“I have NO time to be an artist. What with the children, my job, my in-laws, the after school sports, all the meetings. There just aren’t enough hours in the day! And by the end of the day I am too tired to think about it. Maybe when I retire.”

For those of you who sell or are thinking about selling on Ebay, read this message! This was on another Board and I followed the instructions and yes indeed, my default for Ebay using any of my photos was on “yes.” Follow the steps below to disable this. Notice that this would include photos of [...]

With July behind us, we have hit the home stretch for the end of the year. Now is an excellent time to look at the business plans we all talked about (and you made) in January and see what the results have been so far. It’s pretty easy to know what you have been able [...]

From Steve of ACE: Here is my reply to a recent letter from Robert Genn on Aggressive Artists. I have severely edited it, there is much I would like to add. Here is the link to his letter, I am reluctant to copy it here. http://clicks.robertgenn.com/aggressive-artist.php I will try to keep this short, but I [...]

Slumps ARE a normal part of any business. But to successfully pull your Art business out of the slump and make it through these economically challenging times, you need a plan.

Last time we talked about the emotional tolls that being an artist brings about. It is a challenging job because the creation process in and of itself is so innately personal. Successes and failures are too often taken to heart, and not viewed in a detached or business like fashion. Please visit this article to see how you might best prepare yourself for the emotional journey of becoming an artist.

The Artist’s Creative Zone- The Key to Zoning out. M Theresa Brown The Creative Zone. It’s where all artists want to be. Whether you create your art product for pleasure or create it for profit, the Zone is that artistic level where an artist is in tune with his creative process and everything else is [...]

Every so often I run across some great articles where I feel the content is SO appropriate that it is necessary to share much of the article as it was written!  It would be very interesting to see if this documentary becomes available to a wider audience. Arlington, Mass. – The highly acclaimed documentary, “Who [...]

There is such an information overload on the Internet these days that it’s a wonder that an artists gets anything done! TV shows, world news, local news, family emails, client emails, weird news,computer games,Facebook, Twitter……just to writ it all down is exhausting! To turn on your computer means you are lost for several hours!

A huge mistake that beginner art marketers make is to forget about their old customers.  This may not sound accurate to  you if you are a new marketer but assuming that you are now now done with a former client once they have purchased from you is a huge mistake.  You may think that since [...]