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A View From My Studio: Paint, Pretty Paper…and Strategic Plans
Hello Gorgeous Genius! This sunny and crisp Sunday morning I’m back at my work/live warehouse near San Francisco. After a hike on Mt. Tam, I’m immersing myself in paint, pretty paper, and plans — the photo, above, is what’s on my work table. This is how I craft the map for where I’ll be taking [...]
Personal Branding | Why You Should Care About It | Free Podcast
Why Personal Branding is Important for Artists The reason why personal branding is important is easy. If you fail to brand yourself, someone else will do it for you, and most likely the results will not be to your satisfaction. Gary Vaynerchuk is a social media evangelist, and author of two New York Times bestselling [...]Show More Summary
Who painted this? #23
It's another lamb! OK - so sometimes I lack imagination! This time instead of being a tiny part of a huge painting, this is a study - a drawing for a painting - but by who - and when? Who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How To Plan Your Blog Posts
Artist Ruth de Vos gave me permission to share this with you to help you plan your blog posts: I made up a little form for my blog post planning. It includes the post title, notes for the post content, a list of my categories, a list of link ups I try to participate in, space for jotting down external and internal links that relate to the post, as well as a call to action. [...]Show More Summary
10 Finalists for £100k Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013
Continuing the theme of museums - we now have the names of the ten museums and art galleries selected as finalists in the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2013 plus an invite to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Finally! Personal Finance for Creatives: A Conversation with Luna Jaffe, Author of Wild Money
Money! The very word evokes so much emotion…stories, memories, longings, frustrations, hopes and dreams… You’re a smart cookie. If you’re here, reading this, I’m certain that you’re a Gorgeous Genius. You’re successful at many things. You make the impossible happen for your clients. You juggle multiple roles and wear many hats (while running in [...]
The Best Cities for Top Art Galleries and Museums (2012)
Which are the best cities to go to if you want to indulge in a spot of art gallery and museum visiting? I've reviewed the top 100 art galleries and museums - judged by the number of visitors - in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Is Your Customer Relations Department?
Critical to all of your marketing is how you treat people. How do you stay in touch with them? How do you show people you care? Let’s look at three aspects of maintaining good customer relationships: recency, frequency, and attentiveness. How do you make people feel special? How do you stay in touch with them? How do you show people you care? [...]Show More Summary
Top 30 Art Galleries and Museums in the World in 2012
The Visitor Figures Survey (2012) - Exhibition & museum attendance conducted by The Art Newspaper provides a guide to which museums are doing well and which are experiencing a change in their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Review: George Catlin: American Indian Portraits
The exhibition continues until 23 June 2013 The National Portrait Gallery is currently exhibiting a large number of portraits of native American Indians - on loan from the Smithsonian American Art... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valuable Business Lessons From Infusioncon
I spent last week with 2100 other Infusionsoft software enthusiasts in Scottsdale, Arizona at Infusioncon 2013. In no particular order, here are some things I learned that I thought might be useful to you. From Jay Baer, author of The Now Revolution and the forthcoming Youtility... When marketing onine, we're no longer competing against just others in our same market. [...]Show More Summary
31st March 2013 - Who's made a mark this week?
Meet MakingAMark! She's an Easter lamb (literally) being born at 21.20 on Easter Sunday in the Netherlands. Her breed is a very old and rare Dutch Native Sheep Breed called 'Drenthen Moor Sheep'... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Review: RWS Spring Exhibition 2013
I enjoyed my visit to the Spring Exhibition of the Royal Watercolour Society this week. The RWS Spring Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery - with a Tribute Wall to Leslie Worth PPRWS... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Art Career Success Requires Making Goals
Your Art Career Success Requires Goal Planning and Strategy Setting goals is essential the success of your art career, just as it is with any business, large or small. The adage, “Failing to plan is planning to fail” is a truism that holds up well because it offers inescapable common sense. Strategic planning makes for [...]Show More Summary
Who painted this? #22
On an Easter theme, I had a choice of possible paintings - but surprisingly rather fewer than I expected. In the end I decided to vary the format slightly and to ask you..... ....In which painting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Inside Frida Kahlo’s Studio
Frida Kahlo’s Studio is upstairs from the main living quarters of her family home, affectionately known as “Casa Azul”, the blue house. Now the Frida Kahlo Museum, her home, studio and and grounds are open to visitors. It’s located in the Coyacan neighborhood in Mexico City. At first I declined to pay extra for the [...]
The crazy thing I’m doing that I’ve been too shy to talk about (and a new creative frontier for you)
There is a new frontier opening up in the world of books and writing and publishing. It’s the opportunity for us artists and teachers and coaches to be publishers and entrepreneurs… It’s huge…nothing less than revolutionary. That’s why I created A Writer’s Journey – to show you how I’m pursuing this new frontier, and how [...]
The Big Fat Artist Video Challenge
In Promote Your Art Through Video, R. Daniel Foster left us with a challenge. If you participated in this teleseminar (and you can still sign up here) and created a video as part of the challenge, we want to hear from you. Please leave your video link in a comment on this post and tell us what you most enjoyed about the seminar. We'll give you free feedback. [...]Show More Summary
Lichenstein at Tate Modern
Tate Modern Shop - and the Lichenstein Retrospective Memorabilia I had a quick canter around Lichenstein: A Retrospective at Tate Modern yesterday before going to see the Spring Exhibition of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Save The Apologies For When You Really Need Them
There are real things in your art business and marketing you should apologize for. Apologize when you miss a deadline, are late to an appointment, or (oops!) accidentally use the Cc instead of the Bcc line for your email blast. Of course...Show More Summary
