7 Ways to Have Fun Selling Your Art – For many artists selling is the hardest part.  Here are some ideas to help you see this less as a chore and more as something that’s fun and integral to your art.

Looking for outside money?  Here are a few tips for Writing Successful Funding Applications

Feel like your blog has become a waste of time? Here are Four Reasons Your Blog Is Dying

4 Tips To Get Your Business Ready For The Holidays – That’s right, it’s that time of year again.

This is an oldie but goodie to help you with both your business and personal finances – 10 financial homework assignments

17 Ways to Turn Your Blog Readers into Loyal Fans – It’s all about making them feel special

Feel like you don’t have enough time in the day to Tweet constructively?  Here are someways to  Find Killer Twitter Content To Tweet

39 blogging tips – If you’ve already got a blog, you can scroll down through the first 10 tips.  These are more technical tips rather than content tips.

Don’t Use Price as Marketing Strategy – Someone will ALWAYS be cheaper than you, so you have to market to you ideal customer.

There has been a lot of discussion about Facebook lately.  Here are 5 Ways to Control Your Facebook Privacy

7 Types of Creative Block (and What to Do About Them) – We’ve all been here, but we don’t have to stay here.

Some of My Best Blogging Advice – A compilation post of the best blogging advice Indie Business Blog has posted.

How to Build in a Base Income and Why You Should – Bring customers into your world and keep them around for longer-the return can do wonders for the longevity of your business.

How to Use Trends to Increase Your Art Sales – No, no, no, you don’t have to create your art around the trends, but being aware of what the trends are will help you market more effectively.

10 Tricks To Motivate Yourself To Write–Right NOW – Give yourself a kick in the butt in your day-to-day battle to get things done

Once you’ve sold something, what can you do to keep those clients coming back? Enhancing the Art Buying Experience

One way to improve your marketing message – Start with Why

Artist Websites: Appealing to the Slow Scavenger vs Fast Hunter Shoppers – People shop in different ways and your website has to reflect that. Here are some ways to appeal the the “Fast Hunters.”

It’s getting to be the busiest time of year and it’s hard to get attention in the crowded holiday marketplace – How to Generate Buzz for Your Next Studio Event

SEO – 20+ Quick Ways To Build Backlinks – It has been said that creating a lot of backlinks increases your traffic.  Here are some ways to increase your backlinks, and thus your traffic.

Think your business is all about your product? Think again.  Small Business Tip Tuesday: Do You Know Your REAL Business?

4 Simple Steps to Build Your Network – Some great ideas to help you build and strengthen your contacts.  There’s also a free template.

Speaking of building your list…7 More Ways to Build Your Email List on Social Media

2 Techniques the Pros Use to Craft Instantly Gratifying Posts – Using Seth Godin and Chris Brogan as examples of giving your readers instant gratification.

You and Your Customers: ‘Til Death Do Us Part? – Does the sale terminate your relationship with a client, or is it only the beginning?

Free eBook: Driving Profitability at Art & Craft Shows - Tips on marketing, eliminating theft, and maximizing your profits

Pass It On: 5 Ways To Create Compelling Content – Because we always need some more ideas for blogs & newsletters

To stay current with what’s going on in the art world -Where To Find The Best Arts News & Information

8 Things That Are Harming Your Creative Potential as a Professional – Feeling like something is holding you back creatively?  It might be you!

Top Things To Do If You Only Have 20 Minutes A Day For Twitter – You know that it’s easy to waste your time when you’re online.  Here are some tips to help you focus and set a time limit.

Five Tips for Running a Successful, Small Business Publicity Campaign – So you have a new line, new workshop, new book, etc.  Now you need to get people to buy it, come to it, spread the word.

Four Ways to Deal with Your Dangerously Educated Client – Your customers now know more than they ever did in the past thanks to the internet.  Here’s how to help them process that info.

13 press release topics when there’s nothing newsworthy – These ideas also work for content generation for your blog &/or newsletter

Why You Aren’t Writing to Your Audience – If you want to build an audience, you must make others your audience, not yourself.

How Social Curation Builds Your Following – We follow people like Mari Smith and Guy Kawasaki because they help us filter the news we’re interested in, but have no wish to research ourselves.

How to Use the Power of Silence to Boost Your Writing Career – Sometimes less is more…

How One Artist Reached her Market through Extreme Networking – A case study of how one artist markets her butt off to make great connections with her fans, collectors, and potential customers

The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Blog Conversion Rates – Here are 7 conversion site reviews that will show you how to increase blog conversion rates without messing around with any of that “tech” stuff.

Two thoughts on using social media for marketing – 5 Reasons (and 5 Tips) Businesses Need to Exercise Their Social Media Muscle and Clintavo’s Position on Marketing Art via Facebook and Twitter

I’ve heard countless jewelers and potters complain about how many of them there are at any particular show, so I give you – 5 Ways To Thrive In A Overcrowded Industry

10 Steps for a Successful Handmade Product Launch - One artist shows how she manages a product launch and how you can use the same model for yourself

Feeling disengaged or distracted from your art? Wishing you could get back into the flow? Be the river – Creative Insights: Lesley Riley

20 Twitter Tips: How To Easily Gain & Lose Followers – Still wondering what on earth to tweet about?  Here are some ideas about what to tweet and what not to tweet. And on a similar note: 7 Ways You Can Be Fricking Awesome on Twitter

10 Ways to Plan a Successful Trunk Show & Boost Your Sales – Trunk shows are a great way to try out a gallery or boutique for your work or to sell at a store that doesn’t usually carry your type of craft.

7 Steps to Setting Blogging Goals that Stick – Learn how to get your head in the right place and set realistic and attainable goals for your blog.

5 Big Reasons Your Ideal Customer Isn’t Choosing You – What’s holding your ideal customer back from buying your goods and what to do about it.

I Heart Art: Portland is like speed dating for artists – A great idea for speed networking between artists and galleries happening in Portland.

Overwhelmed by the daunting task of being on top of your financial situation?Here are some ideas to help you Build Financial Savvy in 5 Minutes a Day

On a similar note, is your To-Do list also overwhelming you?Here’s a way to work through the stragglers – loose ends & the peace of completion

And another post on how to improve your blogging -Blog Like A Pro With 100 Tips

30 Ways To Boost Sales Without Discounting – Discounts can bring some new customers in, but they can be expensive and actually make you customers wait to buy until you offer them.  Here are some alternatives.

Personal, Timely, and Relevant - If you just put your work out there in any old place at any old time, you’re wasting your time and making it harder on yourself.  You need to reach your customers in their time and space to be relevant to them.

How To Generate A Constant Stream Of Interesting Press Release Ideas – One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to tie in my news with news that’s relevant to a wider audience.  Here are some ideas to help you do better than me!

INFOGRAPHIC: 8 Ways To Conquer Facebook Statuses – A fun look at some ways to increase your fan interaction on FB (especially if you are an ancient conqueror hehe)

How Little Surprises Help You Blow Awayyy Your Audience and Clients – Great and simple things that will help make your clients’ day. (There is gratuitous use of the f word, just to warn you)

52 Types of Blog Posts that Are Proven to Work – I’ve listed so many posts like this one, but just in the first three, I found one idea I hadn’t heard before.  Plus it’s always good to have go to ideas for content.

A 7-Step Guide to Mind Control: How to Quit Begging and Make People Want to Help You – It’s true, you can magically make people say “yes” without begging. That is if you realize that good marketing is magical.

And an interesting look at the main ways artists have sold their work on Making a Mark: What’s the MAIN way you have sold art in the last 12 months? (Poll results) The results may surprise you…

A series of blog posts is a great way to talk deeper about a particular sunject and still draw in your readers. Here are Five Ways to Spot a Potential Blog Post Series

What’d You Say? How To Write Killer Quotes For Your Online Press Release – You probably spend the most time working out the headline for your PR, but quotes draw readers in almost as much.

Because we all need to make the most of our time: 5 Ways Social Media Can Save You an Hour a Day

So, You’ve Got Writer’s Block… – This happens to all of us.  Some of these ideas can be tweaked to help you out of any kind of creative block.

4 Creative Ways to Attract More Visitors to Your Website – And just any visitors, but the RIGHT kind of visitors, ones who are interested in you and your work.

finding the right venue for your art show – One of the hardest parts about selling your work is finding a venue that is the right fit.

6 Ways Your Artist Statement Can Work for You – Have you been putting off writing your statement, because you think it isn’t useful?  Here are some reasons why that is the wrong attitude to take.

Fear – Face it and Enjoy the Rewards – You should never let fear of action cause you to miss an opportunity.  Here are some ways to help seize the moment.

Another bonus: In Defense of The Pursuit of Mastery Are you using “but I have so many different interests, I can’t choose just one discipline” as an excuse NOT to do the work it takes to mastery one discipline?

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Art – Originally geared toward 2d artists, you could easily translate this into any creative endeavor.  Thoughts on composition, concept, and color.

I Am A Blog Reader. This Is A List Of My Demands: Ideas from someone who reads blogs about what draws readers to particular blogs.

Small Business Tip Tuesday: Are You Getting Found? It’s hard to cut through all the clutter out there. Ken talks about the way nurturing relationships helps you do this.