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soccer moms artists and Etsy

Why you don’t need bargain hunters

let's talk by Bill

The cur­rent rebel­lion over under­pric­ing soc­cer moms on Etsy has got­ten a lot of other artists’ undies in a bun­dle. There are few options for artists to sell their work on-line so the sites that offer all the things that make us cre­atives shud­der like credit card pro­cess­ing, store front design etc., are very enticing.

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Etsy, cheap art and the issue of change

The issue of cheap art, Etsy and change let's talk by Bill

The cul­ture of cheap took hold a long time ago and we are now see­ing the extreme results. Ellen Rup­pel Shell’s excel­lent book “Cheap: The High Cost of Dis­count Cul­ture” really cov­ers the issue. Also Dan Ariely’s book “Pre­dictably Irra­tional” pro­vides new insights through research he and oth­ers con­ducted at MIT and elsewhere.

The cul­ture of cheap took hold a long time ago and we are now see­ing the extreme results. Ellen Rup­pel Shell’s excel­lent book “Cheap: The High Cost of Dis­count Cul­ture” really cov­ers the issue. Also Dan Ariely’s book “Pre­dictably Irra­tional” pro­vides new insights through research he and oth­ers con­ducted at MIT and elsewhere.

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Lorrie talks about the importance of sharing wisdom

2010 by Bill

Each of the artists fea­tured here has made efforts to develop emerg­ing artists through what­ever ways work best, whether through teach­ing, lend­ing a hand with a new­comer on Etsy or other on line venues or just mak­ing friends with some­body new to the scene. One of the impor­tant traits of a leader is their secu­rity in the unique­ness of their work and their knowl­edge that while tech­nique may be copied style and vision can­not be.

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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 best of 2009 from the artists center

All about the “M” word

General marketing tips by Bill

Mar­ket­ing has not had a good rep, par­tic­u­larly among us cre­ative types, we like to see our­selves as above such mun­dane things as hav­ing to sell our work. How­ever, the hard truth is unless we are inde­pen­dently wealth, win the lot­tery or have a rich aunt we have to mar­ket our work.

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The best of 2009 from the artists center

Don’t shoot yourself in the foot…invest in yourself instead

The ARTISTSscenter best of by Bill

One of the pri­mary ways in which busi­nesses and the peo­ple who oper­ate them become suc­cess­ful is through self invest­ment. Noth­ing could be more impor­tant than own­ers of of small busi­nesses to invest in the tools and train­ing they need to suc­cess­fully oper­ate and grow their busi­ness to the level that matches their vision. Self […]

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The best of 2009 from the artists center

Knowing your buyers and building your network

The ARTISTSscenter best of by Bill

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 been in the way small busi­nesses can mar­ket them­selves. While net­work­ing was part of the “old way” of doing things its’ effec­tive­ness often left a lot to be desired, not the least of which was the lim­ited ways in which small busi­nesses could con­nect to their buy­ers and poten­tial buyers.

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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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jan blencowe the artists center featured artist on business challenges

Jan Blencowe talks about business and marketing

2009 by Bill

I began a blog for my daily paint­ings in 2005, inspired by the cre­ator of the paint­ing a day move­ment Duane Keiser. After being fea­tured in an arti­cle in Domino Mag­a­zine with Keiser and sev­eral other “daily painters” sales took off and many more oppor­tu­ni­ties came because of that exposure.

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