Form a Personal Patron Connection

January 10, 2012

In this week’s video, we talk about: Selling to Your Target Audience The Fight the Monsters contest What I’ve learned from setting up other artists’ websites The Personal Patron Connection Selling to your target audience is one of those phrases that makes many artists cringe. So let’s think about it another way. All you’re doing [...]

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How to Research Your Online Art Market

January 3, 2012

Successful artpreneurs do a lot of research to find out where they can best position themselves in a market. In a recent interview with superstar artist Matt Leblanc, he talks about how he spent a fair amount of time researching his market to find out what kind of art was out there, who was doing [...]

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Fight the Monsters!

December 29, 2011

In this week’s video post, I mentioned that I wanted to change the way that we use words here at The Abundant Artist. If the words that we used were monsters, what would they look like? Starving Artist The world at large continues to talk about Starving Artists. Even close family members of mine ask [...]

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Video Update – 2011 Successes. New Words. Your Input Wanted.

December 27, 2011

New thing on The Abundant Artist! One of the surprising pieces of information from doing a yearly review is that video content is REALLY POPULAR. The few videos that I’ve done on TAA have been found super-helpful. It’s pretty easy to say yes when so many people like the videos so much. For at least [...]

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How Do You Know When It’s Time To Become An Artist?

December 20, 2011
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[Note from Cory] Today is a guest post from Dan Johnson. I talk to a LOT of artists who are over 40, 50, or even 60 years old who are just beginning the transition to making a full-time living as an artist. Some of them came to art late in life. Most of them, however, [...]

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