Comments on: How Self-Promotion Helps Artists Boost Business https://artmarketingnews.com/self-promotion/ Innovative art marketing advice for visual artists weekly since 2005 Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:51:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Barney Davey https://artmarketingnews.com/self-promotion/#comments/57698 http://artprintissues.com/the-art-of-self-promotion-for-visual-artists#comment-57698 In reply to Tyler Brown.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. No one has the time or resources to manage all those items. Start with the ones you can work on now. Avoid the areas where you have problems to save your energy for things in your control. And continue to work on believing in yourself daily. All my best wishes are with you for all you do.

]]> By: Tyler Brown https://artmarketingnews.com/self-promotion/#comments/57696 http://artprintissues.com/the-art-of-self-promotion-for-visual-artists#comment-57696 I suppose I’m introverted however, maybe a bit agoraphobic as well, I don’t like to be in the limelight, I don’t like to be seen, I would rather work on my projects and not be seen or heard, it would be preferred that all people hear and see is my artwork; I’d rather not think of money, thoughts about money kills creativity and drive me insane, it’s difficult not to think of it when I need it, I truly wish someone else could do the marketing and financing other than myself.
Here are some of my thoughts:
1.) “Post comments on the blogs of influential folks who can influence your career.”
They ignore me and I irritate them when I do this, I can’t seem to communicate very well, people don’t understand what I’m saying, perhaps it’s the way I write is messy or improper?
2.) “Make friends with a local media person covering culture, entertainment, or politics.”
I don’t even know how that’s possible.
3.) “Do something outrageous that you would never do.”
Okay, I like that, good idea.
4.) “Start an art event for charity.”
I don’t know if I have the means nor do I know how that’s done.
5.) “Seek help in high places.”
This is when I get shunned and pushed away, it’s as though they have a superiority complex, am I supposed to conform to their stuck-up way of being just to get by? There’s an exceeding amount of snobbery in the galleries where I’m from, privilege comes first in the club, support for people trying to succeed is not present, I don’t relate to them and communication is void, I ask for help and they pretend like I haven’t said anything, it’s quite brutal, I’m serious.
6.) “Collaborate with another artist.”
Too many artists say they want to and then don’t follow through and ignore me as if there were no conversation, people don’t seem to want to work with me collaboratively, I’m very nice and cooperative but there seems to be zero reciprocation.
7.) “Get a .com domain with your name on it.”
I don’t have the means to do so, such cost is far out of reach.
8.) “Write articles, or have them ghostwritten for you on entertainment…”
I can’t do that myself without being cryptic and ambiguous, when I write I seem to lose people’s attention and I have no one to write for me.
9.) “Use social media.”
This one makes me laugh, over ten years I’ve been using social media and it has been a huge waste of my time. It is a cantankerous, nightmarish trigger-fest, reflecting a high-school drama infused with bar politics and international politics; a highly unprofessional setting where people mock my work and cut me down, people who don’t even know me, nor do or have they purchased any of my work, if there are/were any people who intend to be supportive, they fall silent.
10.) “Pay it forward.”
I do this too much and makes me a fool, it seems that when I’m being supportive they think it’s funny and begin to milk my supportiveness and act like I’m invisible, again, is my work so terrible that I don’t deserve a slight bit of reciprocation?
11.) “Network. Get involved in your area, and become part of the local chamber.”
I don’t know what you mean by chamber, unfortunately my local area is hostile towards artists and are looking to lowball and scam us, the art scene in my district is corrupt.
12.) “Use handwritten and hand-drawn marketing pieces.”
Yes, can do, fantastic.
13.) “Believe in yourself.”
Yes, good statement, very important, working on that on a daily basis with great difficulty.
14.) “Be driven; no one can want success more than you.”
Yes, been dragging myself out of bed every day.

]]> By: Meira Sasson https://artmarketingnews.com/self-promotion/#comments/41007 http://artprintissues.com/the-art-of-self-promotion-for-visual-artists#comment-41007 Thank you for the great article .
Very helpful .

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