Hot Tip for Artists

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We have over 200 Hot Tips for artists that you can scroll through, OR click on a catagory and just have a look at the videos specific to that area.

Fine arts grants: Do it differently

by John Paul Fischbach | Feb 3, 2015 | Branding & Values, Hot Tip for Artists

Three steps to improving results are
1. start doing it differently (change the pattern)
2. be smarter (go learn something, improve your skills)
3. mindset is critical (If you believe you can, or if you believe you can’t . . . You are right.)

Invest in your Art Business

by John Paul Fischbach | Jan 27, 2015 | Hot Tip for Artists, Vision & Mindset

This weeks hot tip Tuesday John Paul Fischbach gives some much needed advice on investing in yourself, your arts business. Look out for the tip “invest in your business too”

Open calls artists: 5 ‘must have’ marketing tools

by John Paul Fischbach | Jan 27, 2015 | Hot Tip for Artists, Marketing & Message

Use the tools that make your marketing better and easier. Are you using the top 5 on-line tools that are helping people market the arts more effectively? Do you have a Website? Are you using an Email Service Provider? To you have a Sales Funnel to help create life long customers? Are you using Social Media Analytics Tools so you can measure your engagement on Social Media?

Networking

by John Paul Fischbach | Jan 20, 2015 | Hot Tip for Artists, Marketing & Message

Networking is difficult for artists because some of us are a little bit introverted and we don’t really like that moving around and talking. We don’t even know what to say, so here’s a little tip. When someone comes up to you and says “What do you do?” The first thing that happens is this paralysis because we do too many things. As artists we’ve got a bunch of different things on the go so it’s difficult for us to pick one but that’s what you want to do. Pick only one thing.

Guarantee completion, get an accountability coach

by John Paul Fischbach | Jan 20, 2015 | Hot Tip for Artists, Planning & Productivity

You will do some things for you
You will do more for someone else
You will do it all if someone is holding you accountable
Get someone who believes in you and has your best interest at heart and ask them to be your accountability coach.

Building a website is hard, how to make it easy

by John Paul Fischbach | Jan 16, 2015 | Hot Tip for Artists, Marketing & Message

Craig Lambie from the Auspicious Arts Incubator talks about Wordpress, and how handy Wix and other drag and drop tools are for building a website. Video: [embedyt]http://youtu.be/XcDev0vTEdk[/embedyt] Podcast: [powerpress] Transcript: Hi, Craig Lambie here; the...