January 30, 2012 by Lisa Call
Can’t Do It All As an artist, there are simply too many options available for you to pursue them all: festivals, traditional galleries, non-profit galleries, selling from your website, etsy, coop galleries, juried shows, etc. The list goes on and on. Trying to do everything dilutes your focus and scatters your attention. Feeling frazzled and [...]
January 9, 2012 by Lisa Call
Planning for 2012 In January of 2011 I spent a couple of weeks planning for the upcoming year. I had very detailed goals and shared them with my blog readers. I did have a very successful year, but I feel I over planned. Something simpler would have served my purposes and gotten me back to [...]
November 30, 2011 by Lisa Call
An Excellent Interview with Will Smith Some Quotes from the Video Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god like feature that is only in the special among us. It is something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts [...]
November 4, 2011 by Lisa Call
Writing -> Best Use of Art Biz Time This week I shared the evolution of my artist statement on my artist blog. One of my observations on this process: I am a better writer today than I was 10 years ago. I attribute this 100% to my blogging. I believe that writing about my art [...]
August 1, 2011 by Lisa Call
Lectures and Workshops and More Recently I started teaching online art workshops and wanted to include the information on my website without detraction from my artwork. I decided to create a new tab at the top of my page and label it Learn From Me. Under this heading I am listing my in-person and online [...]
July 21, 2011 by Lisa Call
Take Control of Your Career Today’s post is a guest post by Kesha Bruce. I asked her to write about her thoughts on artists thinking big about their careers and this is her thoughtful response: For the past 6 months my blog writing has focused on why and how artists can take control of [...]
March 3, 2011 by Lisa Call
Email Newsletter Articles Part I – Permission Based Marketing Part II – Selecting Automated Mailing List Software Part III – Frequency of Newsletters – this article Upcoming topics: formatting and templates, testing, content (what should you say), receiving newsletters (take control of your inbox), and more Frequency How often should you write and send an [...]
February 20, 2011 by Lisa Call
Email Newsletter Articles Part I – Permission Based Marketing Part II – Selecting Automated Mailing List Software – this article Upcoming topics: frequency and schedules, formatting and templates, testing, content (what should you say), receiving newsletters (take control of your inbox), and more Software Once you decide you want to send out an email newsletter [...]
February 16, 2011 by Lisa Call
Big Plans Seth Godin has an excellent post on his blog today that I want to quickly share. It is so simple and yet so true. Make Big Plans …that’s the best way to make big things happen. … Is there any doubt that making big plans increases the chances that something great will happen? [...]
February 4, 2011 by Lisa Call
Newsletters I have decided to devote the month of February (and maybe into March if I have enough to say) to email newsletters. Artists are often told they need to have one and I agree they can be very valuable tools to get your artwork and big ideas out into the world so I’m going [...]
