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.
Recent research has found that many have problems with goals both setting and achieving. A key part in this issue is the relative inflexibility with which we view goals, they are seen as something set in solid footings for a future we have no control over. Another key issue with goals is the implied judgment associated with achieving or not achieving goals…we tend to define our success in relation to our goals.
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 make your art business blossom are here. It is 12 minutes long and may be slow but keep coming back to it, each time you do you’ll learn something more. Pay attention to how he blazes his own trail trusting in his customers.
Today we wrap things up but before I do that let’s remind ourselves of the purpose of all this.
Every one of the baby steps we covered these past seven days has built on the previous one, to help you understand, where you want your business to go and who would want that stuff you make. Finally, we use all that to be seen by the people who have the problem to our solution.
Take some time to think about how you work, what steps you need to go through before each of your pieces is complete. So, filling your inventory holes may be a deadline and the steps needed to make each piece is your work flow.
The Randomizer worked all night crunching its algorithms heating the Top Secret Eyes Only Compartmentalized Computer Room to come up with the FINAL WINNER of our July contests. Once it stopped grinding and it was cool enough to enter the room my team picked up the results it spewed out.….
These first few steps of the courtship dance are all about getting her interest, you want to move her from far across the room to maybe a conversation where she can really see your coolness. Those folks wandering into your booth or gallery are doing the same thing…checking you out, seeing if there is something to connect with. This “check out” time can vary and may be longer for one of those strangers to decide to move to the next level. There are a lot of things that can happen here to push that stranger on or bring them closer.
This is going to be hard no doubt about it…approaching the outdoor art fair season has started to stir up that whole “how much do I charge” thing. While right now it is a concern for these artistic nomads it cannot be ignored by any artist but many do..I did when I was throwing pots, and in fact I still do. Money, Money, Money the mere mention of the word causes many a stomach to tighten and even more so now. It is the source of a lot of pain to a lot of folks and I venture to say even more so for those of us who create for a living.
Ya…that thing that starts with an “M” that makes you cring, vomit and curl up in a ball in the corner. And, we have ranted and raved abut this quite a lot so let’s see how you can leverage what you are doing.….
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