by Artist Organized | Planning, Selling Art
A few days ago my manager went to pick up art from a hotel who had called to say that after a few months, nothing had sold. When he went to pick up the art, he discovered that 1/4 of my work had actually sold. That amount, given the limited amount of time my work had...
by Artist Organized | Art & Creativity
eaching art to children is a very popular way artist make additional money. And when speaking to artist teachers, I find many expressing frustration when setting up and teaching classes. To the point that many talented, caring artists simply stop offering teaching...
by Artist Organized | Art & Creativity
“Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” – Anonymous I love this quote. It doesn’t mean you have to be a “starving artist” at any point in...
by Artist Organized | Art & Creativity
We’ve all been there. Standing in front of the canvas, our our sketch book or a blank page, trying to figure out how to start. Feeling uninspired or just even afraid to start. Or sometimes it’s maybe not that obvious. We feel a little stuck, or want to be...
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts, Selling Art
Are you guilty of promoting your business with your personal profile page? Here’s a couple reasons why having a Business Page is important. First, and most important, is that it goes against Facebook’s rules to promote/ sell on something other than a Page....
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts, Planning
The beginning of the year is always a great time to take stock of the past year and come up with some new goals, or re-emphasis of existing goals. Sometimes this process can feel like a pointless endeavor, because we can become some hung up on feeling that not all...
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts, Planning, Selling Art
Michael J Fox has said: “Do the next right thing, as opposed to doing the next thing right.” When we track what we are doing, what results we are getting, we can get better and better at tracking what is working and what is not. For example, this past year I...
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts, Selling Art
Not sure how exactly I came to have this epiphany while playing paintball but – I realized that selling art is simply another type of business. It’s no different than dry cleaning, selling advertising services or Belgian chocolate. It’s 90% business and 10%...
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts, Selling Art
There has been discussion, normally by those guilty of it, who are irritated when I remove their blatant self-promotion from one of my Facebook Fan Pages. I define spamming a wall as putting content (including pictures of your own work) without invitation to do so, on...
by Artist Organized | Nuts & Bolts
Got this question a while back, thought I’d share it with everyone, in case others had the same. Note: Since this was initially published, Costco no longer does prints. However there are now a lot of different online print shops that will. Some might even drop...
