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3 fears around selling your art, craft, or handmade products to stores that are holding your business back.
Read more: 3 fears around selling your art, craft, or handmade products to stores that are holding your business back.As someone who’s spent well over a decade teaching and coaching artists and makers on every aspect of wholesale, I’ve heard all the fears, concerns, and “reasons” why people feel like they can’t sell their art or products to stores. It’s possible you’ve had a few of these thoughts yourself. So today, I want to…
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Everything isn’t an experiment forever.
Read more: Everything isn’t an experiment forever.One of the core ideas behind my book Try It & See is that everything is an experiment. Not only is that the title of the first chapter, but “try it & see” has become shorthand for taking something from just a thought (as in, “I wonder if this is worth my time?”) to real…
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How to hold yourself accountable as a creative business owner, or the importance of scheduling launches and releases
Read more: How to hold yourself accountable as a creative business owner, or the importance of scheduling launches and releasesThis week, I got a question from someone who had just read Try It & See, and it was so key I realized it warranted a blog post of its own. Here’s what she asked: “One thing I’d like to know more about is the ‘launches and releases’ being the most important things you could…
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How to safeguard your business from the collapse of social media
Read more: How to safeguard your business from the collapse of social mediaOn Friday night, Tyler Thrasher, an artist I follow on Instagram, posted some interesting thoughts in his Stories. Basically, he shared that he thought we weren’t far from a pretty significant collapse of social media. His reason is that now that Elon Musk has purchased Twitter and will begin implementing a monthly fee for blue…
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Making product photography part of your creative process.
Read more: Making product photography part of your creative process.Over the past few years, I’ve gotten back to my design roots. And my design roots are decidedly maximalist. (Don’t believe me? Check out my MFA thesis or scroll down on this post to see some of the “jewelry” I made in my first year of grad school.) The reason I say “gotten back” is…