You already know more about your collectors than you think. The question is - are you using it?
Every DM, every comment at a show, every offhand thing a buyer said when they walked out with your work - that's all data. And it can do a lot more for you than you realize.
In this post, I'm sharing three specific ways to put what you already know to work: how to speak your collectors' language, where to show up so selling feels natural, and the one thing that turns a first-time buyer into someone who comes back again and again.
If you've ever felt like you kind of know your buyers but aren't sure how to turn that into something real and consistent, this one's for you.
You’re doing the work.
You’re applying for grants, showing up for opportunities, making strong art — and still somehow feeling like you don’t have enough time… or enough income.
That disconnect? It’s not random.
Most artists are pouring hundreds of hours into things that were never designed to create consistency — even when they “work.”
I broke this down (with real numbers) in a new post, along with the simple shift that changes how your time actually supports your income.
If you’ve ever thought, “I’m doing everything right… so why am I still stuck?” — this will hit.
Selling your art shouldn’t feel this hard. If it does, you’re not broken—you may just be doing things out of order. Read the post for the mindset shift that helps artists create real momentum and income.
I thought I’d have a slow morning to finish my price tags after Open Studios started at 10 a.m. The first person through the door? The founder of the event… and an art collector. I was caught scrambling — and not in a good way.😯
Here’s why this happens (and how to fix it before your next show) 👉Click through to read the full story.
Wondering if you have enough work for your next show? You're not alone—and you don’t need to spend hours scaling your art on graph paper to figure it out. In this post, I share a quick, visual method that takes 15 minutes (or less) and gives you real clarity. Trust your gut, skip the guesswork, and get back to creating.
Want to feel a little safer and have more privacy while experimenting with ChatGPT? Here are the steps to disable your chats from being used in their learning model.
One of the best ways for you to get to know the people who are most likely to buy from you is to create a newsletter. Once you get it up and running, you may run into this question…What’s the Best Day of the Week to Send a Newsletter? Keep reading to find out how to figure this out for your email subscribers.
This is the permission slip you’ve been waiting for to bring the prices on what you create up to fair market value.
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As a creative entrepreneur it can feel so helpful to use AI to generate the words for all of your social media posts, blog and newsletters, press releases, website, and more. But there’s one big pitfall that you’ll want to keep in mind when you use this super helpful tool. Keep reading to learn more and see how you can leverage this tool to your advantage.
Are you tired of the overwhelming chaos that comes with juggling a never-ending to-do list as an artist? Trust me, you're not alone. We've all been there—believing we can conquer mountains of tasks in a single day, only to find ourselves drowning in uncompleted plans and deliverables. But what if there's a way to break free from this cycle of stress and actually enjoy your creative business more? Imagine knowing a way to transform how you tackle your to-dos.
When you learn to ride the waves that your creative life sends you, a full time income can happen. Keep reading to learn how one creative is seeing the results of taking things in stride. And, how you can look at the ups and downs of your own practice.
How can having a mindset of valuing making progress over perfection help you? If you’ve ever felt a teeny bit perfectionistic, this is your reminder that you can make life a little easier with this thought.
Feel like you’re charging too little for your art? And, even though you know you’d like to raise your prices, it makes you feel scared to think you’ll lose sales? Keep reading to learn how to charge more for your art and build your selling confidence at the same time.
If you’ve been avoiding doing a task for a while, or know you have a lot of resistance around it, you need to do something that can really break you free from the things that are holding you back from getting it done.
There are 6 ways that have worked for me to overcome resistance in my art practice. If you’ve ever felt like you’ve been in the resistance roundabout and that it’s stopped you from building the sustainable art practice you’d like, this is for you.
When it comes to selling your art at a discount, there are a few helpful things to think about to make it a successful sale. And so you don’t feel awful about underpricing your art.
When the artist you’re working with shares how they now get to show their art work in a new gallery, it’s exciting! And definitely a “heck yes!” kind of moment that gets both of us doing a happy dance. It’s even more fun when you learn that this is happening because they followed one key piece of advice that you gave them. Find out what that advice was here…