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©July Cady Ryan, The Time Stealer. Acrylic, 12 x 12 inches. Used with permission.

Are These 4 Time-Stealers Robbing You of a Successful Art Career?

A student in my class asked last week on a coaching call, “Where do you find the time?”

After I gave him my answers and we hung up from the call, I thought: There’s no such thing as finding time. We have time. It’s up to us how we choose to use it.

Then I thought about time bandits. I came up with four big things that rob us of that time.

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Twitter Tweekly for March 9, 2014

My top tweets from the past couple of weeks @abstanfield. >>>
You might benefit fr this intvw I did with @nordicArtists nordicartists.com/alyson-stanfie…
Art is the worst performing collectible fw.to/gObQ3hk

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Ayn Hanna and Barbara Gilhooly at the Visionary Art Museum. Photo courtesy the artists and used with permission.

Turn On Your Cell Phones

What if, instead of worrying about everyone with a cell phone camera in front of your art, you encouraged taking photos and sharing? Don’t dismiss this right away. Let me explain. On two occasions I have witnessed audiences embrace a speaker or situation that encouraged photography.
Here’s how those went down.

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New to Art Biz Coach and Art Biz Blog?

The Art Biz Blog is the blog for Art Biz Coach, which offers services and products to help artists build profitable businesses. One of my goals for Art Biz Coach over the next year or so is to simplify and streamline. I want to make it easy for new visitors to figure out where they should go on my sites.
If you’re new here, I offer 6 tips for finding your way through the 2400+ posts as well as the artist services and products.

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Twitter Tweekly for February 23 2014

I’ve been riding the stationary bike every morning, which means I have time to catch up on reading. I found some good stuff to tweet during the past couple of weeks. Here are the best of them.
Craft Artist Income Survey: Income survey of craft artists – good to know craftemergency.org/outreach/repor… via @craftemergency . . .

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