Tuesday’s Business-Assessing Sales Opportunities

As you put together your business plan, you need to consider where you’re going to sell your work. What venues or markets you’ll target. Heck, even without a business plan, I’m sure this is something you’ll consider as you decide to sell your work.
When determining where to show and sell your work, you [...]

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Tuesday’s Business-Know Your Customers/Collectors

Thus far in our discussion on writing a business plan, we’ve talked about several components: writing goals, defining your art, and knowing who your competition is. This week the focus is on describing and knowing who your customers and collectors are.
As you put together your business plan, you need to think about who is [...]

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Tuesday’s Business: Know the Competition

Sometimes, when we enter into a small art business, we think “Hey, I’ve got this great idea.” We create our art, put together a dazzling display, take it to a show, and then, lo and behold, you find someone two booths down is doing the same thing as you!
Maybe the material is different or [...]

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Tuesday’s Business: Define Your Art

Last week we discussed writing goals as part of your business or dream into action plan. This week the focus is on defining your art.
As artists we often find ourselves working in many mediums; we like a little collage, we like wire, we like fabric and fiber, beads, paints, etc, etc. Bruce Baker [...]

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Quotable Monday

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas
in the mind
at the same time,
and still retain the ability to function.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tuesday’s Business: Writing Goals

Last week I introduced what I intend to be a weekly post on different aspects of running a small business. Because I am currently in the process of writing a business plan, I thought that might be a natural place to start.
I am using the weekly topics presented in Alyson Stanfield’s Art Salon program [...]

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Quotable Monday

If you could get up the courage to begin,
you have the courage to succeed.
-David Viscott

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Whoever said…

…that art is glamorous hasn’t used a buffing wheel.

Goggles, a mask, and thou… (and I hate those little fuzzies inside the mask.)
Lets see your “art isn’t glamorous” shots. Take a picture of yourself working on your art, on the less glamorous aspect of art, post it on your blog and link back to this [...]

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Quotable Monday

You can’t accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself.  If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: when you get the chance, go for it.
-Oprah

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Happy First Anniversary!

It seems like only a short time ago I wrote my first post on this blog and here it is, 7/1/08, and I’m celebrating my first blog anniversary!
When I started my blog, the intent was to share my thoughts on inspiration and creativity, to share what inspires me, and to share images of new work. [...]

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