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Artist Guide: Learning To Fail
by Natasha Wescoat
It’s a given that anyone in business will have their ups and downs. One of the most difficult parts of the business that we must embrace with grace, is things WILL go wrong.
It’s a given that anyone in business will have their ups and downs. One of the most difficult parts of the [...]
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“All lasting business is built on friendship.” – Alfred A. Montapert
- by Natasha Wescoat
What is great about Art and Social media is that they are complentary and beneficial to one another. It’s a symbiotic relationship. But there is much to understand about social media that we may fail to see. One of the things we [...]
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by Natasha Wescoat
One of the best inventions of the internet being used today is live streaming video. The viewer can watch as the broadcaster does things live over the net, and chat with them via the chat interface offered on the particular channel.
Sites like Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Mogulus offer free streaming video channels to people [...]
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5 How-tos for Artists
If you take a gander at the Learn section of EBSQ, you’ll find several years worth of how-to articles on specific art-related projects like Cigar Box Purses and Felt Making. But did you know we also have how-to articles that address the business of art as well? Here are five of our most popular how-to articles:
How to [...]
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I think it’s rarely spoken just how intense work can be for an artist in business..or a person in art business. Artists have to juggle technically three different careers. You have:
- CREATOR/ARTIST
- SALESMEN/MARKETER
- CUSTOMER SERVICE/MANAGEMENT
CREATING WITHIN LIMITATIONS
I put them in order of intensity, at least from my personal experience. Creating is one of the [...]
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by Natasha Wescoat
Tweetable Art: 10 Twitter Tips for Artists
The Artist’s Guide To Flickr
The Artist’s Guide To Youtube
Be sure to share your input, ideas, comments, or share with us your experiences using these social media tools to promote and expose your work. Alot of artists out there don’t realize the awesome potential of the net to [...]
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by Natasha Wescoat
Twitter is one of the most influencial social media tools available to everyone, including artists as a way to connect with friends, fans, collectors, and business colleagues. If you don’t already know, it’s a microblogging tool where you can type what you are doing, reply to other Twitterers and send direct messages to [...]
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by Natasha Wescoat
Alot of the time, we talk about finding our target audience, about finding the perfect agent/business manager, or maybe getting those galleries/shops to hold our art. So when we do in fact get a nibble on that line – we’re all going bananas. You start to think everything is going to turn around [...]
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As social media evolves, and our use of it changes or improves, we find places like Myspace seemingly growing old and useless. What used to be hip and swarming with possibilities, is just another space for emo pops and tech-defunct masses, and perverts to splatter the interweb with their rediculous junk food content and whiny [...]
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The following is a guest post from EBSQ Artist Shannon Fogl:
Tax time is upon us again. Time to get all your sales records together, collect invoices and calculate fees! However, if you’ve been using eBay this just got a lot easier.
EBay offers a free application you can add to your MyEbay section. Simply go to: http://pages.ebay.com/salesreports/welcome.htmland [...]
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