Technical Failures Can Affect Your Quilting Business & Fun
“The electricity is off. I can’t use my sewing machine!” we dread to hear as quilters and fabric artists.
Also, if you’re conducting a business where you promote and sell your items over the Internet, you’re likely to be devastated when you hear,”Your server is down. The electricity is off. Your computer has a glitch.”
All of these challenges occurred in our household recently, in addition to b5media having some downtime, which disrupted my ability to post here. So occasionally my blog posts were rather irratic in April.
A friend in another state, who also conducts business utilizing the Internet, had server and computer glitches this past week, too. “It made me realize how much we depend on technology these days, ” she remarked.
Yes, our lives seem ruled so much by technology nowadays which has it’s good points and disadvantages.
*If you depend on the Internet for receiving or placing orders, it can mean loss of business. Another friend has a web site and sells quilt fabric, books, and notions to customers online. When she has technological distuptions, it can affect her business.
*Viewers/customers who visit your site and find it down/inaccessible may not return or take awhile before visiting again.
*If you post online at a site or blog, your material may not be so frequent.
*In a world where editors, print and online ones, want your material sent via e-mail, then having technical problems can mean delays or missing deadlines as a quilting writer.
*Of course, if your sewing machine isn’t operable, your ability to produce quilted and fabric items is curtailed.
*If your banking and bookkeeping are done online, there can be problems without technical access.
Solutions?
*Have designing, hand work, and other related work you can do during electronic and techical downtime. Of course, this doesn’t mean you’ll meet deadlines, but you won’t feel you’re completely wasting your time.
*Try to have phone numbers you can call when your computer and related technical support is down. In some cases, you can conduct your business via phone and fax. You, at least, can let necessary contacts know what’s going on.
*When things are up and running, inform your viewers, customers, or editors what’s been going on.
*Have a back-up computer, or sewing machine, in case one doesn’t work. (We’ve found this necessary in our household.)
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