▼ Japan's largest handmade and handcrafted mail order site "minne" by GMO Pepabo https://bit.ly/3qIP90y ▼ For those who want to sell handmade works online https://bit.ly/3tJndeV "Good morning! minne LAB" is an official live broadcast delivered by minne to artists who are working on crafts. Only the question corner is extracted from the contents of the broadcast on the minne LAB Instagram account and archived and distributed on YouTube. / minne_lab If you want to see the whole broadcast, please take a look at the Instagram live ♪ We broadcast mainly every Monday and Thursday. * * 18th questioner: Anonymous artist Hello, I've been repeating the first to 14th episodes in order all day long like a radio while I'm working every day. I listen to the lines so much that I memorize them, and I correct any parts that apply to me as I go along. My problem is that I've been unpaid for five years and have no profits. According to the profit calculation in the Minne Study Book, I need to price each one at over 10,000 yen to make a profit. Right now, I look at the prices of people in the same genre as me, and I price them based on what I would decide on immediately. I've raised the prices a little over the past five years, but there's no point in making them because I'm not making any profit in the first place. It takes more than 6 to 8 hours to make one piece. (The embroidery alone takes 4 to 6 hours.) If it's a tedious item, it takes even more, and I can't make many of them. The more tedious the item is and the more popular it is, the more I get requests to resell it. Right now, I don't display items that are difficult to make, even if they are popular. I think it's a loss of opportunity, but even if they sell, there's no profit, so there's no loss. I've missed many opportunities. If I price each one at 10,000 yen, I think that repeat customers will leave, and I don't think it's worth paying that much. (I'm confident that I make cute things, but I don't know whether they're valuable because it's up to the buyer to decide.) Should I be satisfied with just having people who buy them, even if I don't make a profit? It's a selfish request that I don't make a profit, but I don't want to make it 10,000 yen. How do you think I can keep my spirits up? * * "Good morning! minne LAB" is always looking for artists' concerns. Questions can be submitted anonymously. ▼Click here for the question form: https://bit.ly/3bDCtOy ▼Details of this project: We will answer artists' concerns on the official "minne LAB" Instagram Live: https://note.minne.com/n/nc0402a39dcf5 On Twitter, with the hashtags "#GoodmorningLab" and "#Learnwithminne", we have received various artists' comments on the video and records of trial and error after watching the video, so please take a look. * * "I can't take good photos" "I'm worried about pricing" ... To solve the problems of handmade artists, minne has prepared a reading content called "minne Study Notebook". ▼minne Study Notebook https://note.minne.com/m/mc1379d2d49ba ▼Minne's author activity advisor Wada Mao's book "Minne Teaches You the Basics of Selling" has been very well received since its release in April 2019, and is currently in its third reprint! It can be purchased at bookstores nationwide and on Amazon. https://amzn.to/2NxTNd9 ●minne LAB twitter: /minne_lab ●minne LAB Instagram: /minne_lab ●Author activity advisor Wada's twitter: /ma0_k