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marketing monday the art of going pro

The Art of Going Pro: an identity crisis

2010 by Bill

The lan­guage we use to describe our­selves, what we do, how we do it and how we frame our responses to deci­sions, is directly related to how we are in the world and how oth­ers expe­ri­ence us…it seals our iden­tity and in turn describes our vocation.

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how artist can save the world

Save the Artist Save the World

2010 by Bill

cre­at­ing art is a rev­o­lu­tion­ary act it changes things, it changes the way we see the world and more impor­tantly effects the way those who see and get our work also see the world.
cre­at­ing art is not about fol­low­ing direc­tions, it’s not about “doing the right thing” , it’s not about fit­ting in and it’s not about pre­cisely emu­lat­ing a style.

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ted talks for artists

Leading your followers, sliced bread, whales, Twitter,and history

let's talk by Bill

Note: This was orig­i­nally posted Tues­day 2/9/10 but taken down due to code con­flicts that were effect­ing the site’s per­for­mance. I’ve fixed the bugs so these out­stand­ing TED talks could be avail­able to you.

The fol­low­ing TED talks occurred last year, they talk mostly about change and the shift we are all feel­ing. More impor­tantly they also offer insights into the depth of the shift and pos­si­bly if you lis­ten care­fully glimpses into what our pos­si­bil­i­ties can be. We are lucky to be liv­ing in the time because his­tory is being made to the scale of sig­nif­i­cance as the print­ing press, elec­tric­ity and the tele­phone. Each speaker pro­vides a dif­fer­ent point of view from a dif­fer­ent van­tage point of the same thing.

Seth Godin

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self investment is important for small business

Getting Started on the right foot: part III

2010 by Bill

If you cut cor­ners on tools, you’ll end up more often than not, increas­ing your pro­duc­tion time, decreas­ing your mar­gin, and ulti­mately your prof­its. A com­mon out­come is not pay­ing your­self and that doesn’t help anybody.

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Guest writer Lorrie Whittington

Art is for all…or rather, all can draw, or rather…all SHOULD draw.

2010 by Lorrie Whittington

I have lost count of the peo­ple who have said to me, when hav­ing told them I am an artist, or that I had stud­ied art at Uni­ver­sity, how much they loved art at and paint­ing at school. How much they loved draw­ing or paint­ing as children.

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The Artists center featured artist Lorrie Whittington

Lorrie talks about business and art

2010 by Bill

My mar­ket­ing jour­ney has not been as well planned as I would have hoped or advo­cate. How­ever, I did write down some SMART goals of what I wished to achieve, and wrote a loose busi­ness plan, which I need to update. Hav­ing done some busi­ness courses, the skills and tools I learnt from those have stood me in good stead, par­tic­u­larly when it comes to plan­ning, mar­ket­ing and mea­sur­ing performance.

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artists center featured artist Jan Blencowe

Jan talks about lessons learned

2009 by Bill

Sell­ing your work takes a lot of time! It’s an entirely new area for most artists. You need to get edu­cated about sales, mar­ket­ing and the busi­ness end of art, that’s as impor­tant as tak­ing work­shops and classes for paint­ing. The sec­ond most impor­tant thing is learn­ing to find the bal­ance between cre­at­ing art and run­ning the busi­ness side. It’s really impor­tant to embrace the busi­ness side of your art and approach it with as much enthu­si­asm and cre­ativ­ity as your artwork.

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best of 2009

Building an Art Business

Building an Art buisiness by Bill

One of the pri­mary sub­jects of 2009 was build­ing a sus­tain­able busi­ness from your art, a busi­ness that could sup­port you so you could do what you love. This group of arti­cles focuses on key issues start­ing with build­ing your home base and end­ing with learn­ing the real costs of business.

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artists center featured artist Jan Blencowe

Breaking new Ground & community building

2009 by Bill

There are so many ways to invite peo­ple to share your jour­ney on the inter­net. My web­site has an RSS feed that peo­ple can sub­scribe to and then they will receive alerts every time I add some­thing new there. Then there’s my daily paint­ing blog, read­ers can sub­scribe and get the daily post in their inbox, there’s also a new blog­ger fea­ture in the side­bar that allows peo­ple to actu­ally become a “fol­lower” of my blog.

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