Hi Friends and Fans!

Yesterday I wrote about My Painting Plans for 2012, and at the same time leaving room for changes along the way. Basically in a nutshell, I’ll be working on personal projects and then painting ornaments for Christmas (if time permits, etc.). I am playing it by ear. Maybe in a few months I will find something completely new to get into and not do ornaments at all! We shall see!

Today I have two announcements:

First, I’ve decided to get rid of my Artwanted.com account in which had a portfolio and a shop to sell my work. Because I never put much time into hanging out on it and making the effort needed to converse with people, etc., as I ultimately chose to be on Facebook instead, nothing ever happened on that site and no sales were generated from it either. So, in order to streamline Simply the Best Creations, I decided to delete the account.

Secondly, for two years now, I’ve had a Facebook Fan Page which is now known as a Facebook Business Page. On that page I DID try to interact with my fans, etc. but the growth rate stopped within a year of having the fan page. Although some business pages on Facebook are quite popular and have gained thousands of people, I realized that the reason for this growth had to do with “motivational” and “positive quotes” and things of that nature.

From what I have seen and experienced in dealing with Facebook Business Pages, unless you are on it for long lengths of time, posting several pictures and interacting with people at different times of the day, and that is every day, you will not grow your business page very much. There is one fellow painter who I have been following and she is constantly on it for several hours a day and that is how she gained her followers. Because I work other jobs and have other things going on in my life besides painting, nursing a business page is not something I am interested in any longer. It works for some people as a good marketing tool, so I am not knocking Facebook business pages, but for Simply the Best Creations,  it doesn’t work.

So with that said, after many months of thinking this through, I have decided to DELETE Simply the Best Creations business page on Facebook. I will still be using my blog/website and my ETSY store to sell my stuff online and to share my projects online.

Please feel free to UNLIKE my business page by going to it HERE and on the left bottom pressing the  UNLIKE link. I will be posting statuses twice a day for the next week telling other fans that I will not be keeping the page any longer. If you don’t want to see the same status posted twice a day, you can UNLIKE the page to avoid seeing it in your news feed. I will pull the plug on the Facebook Business Page on January 23rd!

Have a blessed day Everyone!

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