28 Questions for When Your Art Isn’t Selling
Have you noticed a downturn regarding your art sales? Use this checklist which reviews four areas to evaluate and help turn your sales around.
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Should Your Older Art Be Put Out to Pasture?
Poor things. They’re barely three years old and they’re already considered past their prime. I’m not talking about the horses running the Triple Crown races this year. I’m talking about your art – where you should and shouldn’t show aging work.
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Twitter Tweekly for May 6 2012
Some of my most helpful tweets from the past 3 weeks are highlighted in this post. Tweets for productivity, learning art history, social media, and your art business in general.
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A Philosophy for Titling Artwork
Is it better to have titles for your art are open to interpretation or titles are descriptive and give clues to viewers?
I asked this question years ago and lots of artists chimed in.
Share your thoughts and read what others said in the comments.
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May Day! May Day!
Are you prepared if you are affected by a natural disaster or computer crash? Craig Nutt, artist and Director of Programs for CERF+, shares what you can do RIGHT NOW to lessen your losses.
Attracting Crowds at the Coffee Shop
Like many of us, Barbara McKee gets cabin fever and just needs to get out of her home studio. About 3-4 times a week, she packs up her watercolors and heads to the local coffee shop – to paint. The biggest advantage is meeting new people. The bonus advantage is that no cats are around to paw at her water or get hair in her work.
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Too commercial?
What does it mean for an artist to be “too commercial”? Is it possible for an artist to be “too commercial”? Do you envy people who are bold with their commercial-ness? What is the upside of commerciality?
Why You Need to Write About Art
Consider becoming an arts writer/reviewer of other artists’ work. Writers are needed in the art ecosystem as critics and reviewers shape taste and are the gatekeepers that decide what is worthy of attention. Most importantly, the more you write about any art, the better you will become at writing about your own art.
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Blog Post Styling for More Engaged Readers
When you write for the Web, make sure your main points are easy to find and that your text is scannable. People will look briefly at a blog post to see if it’s of interest to them. If they see nothing immediately, they might leave without reading.
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Doing It Your Way
What piece of common business advice have you decided isn’t for you? Or …
What marketing material or platform have you stopped using?
Deep Thought Thursday
