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...]

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...]

Minning the Twittterverse with minimal time

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Twitter is one of the best and easiest tools to use to crete a network for your business...but many artists I talk with either a) see it as a time suck b) see it as a toy for kids or c) don't see it as part of their job description. The biggest of the three objections seems to be time suck but I … [Read more...]

More Twitter stuff for Mac Tweeters

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A couple of days ago I was alerted to new Twitter client thing to help you with your twitterings  the big whoop about this is that it is exclusive for Mac users and designed to work like a normal Mac applications. While I still have a lot of affection for TweetDeck it does have some issues that … [Read more...]

Doing your Do Diligence

  Back in the PI (pre-internet) era if you wanted to learn how your market thought, how they made their buying decisions and what they bought you really had little in the way of accurate research tools to draw on. You could set up a focus group and have folks tell you what you wanted to hear, you … [Read more...]

Four important easy things

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  Instead of a big long thing today I'm going to share a collection of small things...things I've learned, thought about, stumbled over, avoided and always had a kernal of an article in them. And trust me they all fit together.... No! I won't do it... One of my children was particularly stubborn … [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...]

Tech Tips for the left brain challenged

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Starting today we will have another regularly scheduled series. This series will be focused on technology tips and short cuts that can help artists. We will include tips for beginners as well as experienced computer and internet users. The series will be called  Tech Tips ( pretty creative … [Read more...]

Twitter and the Daily Show

Jon Stewart and Sam Bee talk about Twitter, twitterers,twits,tweets and those who use them. … [Read more...]