In this episode we cover:
1:25- How Patricia began selling prints on Etsy
5:15- Selling digital prints comes with its own unique challenges
9:00- How Patricia came to realize that she could make a living from her art
13:20- The advantages and disadvantages of selling on Etsy
20:50- How to get website traffic from Pinterest
24:40- Finding success selling prints on Society6
29:30- How Patricia’s licensing deal with Anthropologie came about
31:05- Finding the balance between living life and 24/7 hustle to build your business
36:05- Helpful productivity and time-management tools that Patricia recommends
Download the transcript here:
Running a Successful Print Studio with Patricia Vargas
Resources:
The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
Wonderful interview, Cory! Thank you, Patricia, for sharing your story, it’s an inspiration and validation that I can achieve some of the goals I’ve set in 2018. I’m one of those artists who’s now almost exclusively creating work digitally and suffered from imposter syndrome during that transition. Thankfully my interactions with people are markets and festivals where I primarily sell face-to-face (only after overcoming some of the introversion) have reaffirmed that more people see that set of skills as valid, and the work produced digitally as actual artwork.
Similar to the Self Control app, I use StayFocused for Chrome and it has been a life-saver when my willpower just isn’t doing it. I don’t use it all the time, just when I find that my own focus won’t keep me from the time-wasting sites. It’s also clever enough to let me into my business pages on FB, but not my personal profile so that I can still do business/marketing stuff without getting sucked into pics of my friends new puppy.