Learn business, marketing, and promotion of your art with free artist webinars…
Promoting, marketing, and selling art is always a challenge and for many artists selling art online is an even greater challenge. I believe a big part of the challenge comes from an artist having to go at it alone most of the time when it comes to art marketing. Most artists do not have the benefit of a representative or a manager. Even those that have gallery representation must do some self promotion to maximize the opportunity of being in a gallery.
Of course money is an issue as well. A lot of artists must “boot strap” their art career by scratching together funds to help market their work from wherever they can. Few have the benefit of a big bank account, an angel investor, or a wealthy supporter.
Always keep in mind that these are just challenges, not reasons to stop pursuing your life as a working artist.
My mission with Art Palaver is to help artists with those challenges. I try to offer information and support in anyway I can. Recently I’ve stepped back a bit and spent a lot of time doing some Art Palaver soul searching on how I can advance it to the next level and offer better help and support in new ways. From that came one of the new tools I am offering which is free webinars on a regular basis.
Each webinar will be about an hour long and will focus on different topics that relate to promotion and marketing for the modern independent artist. I also hope to bring in guest panelists who are knowledgeable in areas that would be helpful.
The first art marketing webinar will be next week on March 17th at 2PM Mountain Time, the topic will be Facebook. (Look for a follow up post with more details. But you can register here now.) I also plan on scheduling evening webinars as well. Time will tell what days and times work the best for most people. But even if you can not make the live webinar event you will be able to download the audio a day or so after the webinar.
I did a series of webinars in December of 2009 and I really liked the webinar platform for many reason. It allows the audience access in a couple of ways so more people can be included. Either join on your computer via the internet or call in on your phone if you can not be on a computer at the time of the live event. Webinars also allow audience members to participate in the discussion through text chat and voice chat. This interaction is probably what excites me the most. Writing blog posts is great but I never know if I am delivering the exact information you are looking for. When we can have a discussion we can get specific questions answered as well as learn from each other experiences. I’ll be looking for artists to be on the panel as well, to share what has worked and what has not worked.
Let me stress that these webinars are 100% free.
I look forward to having you join me on this new adventure.
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