This week I would like to share a friendly reminder regarding keeping on top of your publicity and mentions on the web. It’s my marketing take action task for this week, inspired by Leslie Saeta’s 30 day marketing challenge post here. Google alerts sends you updates based on a search term, so you can keep [...]
This week I’m concentrating on a particular type of take action tasks – submitting work! Although we would love for people to simply notice our artwork and present us with a fabulous deal, it’s much more realistic to take the route of presenting yourself professionally. If you don’t actively seek out opportunities, you might never accomplish anything, [...]
I learned about the concept of a “backlist” from Seth Godin – it’s what publishers call the work from a while ago that is still out there selling. Well, I wanted to apply the idea for my personal situation. I often forget about all that I’ve done, constantly searching for something new. It’s certainly wonderful [...]
Last week there was a national holiday here in Italy. We took advantage and made it an extra long weekend since we actually had to take the little one into town for paperwork at the American consulate – first train trip with the baby! Despite a few sessions of fussiness throughout the day, it all [...]
Being a tech nerd of this generation, I find myself plugged in and online seemingly 24/7. From computers to smart phones to tablets, we can be connected whenever wherever I think it’s totally cool and amazing, but sometimes even I feel the overwhelm and glossy eyed effect of it all. Why not take a digital break and go offline [...]
This week my take action task is to focus on a single little task. We all know the pitfalls of trying to multitask. It usually results in a lot of things started, but none completed fully. There’s a lot of wasted time switching from one thing to another. It makes my mind feel cluttered just thinking [...]
This week I’m concentrating on digital disaster – that is, preventing a real disaster to my business and work. It’s actually a pretty simple action task – backup! Do you have a backup routine or system already setup? Onsite and offsite? If your hard drives blew up or some kind of digital monster wipes out [...]
Even with so much going on in my life now, I previously blogged about enrolling in Lilla Rogers Studio School – a course called Make Art That Sells - as an investment in my own dreams and ambitions. I had been anxiously waiting for the registration to open and can’t be more excited for it to start [...]
This week I decided to brush up my website mailing list. This is all in my effort to take action in my creative business and lifestyle. It can be a small task, but it’s something concrete. First of all, I hope you have a mailing list set up for your creative business. There’s no doubt [...]
Today we have access to all kinds of information with just a click of the mouse. I often think that the Internet has become the new TV for many of us… because it’s easy to tune out and keep surfing mindlessly. Somehow, we think the research and intake of information is doing us good, but [...]
