I need to Remind myself every step of the way that having a marketing plan is not just about making more money or more sales, it is also about taking care of my clients after their portrait commission

Quite frankly, as working artists, our money is in our art, not our ebooks. But the encouragement and motivation we generate is priceless!

Starving Artist Sale!
I hope none of you EVER participates in a show or sale where this is the headline grabber!
“Well”, you say, “What else should we use? It IS a sale and we ARE starving!”
Humor aside, think what you are implying. You might as well yell “ART GIVEAWAY!”or “CHEAP! ALMOST FREE!”
Most of all, [...]

Adding video content to your website has become a new means of increasing traffic and raising your site in the Search Engines.

We are now in the month of January, named after the Roman god Janus. Janus had two faces, on to look forward and one to look back. That is what we need to do now.

Where does an artist who has a successful business or niche go when they want to “play?” When they want to learn something new? Where are the art groups whose camaraderie and geniality would help foster non-judgmental experimentation in the arts? Maybe working in the abstract, working with airbrush, a modeling paste, or oriental paper?

“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.”

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 [...]