Comments on: Lessons From The Past Year

By: Best Performing art collage in India

Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:14:01 +0000

Awesome post thanks admin good work i really impressed by your informatic post

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By: Laura Jeanne Yoder

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:44:44 +0000

I am new in the art business and not quite ready to start into a full-time job. As I transition out of homeschooling my kids for 25 years, I am creating art and starting to sell it. You have given me new inspiration to be more succinct in how I am spending my energy. Thank you for your website and the positive but realistic message of hard work and “don’t sell yourself to cheap”. I first came here because I have been approached about giving an art workshop and needed a guide for pricing. I found so much more and will continue to read all of the other rich jewels your experience and knowledge offers. Thank you Jeanne Yoder

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:21:45 +0000

In reply to Jeanna Delfin.

Way to go, Jeanna! Sounds like a very productive year.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:20:49 +0000

In reply to Patricia Coulter.

Exactly! It’s amazing how grateful people are for that additional reminder.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:16:41 +0000

In reply to Ayn Hanna.

You’ve done a great job of this, Ayn. Do you think your corporate job helped you do this?

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By: Jeanna Delfin

Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:25:05 +0000

Thank you, Alyson. I love this post. My favorite business lessons of 2015:

1) “You can’t do it all.” Your words rang clear to me. We, as artists, need to focus. In 2015, I focused on building my brand over these three words that define my artistic brand: quality, passion, and refinement.

The “quality” of the posts was more important to me than the quantity of posts on Instagram, my blog, and Facebook. I made sure that my images were clean and well-composed.

I read other blogs and researched. I also made sure that my words were well thought-out.

2) I focused on my budget and put the money into these important business decisions: a bit of marketing education (i.e. Artbiz webinars) and a total website and brand makeover. For two years I was not happy with the overall functionalality and *message* of my website and blog, so I hired a website programmer and designer to re-do it.

I also spent (lots of) time re-writing my artist statement and personal story.

Now I am happy with my new website and blog–it feels like “home” to me!

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By: Patricia Coulter

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:37:47 +0000

I have learned that people need reminding! Even though I may have posted an informative post about an upcoming art show, I now know that I need to say it again and again, each time in a unique way! Often people have said they were glad of the last minute reminder, etc. I was always afraid of being annoyingly repetitive but people seem to need the memory jogs!

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By: Ayn Hanna

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:17:20 +0000

Such a great list Alyson, thanks for sharing this. One of my favorite lessons that I’ve learned more than once: One of the best things I’ve done to help grow my art career is devote the time to setting up my systems for managing and tracking my work, and keeping my website and marketing content updated, while also continuing to balance this with studio time to make new work – basically operating as a professional artist.

Being organized and able to quickly respond with images of available work, artist statement and other collateral allowed me to take on two big show opportunities – one a solo show at a credited Museum – which I otherwise couldn’t have done. Putting myself and my art out there professionally has returned that energy back to me in a big way!

Thanks for all your great teachings. Wishing you very happy holidays,
Ayn

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By: Josephine A. Geiger

Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:24:31 +0000

The biggest lesson I put into practice was saying “No”. This enabled me to say “YES” to what was most important.
There were so many other lessons that accumulated through the year, and one of the best was taking your Bootcamp and actually applying many of those lessons to grow by leaps an bounds! 🙂

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