Greatest Hits (Posts) of 2009
In case you missed any posts during the last 12 months, I’ve selected one from each month to call your attention to. Here they are: The Greatest Hits from the Art Biz Blog from 2009.
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Merry Christmas
Just a quick note and picture to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.
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You found our new blog home!
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Twitter Book Club Summer 09: de Kooning
Starting June 8, a crew of us on Twitter are reading and tweeting about the Pulitzer Prize winning book, de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Join us! It’s FREE! All you have to do is 1. Pick up a copy of the book (here’s my Amazon link) and join in
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Excuses for Using Regular Mail
In this week’s Art Marketing Action, I encourage you not to give up on using old-fashioned snail mail. In this, my 1400th post!, let’s look at some of the mail pieces you can send. Postcards with your images on them. There are good reasons postcards are so popular with artists. It’s inexpensive to produce large
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Read “de Kooning” with us this summer
The Pulitzer Prize winning biography of abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning has been sitting on my shelf far too long. I need some accountability so I’m forming a Twitter book club. Here’s what I know so far. The @abstanfield Twitter book club reading of de Kooning: An American Master begins Monday, June 8. We’ll
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Deep Thought Thursday: Working 9 to 5?
How many hours a week should a full-time artist devote to his or her career?This Deep Thought comes from a recent guest post in which Michael Shane Neal mentioned the importance of working art–citing 12-18-hour days. (He didn’t mention if that was 7 days a week or 5 days a week.) What is necessary and
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Why do we spend time online?
I think it's important for marketing anything online to know why and how people use the Internet. Yesterday, I asked my followers on Twitter: Why do people spend time online?This is my original list: InformationEntertainment Inspiration Connection (Socializing, not wanting to miss out on anything–feeling a part of a community)These were added over the course
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Free webinar on copyright–Tuesday, Jan 27
Attorney and friend of artists, Kevin Houchin, is giving a free webinar on copyright–Tuesday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. He says it's tailored to authors, but applicable to all creative fields. Get the details and register.
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