How to Sell Art: The Abundant Artist Podcast
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWe interview successful professional artists including painters, sculptors, photographers and other fine artists. We talk about the business of art and what it takes to succeed.
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Title: Promoting Your Art through Flyers and Handmade Notes with Kelly Neidig
August 25, 2015 03:30 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode, we cover: 3:00 Cory & Kelly talk about the difference between talking about technique and talking about the emotional quality of art. 7:19 How Kelly came up with the flyer idea and executed on it. 12:30 How Kelly found interior designers. Check out Houzz.com and the website for the Association of Interior Designers 19:45 Kelly talks about her time as President of Portland Open Studios tour. She details what she did as well as how other artists can benefit...
Are Women Worse at Self-Promotion Than Men?
July 22, 2015 02:46 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBIn this episode, we cover: 2:00 - how Tara started a BIG discussion on Facebook by making this simple observation: of the top 50 business podcasts on iTunes, only 3 were hosted by women. 7:00 - we’re less likely to do effective self-promotion if we aren’t setting clear, big goals. Just going along and letting things happen only gets you so far. 13:00 - Tara talks about partnering with friends and other companies to form strategic alliances for promotion. 19:30 - how Tara ...
How Multipassionate Multipontialites, Scanners, or Renaissance Souls Create Their Dream Careers | TAA #12
May 06, 2015 21:02 - 31 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this episode with Emilie Wapnick and Michelle Ward, we talk about: - what it means to be a Multipassionate Multipontialites, Scanners, or Renaissance Souls - the up (and down) sides of being someone with vastly diverse interests - how a multipotentialite builds a career and/or a business around their diverse interests
A FullTime Art Income at Just 21 Years Old
April 21, 2015 06:20 - 48 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this episode, we cover: 5:00 how Andrew looks at making connections with other people, and why he enjoys it. How he thinks about reaching out. Most of Andrew’s sales come from his art tours when he teaches advanced painting techniques. He makes money from teaching, but the courses also generate sales from collectors and other artists. He’s also selling prints. 13:00 Andrew talks about his first art show at 19 years old. His father is a sculptor, and Andrew worked at a ga...
How Artists Can Write Books with Jeffrey Davis
March 30, 2015 23:04 - 29 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode, we cover: 4:30 - why now is an excellent time to publish a book and how Jeffrey recommends authors engage with their potential audiences. 11:00 - why “start with your marketing plan” is incomplete advice. Jeffrey explains his framework of the Problem, Premise and Promise. 27:00 - Jeffrey explains his program for helping authors complete their books Jeffrey Davis runs Tracking Wonder, a consultancy for people who want to make and sell books. His program Your C...
A Year of Daily Habits with Crystal Moody | TAA #9
March 03, 2015 11:03 - 28 minutes - 16.3 MBCrystal Moody posted a new drawing every day for a year in 2014, and is doing a new painting each day in 2015. She has some incredible insights into the challenges around forming new habits, including: - her top habit-forming resources - the relationship between quality and quantity - some of the best habit forming challenges she's seen from other artists Go to TheAbundantArtist.com/podcast9 for links to the resources & habit forming challenges mentioned in this episode.
How to Talk About Your Art Even if You’re A Hopeless Introvert
January 02, 2015 07:24 - 27 minutes - 15.8 MB1:15 - Vanessa’s introduction. She’s an expert in body language and sales. 3:00 - people decide VERY early in their first impression of you whether or not they’re going to buy from you. You can learn the skills that will make a great first impression. 7:30 - how we talk about our talents. The 5 aspects of who we are and how we express ourselves. Vanessa talks about how to learn these things and recognize them in others. We do some really fun playing with body language. 17:00 -...
How to Start Your Art Career Big with Ann Rea | TAA Podcast #7
December 24, 2014 07:19 - 22 minutes - 13 MBAnn Rea made a six-figure income in her first year in business. She talks about how she did it. 4:00 - what a Unique Selling Proposition is (from Cory: we have a ton more info about this under our Uniquity course) 9:00 - what Ann’s initial challenges were when she started her business. She needed better contracts, and she revisited her business plan. 12:30 - there’s a huge disconnect between how many people want to get into a gallery and how many galleries there are. Ann talks ...
Getting Pro Golf Shops to Carry Your Art with Cassy Tully | Episode 6
December 16, 2014 13:44 - 32 minutes - 18.8 MBWe interview Cassy Tully, a young artist who has achieved remarkable success, winning sponsorships with Kohlers, the PGA, and making a full time living for the last 5 years. Cassy talks about how she got started, learning to paint faster & better, and creating strong connections with collectors.
Brave, Intuitive Painting Careers with Flora Bowley
November 26, 2014 10:31 - 33 minutes - 19.1 MB:54 - Flora introduces herself and her book. She sells original art, prints, licenses her images, and is one of the most in-demand art teachers in the world. 2:30 - how Flora ended up taking up teaching after she already had a full-time painting career. Many painters are very lonely after spending hours and hours alone in the studio. 4:40 - what Flora’s art business looked like before she started teaching. She was making a good living selling through galleries. Now her business is ...
$500 Photography Portraits to $8,000 Portraits with Pye Jirsa from SLRLounge.com
November 17, 2014 14:54 - 34 minutes - 19.8 MBPye Jirsa and his 2 partners run a photography studio in Los Angeles, California. LinandJirsaPhotography.com and SLRLounge.com. 1:00 - how Pye & his partners started their photography studio. They weren’t originally photographers, but fell into it accidentally when a client needed some photos. 5:00 - Pye talks about how he built up his photography skills, the shoots he does just to build skills, and how many photographers don’t do this. 8:30 - the team booked gigs off of Craig...
10+ Tools and Tips for Online Market Research | Ep 3
November 12, 2014 11:26 - 15 minutes - 8.64 MBGo to TheAbundantArtist.com, where you can sign up for our free email course on how to sell art online. Today’s episode is sponsored by ArtStoreFronts.com. Maximize your Art Sales, By Having a Website that is Built to Do So. Build a website today, and you'll compete on a new level tomorrow. Main Segment If you’re going to sell your art online, you need to be at least passing familiar with how things work online, both technically and culturally. Doing research is important ...
Goal Setting & Lifestyle Design for Artists | Ep 2
November 12, 2014 11:23 - 13 minutes - 7.73 MBHi there! I’m Cory Huff, and this is The Abundant Artist Podcast, where we teach you how to sell your art. Go to TheAbundantArtist.com, where you can sign up for our free email course on how to sell art online. Today’s episode is sponsored by ArtStoreFronts.com. Maximize your Art Sales, By Having a Website that is Built to Do So. Build a website today, and you'll compete on a new level tomorrow. There's Dreams, which are ethereal qualities – I'd like to have more money, more f...
How to Start a Joint Venture and When to End | Ep 1
November 12, 2014 11:08 - 25 minutes - 14.8 MB:22 - Cory & Melissa talk about why they ended the Creative Insurgents podcast, and what’s happening next Go to TheAbundantArtist.com/podcast to see the new podcast 1:30 - we talk about why we are ending the podcast and what you can learn from it, and how we decided to partner together 4:00 - how we created a shared document that covered our partnership details 6:45 - our guests (you) expressed specific interests that they wanted something out of the podcast that Melissa wasn...