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My Big Audacious Goal

My Big Audacious Goal

Help 100 artists build businesses that support the lifestyle they want. That's my Big Audacious Goal. Everybody needs one. How did this come to be my B.A.G.? A month ago I was sitting with some friends on a beautiful Portland roof top. These friends are the people that I meet with every two ...

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Selling Art Online: Facebook

Selling Art Online: Facebook

With Facebook set to hit 500 million members this July, you can't afford to not be on Facebook at this point. I've written about Facebook a lot over the past few months, but I can't keep away from writing about it more. Picture this little scenario: Johnny is a 35 year ...

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How Do I Find the Right Place to Sell My Art Online?

How Do I Find the Right Place to Sell My Art Online?

image by Wonderlane Tami Espe, a Mandala artist asked: "I am a Mandala artist. The hardest thing for me is finding the right places/connections to show my artwork. So my question is How do I find the right venues/sites/contacts with such a specific topic?" Well, Tami, luckily for you, finding ...

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How to Merge Your Art Blog and Your Website (and why you should)

How to Merge Your Art Blog and Your Website (and why you should)

image by cambodia4kids If you have a website and a blog as two separate places online, you may be wasting a lot of valuable opportunities. Easy blogging services like Blogger have done a great job of encouraging thousands of people to start their own blogs. Artists who don't know better ...

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More Community, Please?

When I started The Abundant Artist, it was an exploration of the idea that the starving artist is nothing more than a myth that artists self-perpetuate. It's easier to believe that being an artist inherently means being poor, or bad at business. Since then, however, I've met a lot of artists ...

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The Community is Live!

by theabundantartist

It’s ready! It’s ready!

If you’re ready to join an online community of artist entrepreneurs, then please visit the Abundant Artist Community and sign up. I can’t wait to see you on the inside!

The link to sign up is here: http://theabundantartist.com/community

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then take a moment and read More Community, Please and My Big Audacious Goal. You’ll get the idea.

UPDATE: Just so that you know, when you sign up, there are TWO confirmation emails – one after you pay, and one after you register your username. You’ll need to click on the link in the second email to access the rest of the site. It mentions it during the registration process, but a few people have missed it.

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Sneak Peek into the New Community Site

July 26, 2010
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Lots of questions, and the easiest way to answer them is to show you this video.

The Abundant Artist Community combines the following elements to help you turn your art into a business:
Recorded audio lessons focusing on building your art business. These lessons will cover the following topics:

Identifying your ideal collector and where they hang [...]

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Make Someone Famous: The Power of Online Communities

July 23, 2010
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Serenity by Lesley Atlansky
Yesterday I posted that my Big Audacious Goal was to have 100 Artists Build Business That Support the Lifestyle They Want. Some of you shared some of your awesome B.A.G.’s.
So, here’s the power of sharing your goals, and here’s the power of communities. Lesley Atlansky (her website is here) shared that [...]

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My Big Audacious Goal

July 22, 2010
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Help 100 artists build businesses that support the lifestyle they want.
That’s my Big Audacious Goal. Everybody needs one.
How did this come to be my B.A.G.?
A month ago I was sitting with some friends on a beautiful Portland roof top. These friends are the people that I meet with every two weeks to discuss business. [...]

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More Community, Please?

July 20, 2010

When I started The Abundant Artist, it was an exploration of the idea that the starving artist is nothing more than a myth that artists self-perpetuate. It’s easier to believe that being an artist inherently means being poor, or bad at business.
Since then, however, I’ve met a lot of artists who are pretty good [...]

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