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submitted by ThePiachu
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Dear Papa Bear,

I started making these journals that I call Soul Journals as a hobby at first. It is started to get expensive and I want to continue. I have just recently joined Furaffinity.net and started posting my journals up to adopt out. So far I haven't sold anything. I have plenty of people comment on how they wish they had one. In order to try to gain some support, I have posted up a free giveaway. Simple rules is that they must watch me, comment on a journal and post a journal about the give away on their page. Two weeks have passed and I have only had two hits. So far that is not much of a raffle and I will end up losing money with no support. Now I am trying to figure out other means to get support without sound pushy. Any ideas?

Thanks with all my love,

Ravensylvarii

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Dear Ravensylvarii,

Well, I can tell you that marketing to furries can be very difficult. For instance, I opened up a store of Ask Papabear items with a very nice drawing by my cubby Dan the Bear, and I have not sold anything. My site has gotten very popular, and I have spent hundreds of dollars on it. While I am not writing the advice column to get rich, it would be nice to sell a few things to cover my expenses.

Anyway, I looked at your FA page and your journals are quite beautiful. I do notice, though, that only one of them has furries on it, the rest are all flowers and butterflies. Now, while these are very pretty, perhaps you might do better by creating journals with different furry species on them since that is who you are marketing to. You might also try getting a table at a furcon or two and selling your journals in the dealers’ den.

I would also like to suggest, however, that you don’t restrict yourself to the furry market. I think your journals would have a very broad appeal to many people outside the fandom, especially women and young girls. If I were you, I would gather up a bunch of my journals and take them to local gift shops (not chains like Hallmark, but locally owned stores) and see if I could get some interest there. Also, book shops would probably sell journals like yours.

Too, set up a website (you can get them very cheap now), print up some business cards, and go out and sell!

Take your hobby seriously and I believe you can create a real business out of it. You are making a mistake by restricting yourself to the furry community. Your journals have mass market appeal and are quite beautiful.

Good luck!

Papabear

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With all the online connectivity X/Y is getting, I think it should only be proper that /r/Furry let's it be known who has what.

I'm getting X because my mate and my mom are getting Y.

What is everyone else getting? Let others know so that those who have no local Trainers to trade with, we know who has what so we can make an informed decision on which you're picking up.

Also, I'm prooobably going to start with the Plant starter, because I always start Green. I'll totally want a fire fox at some point though. Let me know if anyone will be willing to trade a foxy fox for something!

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Author: rodney Here’s another of those “How did we miss this?” kind of things: Some of you might be familiar with the surreal works of Jim Woodring, especially his wordless funny animal comic Frank. Based on his own colorful dreams (and, some would say, rather scary dreams!), Frank follows the adventures of a “generic anthropomorph” […]

submitted by Black_Muzzle
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Here’s another of those “How did we miss this?” kind of things: Some of you might be familiar with the surreal works of Jim Woodring, especially his wordless funny animal comic Frank. Based on his own colorful dreams (and, some would say, rather scary dreams!), Frank follows the adventures of a “generic anthropomorph” (to use the creator’s words) across a surreal landscape known as The Unifactor. Well in 2011, Jim Woodring completed his first graphic novel starring Frank,  Congress of the Animals. Frank’s world becomes even stranger, if possible, when he is forced to venture outside of the frightening yet familiar realm of The Unifactor and into the larger world around him. Fantagraphics is again offering this full-color graphic novel in hardcover at Amazon and other sellers. Attention Deficit Disorderly has an extensive review as well — one likely to make your head spin in fact.

Image. c. 2013 Fantagraphics Books

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Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. - George Carlin

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Author: Fred Love it or hate it, you gotta admit that Pocket Monsters, a.k.a. Pokémon, are anthropomorphic. In Japan, “monsters” are any fantasy animals; “pocket monsters”, like

Author: Dear, Papa Bear. I have been having this mental conundrum for quite some time and generally it began like half way into my 16 years of being a furry. I am not writing this to bash any one or to shame a group but I just want to have a bit more of an […]

Author: Smokescale Aquatos Howdy there! This is Fuzzy Logic, episode 94, Working Title! (we kinda didn’t make up a name for this one). Kyo could not be present due to the government shut down requiring him to spend more time stabbing hookers. Isty, Halfwit, and Smokey are still here to prattle on about all sorts […] Fuzzy Logic: Episode 94 – Working Title