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Just a quick note and picture to wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas.

We are working fast and furious to get this site working and looking sharper than ever. I really appreciate your patience while we get past the uglies. (Don’t even begin to ask what those photos are at right. Placeholders.) Please stay tuned. We may have instructions for subscribing to a new feed.

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

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

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

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

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.

What are the 3 most important things for pitching a story to magazines? [powerpress url=”http://artbizsuccess.com/audio/pitchmagazines.mp3″]   If you're interested in more on this topic, former magazine editor Jennifer King did a teleseminar with me entitled How to Get Your Art in Magazines, which is available for audio download and on CD. It’s not really about