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Profile: Kristen Stein on Roots and Inspiration
What mediums have you worked in and which is your favorite? I am a contemporary artist working primarily with acrylics on canvas. I occasionally dabble in pastels and oils. I love working in mixed media and often add gritty, grainy te...
Marketing Monday: Truth about Getting Real
Last week I talked about how potential buyers can’t be buyers if they can’t find you and I showed you lots of different ways to make yourself visible. Visibility by itself is not going to guarantee sales you’ll have to do......
Marketing Monday: The Art of Being a Beacon
Last week we talked about the importance of knowing who is likely to buy your work and what it is your work does for them that makes them want it. The importance of really getting down and working out something that reflects both you and your ......
Marketing Mondays: Don’t miss the real costs
The final step in this part of the game, kind of involves looking backwards. See, the venues and the details required to turn them into winners is not free, and I’m not just talkin’ about money either. There is......
Jane Campbell talks about Marketing
Tell us about your marketing journey How did you start? Wow it has been a “journey”! Just a few years ago, which seems like only months, I had no idea what a blog was, -html, a widget, etc… It has been ......
Jane Campbell on roots and influences
First, tell me about your work? My work is full of color, fun, it’s folky but with a modern/contemporary edge. 90% of the time I sit down to a blank canvas, nothing drawn out or preconcieved, and......
Jane Campbell talks about vision and lessons
What is your vision for your art? This is a difficult question because art is an evolution of self. It’s living. My vision for my art today may not be the same in a year or 2 or 3 or… At this point my vision is to honor God ......
Marketing Monday: Getting Focused
The problem Most people identify themselves by a label when they are asked what they do or even when they think of themselves in terms of their work. So you might identify yourself as an artist or, I might think of myself as a photographer, well as.....
Christy DeKoning on vision, sales and advice
What is your vision for your art? To create something uniquely beautiful that captures a moment in a person’s life. What do you see your working doing for those who buy it?......
Christy DeKoning on Marketing Art
Tell us about your marketing journey… How did you start? When did you discover that you needed to market? It’s funny, but marketing seems to have come naturally to me. I ......
Marketing Monday: 8 Ways to Turn Fans Into Missionaries
So people have said they luv your work and they know a lot of folks who would luv it also but your studio doors aren’t coming unhinged by hoards of adoring fans from “what’s her name”. What’s that all ......
“Peoplewatch” your way to your perfect buyer
So the show season is almost in full swing and you are beginning to shlep your stuff hither and yon to all corners of this country. If you are a gallery shower you might be shlepping or you may just be busy cold calling local ......
14 ways to come home empty handed
Regardless of how or where you sell you stuff you may be unconsciously causing folks to move on down the road. Because, even though they really want to buy your stuff......
Marketing Monday: Back to the Future
Since we are doing this the sensible way and getting all of our ducks in a row before we even crack the ballroom door we need to shift the time -space continuum ......
Robin Pedrero: Lessons & Advice For Artists
What are the most important lessons you have learned about being an artist and selling your work? I have learned to value my art and time . To not let negative talk infect my work or attitude. I weed toxic ......
Profile: Christy DeKoning, artist
Christy DeKoning grew up in Sydney, Australia . With formal training in singing and classical ballet, Christy worked as a vocalist on the Vancouver music scene in the early 90’s, and then as ......
Marketing Monday: Courtship The Unlinear Way
Ok… now is the time to really, take a close look at this whole courtship thing and see how it works ….but first let’s revisit everything, briefly. Remember, the steps your buyers will be taking, first there is the sighting and the d...
Marketing Monday: Still doing the same old stuff?
Recently a couple of things boinked me on the head (not literally!!) that helped me remember that I needed to remind folks of. See, now is the time especially for those nomadic artists out there to suck it up, kick those......
Marketing Monday: the thread that unites
We have talked until the cows came home about how all of your marketing JuJu is really based on what you want that ittybiz of yours to be when it grows up …so all I’m going to say here is revisit your vision. Just sit......
Artsyfartsy Biz Inspiration: Featured Artists
A few weeks ago we launched our Artsyfartsy Biz Award program and recognized five artists who have actively developed their art into a business. They have each followed their own intuition and instincts to make sure their art gets out......
Worried about losing your creative mojo?
Are you afraid to commit to really incorporate business skills and tools because you might lose your creative mojo? Do you have trouble adding up 2+2 to get 4? Have you shied away from thinking about business because it......
Marketing Monday: be a profiler
Before you can really think about developing a relationship it might be a good idea to think seriously about who it is you want to relate to!! Remember when you were dating you probably didn’t say “I ......
Artist Alert: watch this now!
If you have doubts about all this tech stuff and why you need it to succeed from here on out watch this video! Then tell me what you think…is......
