Last week, I led you through the essential criteria to consider when choosing a platform for crowdfunding a project. Now that you’ve done your research and made your choice, how do you bring home the win when the clock is ticking and you’re one of thousands and thousands of projects listed on the site? Fear […]
Why Being A Square Peg is Now Your Greatest Art Sales Asset
I first realized that I wasn’t choosing the easiest route through life on a visit to the school careers teacher. “I want to be an artist!” His response was to produce reams of statistics “proving” exactly how many ways this was a bad idea. Did you know that its statistically provable that anyone daring to […]
What Happened: How My Business Mistakes Led to Following My Bliss
This is the 4th and final post in a series on the evolution and re-evolution of an art business. To read the backstory, see parts 1, 2 and 3. —- Sometimes it seems that the only thing that gets me to make a change is a hearty wallop upside the head by the universe. As […]
My Stupid Business Mistakes: 8 Lessons to Prevent You from Losing Money & Looking Dumb
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I shared how I became an artist quite by accident, and slowly built up a sustainable business as a calligrapher and ketubah artist. It was cool to be able to call myself a professional artist, but the problem was, although I made my living from my art, […]
How to Teach Storytelling to a Business
The other day a friend came over to hang out and he pointed at a painting on my wall, asking me, “What is that painting?” It was my dream portrait by Eleatta Diver I told him. I went on to explain to him that Eleatta had interviewed me about my dreams and what I wanted […]