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Hi guys, it’s Rhonda and in this video we are going to talk about creating our lead magnet or our freebie funnel, our opt-in form, whatever you want to call it, to entice people to sign up for our mailing list. Okay? You know, I preach how important it is to have a list because it is basically the only thing you truly truly own when it comes to your business. Um, if you’re selling on platforms like Etsy and you’re depending on maybe social media for your traffic and things like that, you know, Etsy can shut you down tomorrow. The algorithms can change and you know, then your posts on social media aren’t getting out like they used to. But if you are building a list, if you are building a mailing list, these are your people. The this is your audience. It’s yours 100%. You can export it and save it and it doesn’t matter what mailing list platform you’re using, what newsletter system you’re using, that list belongs to you no matter what. Okay? So, I figured today we would do a video showing you how to create uh your landing page. And uh I’m going to talk about what I’ve created for my freebie bundle. What you create is going to be completely different. It’s going to be based on the products you sell in your shop. I’m just using uh what I make as an example. Okay? You take what I give you and use it for um products that you think your customers would be interested in. Something that would entice them to give you their name and email in exchange for these free files or these free products. Okay. So, I’m starting out and I’m here inside of KD. And what I have done because I sell SVG files for laser engraving and cutting is I’ve created a bundle of five uh wildlife themed SVG designs. Okay. Now, I’ve already created them here. I’m not going to uh go through all that because like I said, what you create for your uh list for your customers is going to be completely different than what I’ve created for mine. Just know this part is 100% personal. You create what you think your customers are going to like. If you don’t know what to create, you can always go to Claude or Chat GPT and ask what you should create. you know, tell them what tell the uh LLM what it is you make, who your customers are, and ask it for ideas for freebies. So, I sell SVG cut files for laser engraving artists and crafters. I’m building a lead funnel. What are some ideas for freebies that I can offer in exchange for signing up for my list? Okay? And just ask it that. Tell it what you sell and ask. And I don’t know what in the tarnation is wrong with Claude tonight. It is just not working properly. So, I am going to use chat GPT this evening and we’ll go there. Okay. Let’s ask chatbt. I sell digital files for laser engraving crafters. Give me some ideas for freebies that I can give them in exchange for signing up for my mailing list. Okay, so that’s all I did. told it what I sell and asked Chad GPT for some ideas. So, right here it’s giving me mini laser cut file bundle. Perfect. That’s what I’m doing. I am doing five files, but it’s giving me other ideas, too. Laser file sizing guide, um, a cheat sheet with common product sizes for earrings, signs, tags, pricing calculator sheet, craft fair prep checklist, things like that. So, there’s a lot of different options here, but I am going with the first one, the mini laser cut file bundle. All right. And that’s what I’ve did. I’ve created five of these. So, all I’m going to do is select all five of these and I’m going to come over here to the right and I’m going to download. I’m going to turn these select SVG. Going to say remove background and optimize quality. Now, I don’t have to worry about DPI or size because these are SVGs. They’re scalable vector graphics, which means I can upsize them, downsize them, do whatever, and they’re not going to lose quality. So, I’m just going to export those. If you are creating PGs, you are going to want to make sure they are 300 dpi and you know the drill, right? So, I’m just going to save these in here. And I’m just going to call these wildlife bundle. And that’s that. Now, my next step [cough] [clears throat] is to take these images and make mockups so I can make an image that will go on my leadfunnel homepage. All right. And to do that, I’m going to use this platform called Render Studio. And I’m just going to sign in here quick. And let me get in here. All righty. And I am going to use the mockup generator in here. And I can upload up to 10 files at once. So I’m just going to come in here and I’m going to find my freebies. Okay. And I’m going to drag one. Whoops. Going to drag. Can I drop it in there? Nope. Okay. I have to grab them this way. And that’s okay. come in here and I’m going to grab three, four, five. Okay, I’m going to grab all five of these images and I am going to go in here to my templates and I’m going to select this wood coaster and I’m just going to click generate five mockups. And just that quickly, it generated all five of these. And I’m going to download them. One, two, three, four, five. Okay, so I wanted them all like this on this coaster. And now I’m going to come back to KD. And this may seem odd to you, but I am going to upload all five of those images again. Okay,

let’s close that out. And I want to put all of these on one art board. And I could have done this before. I just forgot and I ended up deleting them. But I’m just going to upload all of these. Put them on the same artboard here. Make it a little bigger. Maybe doesn’t really matter what the size is. Okay. Now, here in KD, I’m going to select this artboard and I’m going to use a smart board here. And I’m going to tell it AI image board. And now what I want to do is I’m going to use Nano Banana 2. And I’m going to say create a life style mockup image of these SVG files. Put them on wooden coasters sitting on a coffee table in a cozy living room. Okay. I just want a mockup that shows all five of these images together. So, we’re going to give this a second to generate mockup. And that looks pretty cool. It is. Let me zoom in here for you. You see it took all those images, put it on like wooden coasters, and it’s sitting on a coffee table, which is exactly what I wanted. Okay. So, I am just going to delete that cuz I didn’t mean to duplicate it. I wanted to flatten it and turn it into an image by itself. So, let me zoom out here. And now I’m going to delete all of those plain images. I’m going to pop this right here on my artboard. And I’m going to zoom in. And now, you remember those little those five individual mockups I did. Now, I am going to upload those right in here. And I am going to line them up across the top of this. So, uh, when I put this on my landing page, people are going to be able to see all of these individually, as well as this big mockup of the designs. Okay. So, I’m just moving these up here to the top, putting them in a row, just like that. Now, I’m going to select all of them. I don’t want the background. I just want these five small images. What did I do? holding shift while selecting. Then I can resize all of them. Just like that. Okay. So now we have each individual one across the top. Plus we have that nice mockup of them on a coffee table. Okay. So this is a great image for my landing page. So now that I have this done, I’m going to download this. And this time I’m going to make it a JPEG. And I don’t want to remove the background. I’m just going to optimize the quality and I’m going to export this and I’m going to save this right here. And I’m going to call this my mockup image. All right. So now we have our files created. And what I’m going to do with those really quick is I’m going to come over here and my freebie and my wildlife bundle is right here. I am going to actually I don’t even have to do anything to this because my five images are right in here. I can view them right here. We have all five. So, I can leave them just the way they are or I could go in here and rename them, which is what I should do. So, we’re going to extract to wildlife bundle. I’m going to come in here and I should have named these while I was in KD, but I forgot. So, we’re just going to do it now. And we’re going to name it bison, owl, moose, mountain, lion, and wolf. And these are all SVGs. So, now that I have them renamed, I am going to zip them up once again. Turn this back into a zip file. And we’re going to name this Wildlife Bundle freebie. Okay, so now I have my files all ready to go. I have my mockups, my image ready to go for my landing page. So now it’s time to head over to NED and build our landing page. Okay, so I am logged into my NED account and the first thing I want to do is go to my student dashboard and come in here to the ENT funnel templates and I’m going to grab one of these. Okay. And you can pick whichever one you want. You can create your own. It’s completely up to you. I am just going to grab a ready-made one. And I’m going to use this one. I think the tan, the sand color is perfect for um the wildlife uh designs I’m doing. So, all I’m going to do is click install now. And that’s going to add this to my funnel list. Okay. And I’m going to refresh it quick. And you see it’s active and ready to use. The first thing I’m going to do is over here on the right I’m going to click on these three buttons. Select settings. And I’m going to rename this to my wildlife freebie bundle. All right. And then I’m going to choose my custom domain that I’ve already added to AntE. And you should have done that by now, too. And then I’m just going to save this. I don’t have to worry about currency or payments because this is a freebie funnel. We’re not asking them to buy anything. We’re asking them to give us their name and email address in exchange for some free files. So, I’m just going to hit save. Now, what I’m going to do is click on the name of my funnel. And in here, we can once again give the page a name. So, I’m going to do wildlife freebief funnel. And down here would be your URL path. So, I’m going to make this wildlife freebie. And then I can come in here and on the right click on edit page. Now this is what our page looks like. And what I’m going to do to make this super easy is I’m going to take a screenshot of this main part here. And I’m going to bring it over and I’m going to give that screenshot to chat GPT. And I’m going to tell it this is the template for my optin funnel. I’m giving away a set of five wildlife SVG files for laser engraving. A moose, owl, mountain lion, bison, and wolf. give me all the text for this optin funnel. Okay? And it’s going to look at that screenshot and it’s going to tell me exactly what to put and where to put it. So, right here, left side headline, what you get. We’re going to copy that and we’re going to come in here and it says what you get. We’re going to leave that just the way it is. Left side description, get instant access, and we’re going to copy that. We’re going to come over here and right here. We’re going to paste that right in. Okay. And I’m going to give it some spacing in here. Just like that. All right, that looks pretty good. Then I’m going to come back over here. And now it says right side headline. And I’m going to copy the right side. And this is the right side headline. We’ll paste that right in there. And I think I may make that a little smaller so it fits on two lines and center it just like that. Okay. And then my bullet points. We’ll grab these. And in here is where we’ll paste that. And again, I’m going to give a little bit of spacing. And I think I’m going to make this text just a little bit smaller. Okay, that looks pretty good. Just like that. I might I think I’m going to adjust the line height a little so everything’s not sp spread out quite as much. All right, that looks pretty good there. And then we’ll come over here and of course you know your first name, email, button text, get my free SVG bundle. So now we’ll click on our button and then over here on the left you’ll scroll scroll till you find button text and replace it. Just like that. And then underneath the small text under button right here, we’ll paste that in and replace it with what chat GPT told us to. Okay. Now, you can do different things here. It has now optional thank you page, confirmation line, um, stuff like that. But once you fill in this basic stuff right here, you’re essentially done. If you want to have a countdown, you can fill in this part at the top. I’m not going to do that. I’m just going to get rid of that part. And I’m going to scroll down here. And I’m going to get rid of these lower areas. I don’t need them for this basic funnel. And then here, I’m going to click on the image. And over here on the left, I’m going to select upload. And I am going to grab my mockup, my image that I created in KD with all of my designs on it. And we’re going to put that right there. And I [clears throat] think I’m going to make it just a little smaller. Not much. And I’m going to come down and scroll down and give it a little bit more of a radius on the corners. And I’m also going to give it a little bit of a shadow just to give it a little bit of depth. Okay. So, now there is my funnel. It is pretty much complete. Down at the bottom here, you’ll want to change the text down here at the bottom. Put your own website or your name in there and go to settings. Scroll down and you can give your page a title. And I’m going to put free wildlife SVG files. Okay. And once it looks good, just click save. And now your funnel is built. Then we’ll hit exit. And the next step is your thank you page. We’ll click on that. And again, we’re going to name this wildlife bundle. Thank you. And down here, we’re going to change this wildlife. Thank you. And then we will edit this page. And in here, once again, I’m going to replace this with the mockup. And it’s already uploaded. So, I can just grab it right here. Pop that in. Over here on the left, I can adjust the size of this. And we can come over here to our uh conversion. And we can say copy and paste. And we can make these smaller. Just like that. And down here, you can change this to whatever you want. I’m going to put download your wildlife SVG bundle because I put them here. And I’m going to select this button. And over here on the left, it says action when button is clicked is download file. So now I’m going to upload that zip with my files in it. my wildlife bundle freebie zip file. Okay. And we are now have that linked to this button. When somebody clicks this button, when they get sent here after signing up, they will click that and they can download. And you can remove this. It’s just a placeholder image. Um, you can change anything on here that you want. It’s completely up to you. Again, at the bottom, you would change this to your brand name. And once you have it looking the way you want it to, just click save and exit. And now your freebie funnel is built. If we come back here to the main page, we can click here and select the button that says viewfunnel step. And it’ll open this up in a new window for us. And you can see exactly what it looks like. You can see exactly what people who are visiting this page see. This is exactly what they’re going to see. And so now you can start sharing this URL, the link to this page in your message to buyer, in any email signatures, you know, in on Pinterest, on Facebook, on Insta, wherever it is that you promote, you can start promoting this freebie funnel and people will know. They come here, they give you their name, they give you their email, and they get free files from you or a free guide or a free cheat sheet. Whatever it is you want to create, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you think your customers will like and use, you can create and give to them for free in exchange for their name and email on your list. Okay, so that was a pretty quick walkthrough of creating your first funnel. Um, if you have any questions, please drop them in the comments. Let me know. Uh, there’s a link below for NTED. You can sign up for that. Use it 100% free. There is no time limit. It’s not a free trial. You can use it free forever. uh just know that you know when you upgrade to some of the paid plans you get more features, okay? But you can absolutely build a funnel, build a mailing list on the free plan. So again, any questions, drop them in the comments. Thanks so much, guys, for watching. Um I appreciate it more than you know. Please take a second to like and subscribe, and I’ll see you guys in the next

Hey everybody, it’s Rhonda and in this video we are jumping back into Artistly. We haven’t used Artistly a lot lately and I’ve noticed that I’ve had some questions about um trying to get particular styles inside of Artistly. So I thought we would just do a quick run through of that today. um maybe give you some ideas how you might be able to um get the style you are looking for in Artistly. All right. So, the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to jump over here to our uh Creative AI prompt library. All right. And this is something that you get access to free when you are a profit society member. So, um you can you get access to thousands and thousands of prompts. There’s just prompts for everything in here. But today I am focusing on like this watercolor style that uh some people seem to struggle to uh get this type of style inside of Artistly. All right. So, I copied the prompt for this birdhouse. And we’re going to jump over here to Artistly, and we’re going to go into the fast AI image designer. And you might typically just come over here to the create from prompt, right? And paste your prompt in and select how many images you want to generate. So, we’ll see what we get there. And you may not get the look you’re going for. See, that doesn’t look anything like this, right? And I see a lot of people get discouraged when they use artistly and the image doesn’t come out looking like what they expected it to. All right. Now, the thing with artistly is, you know, that was just your your basic create from prompt. There are a ton a ton of other tools inside of Artistly here that you can get a different look. So that was just the basic create from prompt under image designer V6. Now if you come over here, slide over just a little bit and use the artistic designer. We can paste that in there. And let’s do two. and I’ll show you that you’re going to get a completely different look just by using a different tool inside of Artistly. So, let’s wait and give this one a second for it to process. Okay, here’s the first one. And you see that is a little bit more watercolor. It’s still different, but like I said, it’s a completely different look than what we got just from the create from prompt tool. this one. And like I said, it may not be exactly what you’re going for yet, but you know, don’t get discouraged inside Artistly. There are a ton of different tools. So, we’re going to look around. And one of the biggest things I found, and I’m going to come back up here to the image designer V6, is the seamless patterns V2. If you click on that, get rid of that. a seamless pattern of starter. Paste your prompt in here, right? And hit create image. This isn’t just for seamless patterns, okay? You can get very, very close to the style you have in your original prompt by using the seamless pattern tool, which I know seems absolutely crazy cuz that’s for seamless patterns, but you don’t have to use it that way. Now, this still isn’t quite what we were going for. And this is a little closer. Okay, it’s a little bit closer. So, you know, those were just three different image generation tools inside of Artistly that I used and we got three completely different looking results from them. Another thing you can try is the AI art illustrator up here at the top. If we click into that, this has a ton of already um mapped out styles for you. Okay, so let’s say right here we have this one that says clip art. We can paste our prompt in there and generate and see what we get. There’s sometimes you have to try a couple different of the styles. Now that is looking a bit closer. That looks pretty good. And you know, you may not ever get the exact style that you’re looking for. You just may not. It’s, you know, you may have to adjust your prompt a little bit. Now, here’s another one. We’re trying a different a different one in here. And there are different like clip art and watercolor styles inside the AI Art Illustrator. So, try a couple of them to get what you’re looking for. But I just want to show you, you know, just because you don’t get what you were looking for in one of the tools doesn’t mean that you can’t do it in artistly. You can look around in here. Now, we did the clip art and the clip art style. Neither one of those were quite what I was looking for. Um, we have this pastoral watercolor style, lush realistic water style. I think I’m going to go for the intricate pastor pastoral. We’ll try that one roll up and see what we get. But the beauty of Artistly is the fact that it is, you know, a one-time purchase. We don’t have um we don’t have to worry about necessarily running out of credits or tokens um while we’re experimenting in here. And I do like to use artistly for experimentation because of that. You know, I can run a bunch of different prompts and test them in different ways. So, that one definitely not what we have here. So, we can keep trying. And like I said, you know, we may never get exactly what we’re looking for. Um, just that’s the nature of the beast with different AI image platforms and the generators and let’s go with lush realistic. See what that gives us. But even if you don’t get exactly what you were hoping for, you may come up with something that looks similar or better to you, you know. So, don’t don’t get laser focused on having it have to be exactly like um maybe the example you saw somewhere else. This came out looking really nice. This is under the pastoral watercolor style. Um I wasn’t a fan of the first one, but the second image it generated looks pretty good. I like that. And now we are in the realistic. And you can always click on the image view to see which uh style you used. So if you want to go back and use that style again, you absolutely can. This is the lush realistic. I’m not feeling this one as much as I like this one here. And I absolutely love this one coming from the artistic designer. I think that one looked really good. And so did this one out of Seamless Patterns B2. I thought that one came out really nice. So, we’ll try a couple more of these in here. And you know what? I’m not really um doing too much. I just want to show you that you have a lot of different options in here where you can look through and pick some different styles and see if any of them give you what you’re going for. And down here is watercolor style. go with that one real quick. See what we get. And I think while that one’s running, I’ll come up here and I’ll scroll down because I saw watercolor portrait. That might be another one. And we’ll have a look at those. Okay, this was the watercolor style. And that looks pretty good. Like I said, it’s a little different, but at the same time, it is a nice style in and of itself. The watercolor portrait is very nice as well. That one looks good. And you know, I just trying to show you that even though you may not get exactly exactly what you expected or exactly what you were hoping for, you can get close. And you don’t always have to have something doesn’t have to have be exactly the way you saw it in another image. You know, it’s it all comes down to the model someone used, the prompt someone used. So AI images are always going to vary to some extent. All right? But you can come in here and find a lot of different styles that you may be able to use to get at least close to what you were hoping for. You know, don’t just use one and think h I just can’t get that look in artistly because you really really can. You really can. Let’s come back here to the ones we’ve done. So this was our original. Okay, this is and this one was created with uh Nano Banana 2 inside of uh render studio. So this is what Nano Banana 2 gave us. And like I said, it’s not exact over here, but that is the difference in different image generation models. You know, they don’t all do things exactly the same, but you can get close and you can get really nice results. Um, I like this one. I liked this one a lot, you know. So, if you are an artistly user, and this is where I usually get this question is from people who use Artistly exclusively that they come in and they use just one or two of the tools and they’re like, I can’t get that look in Artistly. Look around a little more. You may be able to get it. you just haven’t experimented with enough of the different tools in here, uh, the different styles. They also have the Artistic Designer V2, which is different from the original artistic designer. You can try that one. Um, we have this one says photo realism. I don’t even know. I’ve never really tried this one much, so I’m going to run it just in case. Like I said though, run your prompt in a few of the different tools and see which one gives you the best result, closest to what you were hoping for. Now, this is the photo realism, so this isn’t really going to give you what you were expecting. Uh, this is Artistic Designer V2, which gives you a lot of that nice, uh, flowy, blendy watercolor there. This one doesn’t look bad either. It has the flowy watercolors. Um, see what else is in here. Are there any others in here that I before image designer? This is an older one, an older model that you can try it and see what happens. You just never know. Uh, sometimes you’ll end up with something that works better in an older older model. Not a fan of that. But if you are an artistly user, don’t write it off, you know, don’t just say, “Ah, I can’t get what I want in artistly.” Um, look around. Use some of the different styles and try it out. I think you’ll be surprised with, you know, what you can actually get in here. Um, so like I said, you may never match your style exactly, and that’s okay. That is okay. I think people get hung up on that. They go to Etsy, they search around, they find a competitor shop that has, you know, like a best-selling clip art bundle and they look at the style and they think that they have to have that exact that that they have to match that exactly. And that’s not the case. You know, if it’s a watercolor, that’s great. And you can get watercolor look from Artistly. You can get it from pretty much every image generation model out there. Will it look exactly the same as the ones you were just looking at on Etsy? Probably not. Because without the specific prompt someone used and without knowing the specific image generation model they used, it is very difficult to duplicate something down to the tea. And that’s not what you want to do anyway. You you are using competitor research for inspiration, not to copy. Okay? So I I can’t stress that enough. I I just get so many uh messages and you know questions about well this is what I saw here and I just can’t get that exact look. Well, stop trying. Stop trying to um completely copy a style. You know, you look at it, you know it’s watercolor, you know it’s this, you know it’s that. That’s great. It doesn’t have to look exactly like the one you were looking at on a competitor’s site. All right. But again, this was really more about um Artistly users who message me and say, “I just can’t get this look in Artistly.” Try, you know, check out a bunch of the different tools. You may be very surprised with what you can get. You know, look at all these different looks we got for this birdhouse. And we never left Artistly. We just used different styles that they already had preset. We used different tools and we got some very very nice results. Very nice results. Um this is a beautiful birdhouse right here and this is just done in the watercolor portrait. Um this one here is the pastoral watercolor, you know. So try different styles, try different tools, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised with what you really can do inside of Artistly. All right, so if you have any questions, drop them in the comments. Uh feel free to stop by and join our private community. You get daily pros, daily tips on ways to help uh grow your Etsy shop and things like that. So, as always, I appreciate you guys so so much for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.

Hi everybody, it’s Rhonda and in this video we are going to be working inside of photo. Uh photo.com is an online image editor uh similar to Photoshop. Okay, and it is 100% free. Um you do have an option for a premium account if you want it. It is extremely extremely cheap. um if you just don’t like seeing ads over here on the right side of your screen because it is ad supported. All right. So, we are going to be talking about mockups in this video. And I had some questions in my community the other day about what to do when you have a mockup similar to this one where there’s a hand that’s, you know, in front on the front of the t-shirt that, you know, may uh interfere with your image design. Like, let me show you real quick what I’m talking about. Um, let’s say you have this design. Make sure it’s on top here. And when you make it larger, let’s rotate that. You see how it is over top? Let me zoom in a little. It’s over top of that thumb. Okay. And obviously, that’s not what you want when you are creating mock-ups. Okay? So, I thought I’d show you an easy way to um take care of this issue using photo pay. So, I’m going to get rid of I’m actually just going to turn this off for now. No, let’s just get rid of it. Okay. So, we have our mockup here, our blank mockup, and this thumb is in the way. All right. So, what we’re going to do is we’re going to come over here to our lefthand panel and we’re going to grab our magnetic lasso tool. All right, it’s right here. And you can rightclick it to get the different options. All right, and I’m selecting the magnetic. Make sure your layer, your background here is selected. And then just come along here and just go right along the edge of this thumb. Okay. And you don’t need much of it. All right. You just need to get this little piece of the thumb right there. Okay. And then I’m going to go up here to select and I’m going to have modify. And I’m going to select feather. And I think I’m going to make it about five pixels. And I’m just going to select okay. Now what we’re going to do is I’m just going to hit control J on my keyboard. Oops, I made a couple of them there. Got a little carried away, didn’t I? And all controll J does is make a copy of what you selected. Creates a new layer. So now if I turn off this background, you see there’s our thumb, right? So now what happens? You have your layer here. Now I’m going to call this I’m going to name this thumb. Okay? And that should always be on top. So now if you bring in a design, let me drag and drop a design in here and let’s make it larger and let’s rotate it like we normally would. And again, if we stick it in the design here, it’s on top of that thumb. But if we grab our thumb layer now over here on the right and just drag that to the top. Now you see our design is behind the thumb exactly how you would want it to be if you know to make it look a little bit more realistic. So that’s all you do uh to work with mockup blanks such as this. You know, if you have a a mockup and it has a thumb or a finger or something that may go over your design and you want to make it look a little more realistic, that’s how you do it. Just come in here to photo pee, use your magnetic lasso, make a little copy of that thumb, turn it into another layer, and place it on top. All right. I know this was a really short video, but this was it’s a really simple process. So, if you have any questions, um, drop them in the comments. You know, you can do this in, uh, Photoshop, you can do it in Canva, you can do it, you know, in a multitude of different, uh, programs. I just typically use Photo P for things like this. So, I thought I’d show you how to do it in there. All right, so if you have any questions, again, drop them in the comments. Thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it more than you know.

Hi guys, it’s Rhonda and today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about uh two different ways that you can build your Etsy or your, you know, personal uh shop where you sell your digital files. Okay? It doesn’t matter if it’s Etsy, if it’s on your own website, if it’s on Shopify, if it’s on a stand store, Gumroad or Makers page, anywhere. Um I just thought we’d talk a little bit about two different ways that this can be done. All right. And you know, understanding which one you want to go with is really, really going to help you in the long run. So, it really comes down to two different types of shops. Are you going to have a productbased shop or an audience-based shop? Okay? And you know, there’s differences, right? A productbased shop means that you’ve picked one type of product and you go all in on it. All right? So, let’s say you sell Tumblr wraps. That’s your thing. Every listing in your shop is a Tumblr wrap. Different themes, different styles, different holidays, but it’s always Tumblr wraps. Your buyers know exactly what they’re getting when they find you. Your SEO all points to the same thing, and you get really fast and really good at making that one product. You know, same way if you just do um PNG designs for t-shirts. You’re not selling Tumblr wraps and clip art and, you know, different things. You are selling t-shirt designs. That’s it. You go wide within that one format. You know, tons of themes, tons of niches, but the product type stays the same. And the upside to that is that your shop looks clean and focused, and people who need that specific thing tend to trust you faster because you clearly know what you’re doing. Okay. Now the only downside to a productbased shop would be if um demand for that particular product you know started to cool off you know let’s say you know not as many people were creating sublimation tumblers you know then you feel it across your entire shop at one time. All right and then the next type of shop is an audience-based shop. That means instead of picking one product type, you’ve picked one type of person and you make everything they could possibly want. Let’s say uh you are making products. You’ve chosen dog lovers as your audience. Okay? So, you might sell them uh sublimation designs. You might sell uh clip art. You might sell SVG cut files. You might sell Tumblr wraps and t-shirt designs, all different product types, but every single one of them is related to dogs. So, somebody who might be obsessed with their golden retriever who lands in your shop and it feels like everything in your shop is made for them. They’re not buying one thing and leaving. are probably grabbing the tumbr wrap design, the clip art set, and the SVG for their Cricut machine because it all fits within what they love. Uh you let’s say book lovers, you know, that would work the same way. Your shop could have bookish sublimation designs, uh reading themed SVGs, um you know, cozy library clip art, uh book book club, uh t-shirt designs. So, a totally different file types, but every single buyer in that shop is there because they love books or they love dogs. They will probably browse longer, they’ll buy more, and they come back whenever you add new stuff. Okay? And I just wanted to explain the difference between those two kind types of shops because you know we talk about niches and you know things like that all the time and a lot of times people get confused and like I said you know there’s your product based niche and then there’s your audience-based niche. So they’re two completely different things and you just have to decide which one is for you. You know, neither one is the wrong choice. They just work differently. You know, product based shops are easier to get started. Uh you learn one type of format really well. You know, one set of specs, one workflow, one type of mockup. And you know, if you’re new to creating digital files files, this is a really, really solid way to build your confidence fast and your shop fast. audience-based shops, you know, they take a little more thought up front because you actually have to understand who your buyer is, but then they also tend to uh build a stronger loyalty and higher cart totals because people may pick up multiple items in one visit. And you know, the thing that ends up hurting a lot of people is that they try to do both without making either one of them really intentional. you know, selling Tumblr wraps and dog clip art and book SVGs and Christmas t-shirt designs with no real thread connecting any of it. Now, that’s a shop that’s going to feel random, and shops like that are really, really hard to grow. All right, you you don’t have to be perfect right out of the gate, but at some point, you do need to make a choice about which direction you’re heading. you know, you you need to um figure out which direction you want to go in, which direction um makes you happy, you know, but you have to pick a lane, you know, you have to pick one or the other because trying to do it all is just going to create chaos and you’re always going to feel like you’re spinning your wheels. All right? So, you know, before you sit down to make your next batch of designs, ask yourself honestly, am I building around a product or am I building around a person? Both work, but you need to actually pick one and be intentional about it. All right, so that’s all I really wanted to talk about today. I just see so many people um struggling to decide which direction to go. So, I thought I would, you know, throw up this quick little video for you and, you know, hope that it helps you decide which direction you want to go in. You know, and if you need help deciding, you know, absolutely come join us in uh my private community. There’s always people there to help answer questions and help steer you in the right direction. you know, help you make those choices that you need to make. So, you know, come on over, hang out with us in the community and, you know, we can help you work through which type of shop you want. If you have an existing shop, we can help, you know, help you brainstorm ways to, you know, steer into one direction or the other. All righty. So, I hope you guys found this video helpful. So, I hope it explained, you know, the difference between a product based shop and an audience-based shop and it gives you a little bit of clarity on uh, you know, which direction you may want to go with yours. If you have any questions, you know, always drop them in the comments. I’ll answer them as soon as I can. And you know, thanks so much for watching and I hope to see you guys in the next

Hey everybody, it’s Rhonda and in this video I want to talk to you a little bit about how you can um speed up the process of finding a prompting style that you like. Okay. I’m here on Etsy and I’m looking at uh different clip art and let’s say, you know, I’m scrolling through here and I see some clip art, you know, that is selling very well. Now, I don’t want to copy them, right? I don’t want to just uh look at their product and copy that exactly, but I may want to use that style in other clip art products. All right. So, for instance, I’m looking at this uh coastal reef treasures here. And I’ll open this up. And I really, really love the style of these uh sea creatures or coastal creatures. And I’m just going to scroll through here a little bit and I’m going to look at some of these different images that they have. And what I’m going to do is I am going to take just one image. All right. Like this lobster. That one really I think um shows the overall style really well. So what I’m going to do is I’m just going to take a screenshot of that lobster right there. and I copy it. And then I take it over here to chat GPT and I paste that in. And I ask chatgpt to give me a prompt for that design style. Give me a prompt for this design style. Be specific with colors and look. All right. And that’s all I tell it. And now what it will do is it will give me a prompt, a starting prompt. And what I’ll do now is I’ll copy that prompt and then I’ll ask GPT to create this image just to make sure it is looking in the style that I expect it to. Okay. Now, I want to make sure I point out that a lot of times I’ll have people messaging me and saying, “Hey, I found this really cool style I liked and when I went to create it, it doesn’t look anything like what I thought it would.” Now you have to keep in mind that each image generation model out there whether you know you’re using Canva or Artistly or Nano Banana or um ideoggram or any one of the number of image generation models all of them are a little bit different and all of them have what I would say their weaknesses and their strengths. you know, some do certain styles better than others. Uh, some listen to your prompt better than others. So, you have to keep that in mind that even though you may get a prompt for the style you want, you know, it may not be exactly what you were expecting depending upon your image generation model. So sometimes you just have to do some, you know, troubleshooting, some trial and error and try your prompt in different models and decide which one gives you the better results. So we’re going to give this a minute here and let this finish quick. Here we go. And that looks pretty darn good. It is not exactly, but actually it is. That’s really good. I like that. Okay. So now what I’m going to do is I’m going to keep this prompt because that was great. It came out looking very similar. I we didn’t have any of the blue in there, but overall the style is very similar. So I’m very very happy with that. So what I’m going to do now is I’m going to make sure I have that prompt copied. And then I’m going to come over here into render studio and I’m going to go into the prompt scaler and I’m going to paste that prompt in because remember I don’t want to copy. So I’m not making uh coastal sea life. What I’m going to do in here is I’m going to ask uh my prompt scaler my prompt scaler here in render studio to scale this prompt out for different subjects. All right. So, scale this prompt for let’s say spring. Let’s No, no, let’s go with uh um let’s go for I have it in my head and you know my brain and my mouth and my fingers just aren’t cooperating this morning. Um succulents. There we go. That’s what I wanted. Succulents in pots. um various shapes and types and even and even colors. Okay. So, I’m going to get some completely different prompts here um for different succulents and pots, different shapes, different types, different colors. Um but it should all remain in that same style that we just asked for. And once I get these, I’m going to copy all of them. Okay. So, we’re going to come over here to render studio into the image generator. And I’m first going to choose Flux 2 Klein because that’s a really cheap and affordable model. And we’re going to run all 10 of these prompts at the same time in our bulk mode. And we’re going to see what we get from there. Does it give us the style that we were looking for? So, we’ll give it a few minutes. Here we go. That’s the first one. And that looks nice. I’m not sure it’s exactly what I was looking for, but it is a great This one looks really good. I like that one. And we’re going to let this finish and run the last 10 and see or the la the last of the 10 and have a look. These came out really nice. I’m actually really really liking these. Okay, so they’ve all generated and they all came out very, very nice. I would not say they’re exactly um what I was going for. If you look, this is the original style and then this is what uh GPT had given us. So there’s a little bit of a difference. So I would probably choose another um model. And I’m going to go with Nano Banana 2 this time and run them. Now, you don’t have to run all 10 prompts to test this. I just like to do that. You can pick one or two of them and choose an image generator to test and see which one gives you the best uh versions. But I’m just running all 10 because it’s easier for me to do it that way. And who knows, I might want to use all of these for something else. Okay. So, here is our first nano banana. And that one looks a little better. I really like that you’re getting like this watercolor um bleed in here, like ink bleed, which is very close to what we wanted. So, I am really liking, like I said, so far the Nano Banana 2 version. We’ll see what we get as it generates more. That one is really good. I love that. So anyway, this is really about how you can get those styles that you find. You see something on Etsy or someplace and you’re not looking to copy the image. You know, if you find um you know, crabs, you know, clip art crabs in a certain style, you don’t want to copy that style and then turn around and put up a set of clip art crabs that look just like it. But it’s a great way to take a popular style and turn it into something else. Like I went with succulents. You know, succulents are always a popular item. So, I thought that would work well with that particular style as well. So, that’s how you do it. It’s really, you know, something that isn’t that difficult. You just grab that sample image, give it to chat GPT, tell it what you want it to do. You want this style with this, you know, be specific with the colors and the overall look and vibe of the image. And then you can turn it into something else. You know, you can take this starter prompt here and you can actually let’s um let’s do this. Let me get all the way down here to the bottom. You paste that prompt in. Do do not generate an image. Turn this prompt into a template. Okay. And then what it will do is turn this into a template for you. So it’s a hand painted watercolor, whatever. And you can change the colors and all that stuff in it. So, you know, you can do it that way or you can do what I did and you can even ask chat GPT to do this scale this prompt for different um subjects. Uh let’s say in here it’s giving us a whole list of uh ideas. So, different subject here we go instead of different subjects different scale this for birdhouses. keep the overall vibe but change up the colors some. And then just paste that big prompt in and chat GPT will give you more prompts only. These will be all birdhouses. Okay. So, let’s And I only had it do one, but if I would have asked it for multiple, it would have given me multiple. So, this just I love these. I love these in nano banana. They look absolutely amazing. That works great. So now what I’m going to do is I am going to paste this birdhouse prompt in here. And I’m going to try a GPT2 as my image model. And like I said, you should really test out a few different image generation models to find the one that gives you um the style you’re looking for. Some are stronger at things. Um one 2.6 six is very strong with watercolor. Um, and yet, uh, like Quinn image 2512 is better with realistic images, you know, and some of them just have their own kind of styles built right in that are a little bit different than what you might be going for. So, don’t take a prompt, run it through one model, and just decide that it didn’t work, okay? because you can um try different models to get what you’re looking for, you know, and you can spend time, you know, tweaking your prompts if you want. If uh you know, you think you can get a better result that way, do so. And but I just wanted to show you how, you know, how easy it really is to um take a style you see and turn it into something different that, you know, you can use that style for your own designs. That is really pretty. These birdhouses are absolutely stunning. That is going to make, you know, that would make another amazing set of clip art. All right. So, that’s how you do it. That’s how you take a style you like and get a prompt for that style and then turn it into, you know, different subjects, different themes that you want to create. All right. So, if you have any questions, let me know um to the community. Uh join us there. And as always, thanks guys for watching and I hope to see you is in the next video.

Hey everybody, it’s Rhonda and this morning we’re going to talk a little bit about uh New York’s new law that goes into effect in like six days. Okay. And what this is about is people who use AI in advertising, they want transparency. They want people to know that uh these are AI models or AI performers in advertising. They don’t want you, whoever is doing the advertising, the company, whatever, they don’t want you misleading people and leading them to believe that their actors or models are real people when they are in fact AI. Okay, so it tells you right here and this is just a quick overview. It says advertisers must conspicuously dis disclose the use of AI generated synthetic performers. These are digital creations that appear is real but are unidentifiable people in commercial spots. And your penalties are set at $1,000 for the first violation and $5,000 for each subsequent violation. and it takes effect on June 9th. So, this is a big deal, especially for those of you who sell digital products because selling digital products, we are unable to take real photos of our product in use, you know, and we want to be able to show uh buyers how they can use our products. Um, so a lot of times we use, you know, AI generated models and mockups and things like that. So you need to be aware of this that you need to disclose this. Now, I’m going to jump over here to this website here. I’ve been doing so much research on this the last several weeks. And it says right here that the statute requires that disclosures be conspicuous. It does not prescribe any specific language or placement. Uh so you know it’s not really giving us a whole lot of guidance on how we have to disclose or where we have to disclose. It does go on to say though that in the absence of guidance, regulators will likely look to other disclosure standards like those governing how to disclose paid influencer content which generally requires disclosures to be prominent and unavoidable. So it needs to be disclosed in a way that people cannot miss it. All right. So you know there are different ways you can do this. I know as you know an affiliate you know we have to put advertisement or ad or affiliate or something you know directly in a post or a comment or you know with our image you know things like that. Um, so you’re going to want to take this seriously because if you are advertising your products for sale, then you are going to fall under this umbrella. You are going to be liable if you are not disclosing disclosing. Okay. So, we’ve been going back and forth in my community about different ways to do this. And a lot of us think the best way is to put like a small banner on our listing images. Whether you’re selling on Etsy or Shopify or makers page or uh you have your own website, Woo Commerce, whatever, you’re going to want to disclose when you are using a model that is AI generated, that isn’t a real human. So, what I’ve done in Render Studio, I have um added some features here to our mockup generator to help you uh make your mockups a little quicker, help you get that disclosure that you’re going to need. So, if you come in here to uh render studio into the mockup generator and you want to create your mockups, I’m going to click on select multiple. So, I can select multiple mockups. And I’m going to select this one here. And I’m going to come down and I’m going to select this one. And we’ll grab this one. And then we will grab a flatlay. Okay. And then I’m going to grab an image from my generation history. I think I’m going to grab this chicken. And I’m going to I’ve selected all the mockups I want to use. I added my design. I’m going to click generate mockups. All right. Now, this one here is just a thumb. I’m not worried about that one. I don’t believe that needs a disclosure because it is literally just a thumb. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. This one here, you do have a little bit of the girl’s face. And this is an AI model. So, I would absolutely disclose on this one. And I would disclose on this one as well because this is an AI generated model. So when you have images in your listing that do contain AI generated models that you need to disclose, you can click this toggle here and it will put an overlay on a little banner and you can change the color of the banner to whatever you want. You can change the text color. You can change the shape of the banner. If you want it to be a circle, a rectangle, pillshaped, you can change the font. So, it’s up to you. You can change the size of it. And then here, you would just enter the text, which would be something like uh uh this model is AI generated. Something quick and simple just like that. Just letting people know that the model used here is not a real person. You can reduce the opacity here so it blends in just a little bit so it’s not quite as obtrusive intrusive, I’m sorry. And then you just repeat the process for any of the other mockups you are making that need disclosure. Right? You can do the same thing and you can put it wherever you want it. Like I said, I’m just going to come over here. Oops. Messed that up. Going to grab the text here and just copy it. Okay. And I am again going to make this smaller. I’m going to reduce the opacity just a little just so it’s not so intrusive, but it is there. It cannot be missed. Change my text a little. And once you have your overlays on here, your little banners letting people know that these are AI generated, then you can just come up here and you would download all of your mockups. And I’m going to say um this closed mockups. I can’t type this morning either. So, we’re going to going to open that up and I am going to extract it so I can show you what these mockups look like now. Okay. So, let me open this one up. And here it is. And you can see it says right at the bottom, this model is AI generated. And now you are compliant. you are being clear and you are disclosing in a conspicuous way that your AI your models for your listing images are AI generated. Now, uh someone asked last night in my community, well, what if it’s a picture of me? What if I take myself and add that to a, you know, send that to an AI image generator and create mock-ups using my own image, then you do not need to disclose because, you know, it says in several different places that you are required to disclose if your model is a synthetic model that does not resemble a human, a real human person. So it has to be know if you are using yourself that’s fine because you are a real human person and even if you take your image and you upload it and let an AI image generator uh change your clothing, change how you know what you’re wearing to show off a particular design or something like that, that is absolutely fine because that is a real person. Okay? doesn’t matter, you know, how you get that image into your advertisement, it’s still a real person. So, if you want to use yourself or you have a friend or, you know, somebody a model that you can take a picture of and they’re fine with it, then you can use those. You can turn those into mockups and uh things like that and not have to worry about it. But if you are generating if you are using images that are 100% AI generated then you must disclose that. Okay. And in render studio all of our mockups all of our models are AI generated. Okay. So if if I can get some mockups in here that aren’t AI generated models I will and I will label them clearly so you’ll know which ones are which. But as of right now, any model in a mockup on Render Studio is AI generated. Okay? So keep that in mind that if you uh use mockups that we’ve uploaded, you will have to disclose. You know, there are a lot though that are just, you know, flatlays and things like that that you can use and you don’t have to worry about it. But if you’re using anything that shows a model, going to have to disclose. Um, so that’s just one thing I’ve done to try and make uh this a little bit easier. Um, I’m not sure where Etsy is going to go with this. I mean, they are based in New York, so I’m assuming they are going to have to do something u because they do run off-site ads. They do uh things like that. So, you know, they’re going to have to do something to uh comply with this law, but it’s still up to you individually to cover your own butt and cover your own shop and make sure that you are disclosing where you need to be. All right? So, if you have any questions, uh, let me know. Um, as always, thanks guys for watching and I hope to see you in the next video.