Artist/gallerist/curator and teacher Rhonda Schaller writes about artists finding alternative ways of thinking and exhibiting their art, including online portfolios, art registries, and how to create your own opportunities.
Vision and Strategy for Artists
In Part 1 of her guest blog on Artsy Shark, Rhonda Schaller discusses alternative methods of exhibition, alternative spaces, and exhibition models, plus a business plan exercise.
How Being a Full-Time Artist Will Change Your Life
Your vision of what your life will be like earning a living as a full-time artist changes over time. One artist’s experience of how reality changed her thinking and why that made all the difference.
10 Ways to Plan a Successful Trunk Show & Boost Your Sales
Do you have a handmade wearables line? Giving a trunk show can really boost your sales. How to plan and what to do to ensure a successful trunk show.
Yoda Teaches Art Marketing
Yoda’s classic quotes are used to present concepts of art marketing – how to promote yourself and your work and build your business.
Art Website Basics – What Every Artist Should Know!
Guest blogger John Math explains art website basics for artists to make it easy to navigate, complete and informational, and capture the emails of visitors interested in the artwork.
How to Grow Your Art Business Through Referrals
How to ask for and receive business referrals; word-of-mouth referrals, written referrals and networking are discussed.
Am I an Artist?
Guest blog by Judith Zausner about committing to identify oneself as an artist.
8 Ways to Deal with Difficult Customers
Dealing with difficult customers doesn’t have to make you crazy. Use these simple steps to defuse, and calmly resolve issues.
Build Your Twitter Art Community!
Let’s build our art community on Twitter! List your Twitter user name and your website. Join the conversation, network and share resources.
Increase Business by Building Your Personal Network
Building a personal network of friends and contacts gets you started on giving and receiving business referrals. Word of mouth is a powerful way to build business. How to make contacts, follow up and give referrals, while being open to receiving them as well.
20 Smart Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Art Website
Attract visitors and gain visibility for your art website. From including tutorials and linking to artist communities to installed Google Analytics to track visitors, all of these methods can help promote your business.
Build Your Wholesale Accounts/Exclusivity
Entrepreneurs who are wholesaling to retail stores may offer “exclusivity” to certain accounts to prevent over-saturation in a market.
Artists, Sensitivity and Confidence/Interview with Douglas Eby
Douglas Eby is a psychologist who studies giftedness, creativity and their relation to mental health issues.
