When you own your own business, it’s important to look at expenses as well as income in order to remain profitable. I looked into various (not all – not even education or supplies and materials!) expenses for artists and thought it might be interesting to share the results. Feel free to add to our completely […]
What Your Art Business Will Cost You Read
In the beginning months and years of Art Biz Success, I thought of my services as a one-stop shop. Bad idea. It’s never a good idea to try to be everything because you then become known for nothing.
Over the years, I have learned to work to my strengths, which include helping artists with foundational marketing pieces like building mailing lists, nurturing relationships, and improving professional presentation.
Regarding other business services for artists, I am happy to have had long-standing relationships with the following people. I consider them to be my team of experts. We’re partners in helping you share your gifts with more people, and I confidently recommend each of them.
I Recommend These Services for Your Art Business Read
You are up to your eyeballs in unsold work!
What you’d really like to do is just get rid of it. It’s taking up your energy and you can’t afford to rent storage just for early work.Deep Thought: What do you do with early work that hasn’t sold and no one seems to want?
Earlier Work Hasn't Sold: What to Do? Read
In my last post, I made the case that your blog is a gold mine for you. What I didn’t say is that it’s only a gold mine if you are consistently committed to blogging and to improving with each post. You can only fulfill this commitment with rich content.
Searching for Content for Your Artist Blog Read
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.
New to Art Biz Coach and Art Biz Blog? Read
I highly recommend the book Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, a book of 40 artist essays edited by Sharon Louden.
From these successful artists, you’ll discover: You are not alone . . . The life of an artist doesn’t get easier with success. More people depend on you as you add to your list of obligations . . .
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Book Review Read
Today, February 3, is my birthday and I hope you’ll celebrate with me. It would be meaningful to know that you had a really good day on February 3. So I outlined 8 (my favorite number) things that I thought would make for a next-to-perfect day.
Have a Good Day with Me – Time Sensitive Read
I thought we should get a pulse on health insurance since everyone else is talking about it.
Deep Thought . . . .Do you have health insurance? Did you get it for you as an individual or through work or a spouse?
Have you tried to access health insurance through the HealthCare.gov site? Or have you used a state exchange?
Artists and Health Insurance Read
I have published 145 posts on this blog in 2013 – so far.
Deep Thoughts received most of the comments, but there were also some surprises – including the most commented-on post of the year.
The Hot Winners >> Exploring lower-priced work to increase your income. Affordable Art as an Option . . .
Hottest Art Biz Blog Posts of 2013 Read
I seem to be recommending mind maps to artists with great frequency these days, so I thought it would be useful to review what they are and how you can use them in your art business. A mind map is a tool for brainstorming or organizing your ideas. Mind maps are great for creatives and artists because they put words and ideas in a visual format.
Mind Mapping Your Ideas and Events Read
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