{"id":1366,"date":"2008-08-13T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2008-08-13T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:15:20","slug":"the-cobblers-children-have-the-worst-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"The Cobbler&#8217;s Children Have the Worst Shoes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/2760094815\/\" title=\"wantskneedsknitter by plazajen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3290\/2760094815_0960e907dc_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"30\" alt=\"wantskneedsknitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I put a banner ad up on Ravelry, the big internet site for fiber-holics, and have generated a few sales of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wantskneeds.bigcartel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knitter decals<\/a>&#8230;but of course, now that I&#8217;m the client, I&#8217;m a nightmare. To myself.<\/p>\n<p>I did re-word my ad, and JWo has pointed out as people actually see the clings for themselves, they become far more engaged than they do from a picture on a website.<\/p>\n<p>But today? I had a little stroke of brilliance, and did a search for various car enthusiasts on Ravelry, because seriously, there is a group for everyone on that site. And sure enough &#8211; there are MINI Cooper knitters, VW knitters, Volvo knitters and Hybrid knitters.\u00a0 Not that it&#8217;ll guarantee more people will click &amp; buy? But since the most logical place for these clings is your car, might as well TARGET my message to &#8230; people with cars!<\/p>\n<p>Duh. I was happy and sneering at myself for taking four days to come up with that one. Good thing I&#8217;m sharper with my clients &#8211; but I do know that when you&#8217;re close to something, it&#8217;s a lot harder to get perspective!<\/p>\n<p>Now, go be a dear and buy 10 or 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put a banner ad up on Ravelry, the big internet site for fiber-holics, and have generated a few sales of the Knitter decals&#8230;but of course, now that I&#8217;m the client, I&#8217;m a nightmare. To myself. I did re-word my ad, and JWo has pointed out as people actually see the clings for themselves, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,33,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}