The ARTISTScenter
Helping visual artists become sustainable businesses
The Thing No One Told You About Marketing
Marketing is all about networking which is about being social as in making connections that bring people to buy your stuff. How you fit those connections together as a network depends on the environment in which you need to work. The success of your network depends on everything from where you live, who lives there, who your stuff can be sold to and how much those folks are willing to pay for it. … [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
Surviving the Buyer’s Market: my first wholesale show
Deciding to do the show. So, as I was looking through Arts/Craft Show application deadlines online, I found the application for the "Buyer’s … [Read More...]
Jan talks about lessons learned
What are the most important lessons you have learned about being an artist and selling your work? Selling your work takes a lot of time! It’s an … [Read More...]
Favorite Posts
The Best of The Artists Center 2009
This past year has been a very strong and rewarding one for me and I hope the information I have brought to you on this Blog has helped you grow your … [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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