Post #731467 by pjc5150 on Fri, Nov 14, 2014 12:07 PM

well, one day when you get a 150 you can tell me how right I was.. lol... :wink:

my other advice would be not to make a lot of decisions based on "what people buy", and limit yourself to that. People have bland taste for the most part and that's why we are artists and they are not. Make suggestions.. give them options... I have found that customers generally like my ideas more than their own, and typically go with what I suggest, and then are thankful for the direction afterward. I have also found that tikis are a lot like tattoos. the dude who buys a simple hundred dollar tiki will probably be back within a year wanting a nicer, more expensive one.

I basically make a living doing this and have sold hundreds of these damned things... and looking back on all the assumptions I made about the business early on, almost all of them were wrong. So keep an open mind, and never decide that your stuff is "good enough"... :wink:

good luck bro. 8)