In response to Sneaky Burrito.
Right? I used to have to do website research as part of my last eCommerce job and my coworkers thought I was just playing around on the internet bc so many of the sites I'd visit would play music. CNN is no better if you don't already have video auto-play turned off.
02:46 PM - Apr 15, 2023
In response to Sneaky Burrito.
Oh that bugs me too! Up there with playing music when the site loads. I will admit that for newsletter popups, sometimes it is a coding issue that can be hard to fix, especially for solo entrepreneurs who might not have that skill, but the full-size graphics and tiny X to close has to stop.
02:39 PM - Apr 15, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
as anyone who wears a size 8 ring or above can tell you, it is rare to find rings in your size "off the rack" so to speak. My plea to jewelry stores, designers doing shows and anyone working DTC is to please widen the selection of your sample sizes - inclusivity is good for business. End🧵
03:06 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Think of it this way - a size 6 ring can be tried on by anyone who wears a size 6 AND anyone who wears a size below a 6. That's not actually a very wide market sample. But a size 8? or a 9? Well now that can be tried on by an even wider audience. And you might even make the sale that day because🧵
03:04 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
VS and other clothing brands were self-selecting their numbers and saying "See! No one buys the larger sizes! It's not a strong market!" And jewelry designers do the same. If you go to a show and only have size 6, you are very likely missing out on a wider market 🧵
03:02 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
When in reality, you are influencing your own numbers by not offering other sample sizes. It's like when Victoria's Secret wouldn't offer larger cup sizes, or when *gestures at most of the fashion industry* clothing designers only offered a short range of sizes.🧵
02:59 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Put another way, if someone wears a size 9 ring, but your samples are only a size 6, then you've left this potential consumer out of the shopping process because they can't even try it on. They skip buying a ring entirely and you think "The average ring size is a 6 because no one buys a size 9🧵
02:58 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
"Standard size" for rings is pretty meaningless. I might even argue that we don't truly know average ring sizes, because some designers' obsessions with having a sample size leave out many consumers. 🧵
02:56 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Myron Clifton.
If laughing at "high-res photos of Uranus" is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
06:36 PM - Apr 13, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Like, they drive up the prices, then your electronics get more expensive, jewelry gets more expensive, and designers turn to cheaper materials so quality gets worse and illicit and polluting gold mining goes up bc the mining process gets more lucrative. But cool story bro that yr money is safe.
04:38 PM - Apr 13, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Citation -wri.org/insights/covid-19-rising-gold-prices-and-illegal-mining-threaten-indigenous-lands-amazon
02:35 PM - Apr 13, 2023
In response to Alexandra Lucio.
It looks like it could be fun, but every time I open it is walls of texts I can't find my way. I have decided to be at peace about this and accept that it is not for me.
05:49 PM - Apr 12, 2023
In response to Phil Schnyder.
Thank you! I feel like I keep shouting this and someday people will hear it when they need it.
01:35 PM - Apr 12, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Anyway, I have been shouting this with love for a while now, and I wrote this a few years ago when all of the Meta platforms went dark for hours and lots of creatives realized that they didn't have a backup.
https://www.sharonz-consul...
https://www.sharonz-consul...
01:34 PM - Apr 12, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
I remember when Meta platforms were actually great and that you could leverage them for your business. And I am not saying "Don't use social media!" I'm saying that your business deserves to be multi-faceted so it can withstand any one of these platforms shitting the bed - a la the bird app 3/?
01:32 PM - Apr 12, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
And I do say this with a lot of love! Because I do love some of these platforms. I love that it's a way for us to connect. And also, lots of these platforms control what your followers see (not Spoutible as far as I can tell) by inserting an algorithm between you and your audience. 2/?
01:28 PM - Apr 12, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Ok, I am not clear that my above link was ya, know, linking, so here it is again. https://www.sharonz-consul...
04:42 PM - Apr 11, 2023
In response to RA.
Gen X here and it's been happening for so so long. They are working overtime to curb and end voting rights and it's been their game plan forever.
08:48 PM - Apr 06, 2023
In response to (((Pro-Choice Morgana))).
Chag pesach sameach to us, I guess?
02:49 PM - Apr 06, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
I write a jewelry-maker and jewelry-consumer blog and I received blog pitches for:
-Dog rescues
-Landscape architecture
-Tiny homes
-ADUs
-Fences
-Plumbing
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that all of those sales lead folks who wrote the pitches had terrible conversion rates.
-Dog rescues
-Landscape architecture
-Tiny homes
-ADUs
-Fences
-Plumbing
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that all of those sales lead folks who wrote the pitches had terrible conversion rates.
09:45 PM - Apr 05, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
Becasue it is worth noting that there are lots of people who specifically do not benefit from it since higher gold prices are often tied to increases in dangerous and harmful forms of illicit gold mining and that helps no one.
06:50 PM - Apr 05, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
I wrote this! And I'm so glad that I could feature initiatives that i think you should know about. Have questions? drop it into the comments on the post.
https://www.sustainably-ch...
https://www.sustainably-ch...
04:55 PM - Apr 05, 2023
In response to David Adam Edelstein.
Truly a spectacle! Have definitely double checked to make sure that I am not in the landslide danger zone.
07:32 PM - Apr 04, 2023
In response to Judith HeartSong.
It's so wild! I live on bedrocka nd barely notice anything below a 5.0, but was on backfill one time for a 4.5 and it was way scarier.
07:16 PM - Apr 04, 2023
In response to Nidhi Chanani.
This is thin mint erasure (tho I do love samoas too)
07:15 PM - Apr 04, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
I mean, tbf, there is a lot about digital design, UX/UI and systems from marketing/advertising to payment systems that had too many cooks in the kitchen and definitely not any input from the actual people who would need to use it, but some systems are worse than others and #Meta is one of them
03:42 PM - Apr 04, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
removing seating from a lot of it's locations to curb their use by houseless people. You aren't here to help your employees, and now you aren't here to help your customers, so the question becomes who are you helping? Fin Rant
04:22 PM - Apr 03, 2023
In response to Sharon Zimmerman.
providing decent jobs with good pay without penalizing both their employees and their customers. Because right now I have to say, it feels like many companies are distinctly unfriendly and outright hostile towards both their employees and their customers. Like Starbucks union busting while also 7/?
04:21 PM - Apr 03, 2023
