Custom Vinyl Wall Art Painter Back in Business . . . or Not
Posted by Walls Need Love on 10/21/2011
That first $600 fee for my "custom-painted wall quotes" didn't last as long as I'd hoped. Though the sale of vinyl wall decals on Craig's List brought in some needed cash, I was still hungry. Then the perfect solution came to mind when I revisited Walls Need Love’s Custom Text Tool.
Here was the answer to my problem! I could set an appointment to view the walls that needed the lovely custom painting (or vinyl wall art, if you will), write down the requested quotes, and then tell the client to give me a few days to work on the design. I'd be back in a week ready to dazzle them with my creation.
The Custom Text Tool is my kind of device. With this, I can turn out great wall art that looks like an original masterpiece of calligraphy. If I didn't know that I was actually applying vinyl wall decals that require only minutes of work, I could fool myself into thinking I had suddenly been struck with the gifts of an immortal artist and designer. What luck!
It took only a few moments to put my ad back in place. Now what had that original customer wanted painted on the wall of her son's bedroom? It took me a while to think back to the traumatic moment of truth in my first foray into wall art. Then, using the Custom Text Tool, I produced a new masterpiece and sent the order off for production. Who would ever guess that I was actually using vinyl wall art from Walls Need Love? It was fool-proof! Now to place my call.
The woman who answered the phone sounded like her cheery, pleasant self until I explained who I was (the artist who had transformed her bedroom walls with masterful calligraphy). Then she seemed a lot less friendly. Just as I launched into my sales pitch about a bargain price for return customers (10 percent off my original fee being downright generous) the woman told me she had found a curious item on Craig's List offering vinyl wall decals at a discounted price.
Funny, but some of this vinyl wall art sounded a lot like the samples I had shown her of my original paintings. Curious, she decided to investigate the paintings on her bedroom wall. Imagine her surprise when they peeled off with a little effort!
After this, she huffed into the phone that she had gone online and googled “vinyl wall decals.” Seems she found a site called Walls Need Love. She had ordered a decal for her son's room that cost her $35 and took only 10 minutes to apply, start to finish. When was I going to refund the extra $500 I owed her?
Quietly, I clicked off. It took only a moment to withdraw my ad from Craig's List. That new quote I created from Walls Need Love would look nice in my nephew's bedroom. I'd gotten a start on my Christmas shopping. Now I only needed to keep my head down and maybe look for a part-time job flipping burgers.
