The ARTISTScenter
Helping visual artists become sustainable businesses
Finding the Right Twitter Followers
One of the first and most important things to do on setting up your Twitter account is to pay attention to your profile. Your profile is the window into your life and your business and it should reflect who you are and what you do. If yoiu are going to use Twitter to connect your network it will save time and be good branding to have a consistant profile wherever you touch potential followers. … [Read More...]
Location Based Services: more than games?
Last week Facebook released its much anticipated addition to the blossoming GPS based checkin applications. In light of that release I’ve decided to spend some time taking a look at why you need to care about location based services and more importantly their applicability to working artists. While many of the applications are exclusively geared to smart phone ( iP0d touch included for this … [Read More...]
Featured Artist
Going Wholesale Part 3:Terms,Orders and General Details
Some important things to know and make sure you have on hand when venturing into a wholesale show. Order forms/ contracts (in duplicate): Although … [Read More...]
Sarah on wisdom and sharing
What are the most important lessons you have learned about being an artist and selling your work? One of the lessons that I’ve learned in the … [Read More...]
Marketing
The heart of your art business
Last week’s chapter showed us the three general buckets of tools that we can choose from when we set out on our quest for increased visibility, … [Read More...]
What you can learn from The Sodapop Stop
I ran across this on the 5000bc forum and had to share it. While it is about something altogether different than art the concepts you need to know to … [Read More...]
Favorite Posts
Knowing your buyers and building your network
The Changes that have occurred over the past year have changed the business playing field in more ways than one, and one of the biggest changes has … [Read More...]
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot…invest in yourself instead
One of the primary ways in which businesses and the people who operate them become successful is through self investment. Nothing could be more … [Read More...]
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