HAPY NEW YEAR! Today’s Art Marketing Action is to Dream Big. Dream big when you’re setting your goals and life plan. Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something–especially don’t listen to those who tell you you can’t be an artist. While dreaming is important, it’s your goals and actions that will move you […]
Dreams to Vision to Goals Read
Happy Winter Solstice to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere. (I guess it’s summer solstice in the South???) I digress to share the fruits of our recent blizzard. What does one do with so much snow and no place to put it? Go up! Build a snowman (or should I say "snow sculpture"?). That’s just what
UPDATE 2016: Colorado Art Ranch has closed down. Grand Pound, Executive Director for Colorado Art Ranch, asks that I share this information with you. Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Speak at Colorado Art Ranch Artposium in Salida, Colorado Colorado Art Ranch, a nonprofit residency program for artists and writers, is thrilled to announce that Christo
Artist Residencies in Colorado Read
The current issue of Sunshine Artist magazine has an article by Cameron Meier that names the top ten “non-documentary films that have art and artists as their subject matter.” [My amateur-critic comments in brackets.] 10. Surviving Picasso (1996)[I almost walked out of this film when I saw it in the theater. I thought it was
Relevant anchor links mean that instead of creating a link on your blog or website that is a URL (www.artbizcoach.com) or is meaningless (click here), you create a link to meaningful text. Here are some examples: Art marketing classes from ArtBizCoach.com fast, easy artist websites web designer Pat Velte Think about terms you use to
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Laura Lein-Svencner writes: I have been offered the opportunity to have a piece of my work [pictured here] published in an 9-12th grade educational bilingual art/photograph book this winter. I’ve done some surfing around and put out some emails to the artists that have dealt with the company. My question is what is a fair
Fair Fee for Reproducing Your Art? Read
Here I am with Paula Christen (on the right). Paula single-handedly organized the entire–and might I break for a moment to insert “and highly successful”–Art Marketing Action workshop in Winthrop, Washington. Paula is proof positive that artists can do this themselves. In fact, the best workshops I’ve had have been organized by individual artists. (I
It only takes a single artist . . . Read
If you set your art prices ahead of time and know why they are where they are, you should be confident in standing firmly behind them. (Download my guide, How to Price Your Art.) If you haven’t done this already, take time to make up a chart for your prices: Artworks based on size. Artworks
Make a Pricing Chart for Your Art Read
The statistics Jerry Saltz lays out in his Village Voice column “Art and apartheid: The prime real estate is still a men’s club” will get any serious female artist’s blood boiling. At least they should! Read the article and promise to do what you can to ameliorate those wretched numbers for women artists in New
Oh, boy! I’m in a state of overwhelm. I finally (FINALLY!) signed up for PRWeb.com. This is long overdue. And I have set a goal to post at least one press release a month through the end of the year. This led me to take a free introductory “webinar” with PRWeb.com, which was definitely worth
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This event is coming up soon. Will you come?
