On Community, Breaking New Ground and Wisdom

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What non-traditional methods do you use to market and sell your art? For example, placing it on mugs, bags, etc. I love to create art glass jewelry with my photographs. I have two levels to fit every budget. The first are art glass pendants and rings that are priced at $15 and make perfect little … [Read more...]

WARNING: don’t spoil the holidays with your do-do.

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In the blink of an eye another year is about to pass and most of us will be making pilgrimages to our parental units or some semblance there of. Whether you return to your parental units or not, the holiday season is chuck full of times to mix and re-connect with others, some of whom you may not … [Read more...]

The Business of Art: Michelle talks about challenges and Journey

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Tell us about your marketing journey, how did you start? I really went into this blindly! I had a bit of beginner's luck: I was accepted into the first exhibit I applied for, which was really shocking to me. At the end of the four weeks, I had sold all but one piece...I simply couldn't believe other … [Read more...]

The Thing No One Told You About Marketing

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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, … [Read more...]

Day 7: Raising your hand to get noticed

Objective: Learn how to make your self visible, identify your best potential buyers, and connect with them and be the nice person you are in the process. 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 … [Read more...]

Happy Birthday Twitter!!

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D twitter Ohhhh my lile brdie who'd a thunk it? I mean really...when U were born U wer so small & look at U now Dtwitter 'member how everybody just said Soooo? But U hung in there, U knew my litle 1 Dtwitter when U turned 1 peeps thought U were so cute and a few found their inner … [Read more...]

Gathering info about Your Market

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Now that you have taken the leap into the world marketing the next important step you need to take is to start collecting, analyzing  and organizing the information you are gathering. All of the information you are collecting about your market is your intell and you are the chief analyst using … [Read more...]

Building your on-line list

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  Building an on-line list of potential buyers is a critical and complementary part of creating a strong network of followers. There are many ways to go about creating that list here are some important considerations to always be included in any list building strategy. Call to action The key to … [Read more...]

Featured Blogs…something new

Over the past few weeks I have been working on creating ways to feature Artists and their blogs in a way that encourages them to grow. Two of the ways I have come up with are Adding a feature blog Holding contests built around learning However, I have been stewing about the "How" details … [Read more...]