our creations or anything we do....even our actors clear off to America.

I'm working on a series of international masquerade fantasy and medieval balls for my business, including one based on a medieval comedy I am writing due to be published later this year. Three producers want the script so far.

And we want to launch Celtic Sorcery fashions and jewellery into Hollywood next year.

Jaime is so right when he says it all comes down to money!
If you need money for DBH as a new venture, I have a financer in America I can send you to Michele.

michele! that looks really nice! i like the simple white space and the logo is very hollywood.

now... i don't think it's fair for you to put out all the money for the website hosting, or the hours of design, etc. i'm thinking maybe if you (or whoever maintains the site), either charges like $1 per item to list, or some % or something that would make it more fair...
what does everyone think??
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PS> i'll post some photos of my purses in my photo page.

Rock on!
Great Job Michele!

Nice, clean cut and smooth Michele, well done!

Just got interviewed on a local radio station for my comic book...about 10 min ago. Was nervous as you could be---but wife said it still went well. Hopefully more traffic to add to the 38K+ visitors from last month.

I would like to place a link on my cartoon site for you too, Michele. I can't guarantee anything, especially since it's not the same subject matter---but I think your idea is really fun, so people should see it. You might get trickle from my site...you never know.

Every bit helps.

When they release access from the server again, I'll post a link on my Hot Links page.

Jaime Buckley
www.wantedhero.com

Your site is posted on mine Michele.

Go check out the 'Hot Links' page of the site:
www.wantedhero.com

-Jaime