First annual handmade Holiday Gift Guide featuring selected artists. Each artist has a link directly to their sales venues in addition to their web sites and contact information. The first group of artists are our Featured Artists selected because of their oputstanding talent as artists, business savvy, as well as their willingness to step up and lead within the art community.
Welcome to the first annual ARTISTScenter holiday gift guide. As a way of saying thanks to all of you fellow creative souls I’ve decided to set up a section within the blog to provide you with another way to be seen and hopefully receive some extra income over the holidays.
For quite some time now I have been thinking about how a Credo of sorts could be set up that would help to guide artists of all kinds on their quest to integrate their art with business. Moreover, I was looking for a tool that could help artists solidify their importance to our growth as a culture and reinforce their value and the value of their work in bringing their visions to fruition.
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 galleries. Either way now is the time to start thinking about some very important stuff…like where is this artsyfartsy biz of yours going and how can you not starve.
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 there is something getting in the way, so they leave your booth, your gallery or your web site. Well what’s the big whoop about that? Turns out a lot, because you are not only losing that one sale you are likely also losing any other potential sales from that customer just because of that one bad experience…
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 hurts your brain? Do you think in images and can never quite get things going in a strait line like figuring out what and where you want to go with your business? Are you resigned to being a starving artist?
Our first batch of artsyfartsy bizes who have definitly earned the title of artsyfartsy biz.
Please take a badge, and display it proudly because you are the models for today and future’s art businesses…you deserve it.
To learn what it takes to become an artsyfartsy biz go here What’s an artsytartsy biz?
Twitter is one of the best and easiest tools to use to crete a network for your business…but many artists I talk with either a) see it as a time suck b) see it as a toy for kids or c) don’t see it as part of their job description.
A couple of days ago I was alerted to new Twitter client thing to help you with your twitterings the big whoop about this is that it is exclusive for Mac users and designed to work like a normal Mac applications. While I still have a lot of affection for TweetDeck it does have some issues that I don’t like…mainly its’ resource vacuuming tendencies and unwillingness to let go of memory. The latest release addressed the memory issue and seemed to have improved its’ ability to play with other applications.
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