Hi Reader! Dropping you a line to let you know about a few cool things going on right now with The Abundant Artist and the online art business world. Coaching Sessions with ArtPlacer We've been collaborating on articles with ArtPlacer for years. In August we started holding live coaching sessions for their users. They recently published a guide to Lead Generation for Artists on their platform. Check out the guide and if you want to join us for a live coaching session, you can do that by...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader Last week I wrote a new blog post on the effect of AI on fine art businesses. The post had some great and thoughtful responses via email (people don't really comment anymore). A lot of artists are understandably upset about the mere suggestion that AI might be used anywhere in the creative process. As one reader said, creativity should remain in the hands of humans. See a great video discussion about this on Steven Zapata's YouTube channel. My response to that reader was that I'm...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader Quick update since it’s been a few weeks and I wanted to let you know about a few things I’m excited about. Consider this a shoutout email where I share some cool stuff my friends and colleagues are working on you might be interested in. Some rad art I saw this week: @caseypaintings enamel shark reveal @artloversaustralia posted a new work by their artist @joshualaaampour Gallery owners Nancy & Jarrod had me down to Australia back in 2019 to speak at an event and I got to meet so...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Reader In his book Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains that some systems become more resilient and work better as they experience stress and chaos. Certain kinds of artmaking tends to behave in an antifragile manner. When randomness and chaos is introduced into the process, the art thrives and just works. NOTE: if you don’t want to read these emails related to How to Sell Your Art Online 101, click here and we’ll remove you from the series. We’ve been at this long enough to see how...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader If you caught yesterday's webinar with Artplacer on websites for artists, I hope you got a lot out of it. Our Instagram got blown up with a bunch of stories of people sharing stories about it, so that was fun. When people first subscribe to our email list, they get an auto-response email that asks them what their biggest challenge is when it comes to selling their art. I read them all, and reading those for years led me to creating our Start Here page which links to blog posts that...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello NAME UPDATE: the previous version of this email had the wrong link for Maria Brito's podcast episode. We're resending with the correct link here. Lots going on this week! We’re starting the next round of How to Sell Your Art 101 on June 26 (see below). Saw some awesome videos of artists showing off their successes this week, and Tasha Roth really nailed it when she pointed out that any time you put your prices online, someone gets upset, so why not go big and start at $5,000? What does...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hello NAME Lots going on this week! We’re starting the next round of How to Sell Your Art 101 on June 26 (see below). Saw some awesome videos of artists showing off their successes this week, and Tasha Roth really nailed it when she pointed out that any time you put your prices online, someone gets upset, so why not go big and start at $5,000? What does an Art Advisor do? I sat down and recorded a podcast with Maria Brito to answer that question and got this gem of a quote. “My mission was to...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Hi there Reader, What most artists do when they’re “doing social media” is try to grow their following one person at a time. Reciprocating comments and likes within their artist social circle. That doesn’t work too well - and it can be tedious. 🙄 In one of our discussion groups for TAA students, someone asked how a particular artist accumulated 75,000+ followers on Instagram. Big social media followings rarely happen organically any more. This has been true for years. The algorithms favor...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Hi there Reader, The last 10 days, we’ve been talking a lot about PR and media relations for artists. We’ve covered what a good media kit looks like, how other artists grow their audience without social media, and dug into Eric Jackson’s story about the 100 Shores art project. Check out our latest podcast episode where you can hear him telling his story in his own words here. (BTW - Don’t want to hear more about PR & Media outreach? Click here and we’ll remove you from this series.) The doors...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read