Stimulate your thinking by opening any book at random and put your finger down on a word: I grabbed James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and my finger found the word “companion”.
How does the word you found relate to what you’re doing? What associations can you make? What random ideas can you try?
Companion reminded my of all the awesome people I work with. Clients as well as business partners. One partnership I’m really excited about is with Sebastian Costa of SLO Digital Designs. He does great work, check out the website. I’m hoping to work with him on many more projects. If you’ve been thinking about getting a website or improving the look and usability of your current one, give either of us a call! We’d love to make you one of our companions!
Yep, it’s that time of the year again. Time to be creative. And the cool thing is that you get one more hour tonight as we fall back into the winter time. What are you going to do with that extra hour?
I know I will be cuddling with my little pumpkin and thinking about the things to come, getting a head start on my New Year’s resolution. I was asked if I’d like to present some marketing workshops for artists and other creative people, focusing on topics like social networking, branding and email marketing to promote your art and crafts successfully. So, I’m preparing a series of hands-on seminars for the coming spring and I’d like to get your input.
The idea is not only to hear me talk about how to do things, but to get things done. Participating artists will work on their own marketing materials during the workshop and receive advice and input from me and guest artists on the spot. We will share individual steps with the group and get feedback right away. You will go home with a ton of information and the feeling that you actually accomplished something already. If you don’t have a media kit yet, or no idea how to get started with facebook, twitter and the like, this series will be for you.
Please let me know below which topics you are most interested in. You can select as many as you like and add your own suggestions if I forgot something that is of importance to you.
And to show my appreciation for your feedback I will give away a matted print of one of my pictures. All you have to do is vote on the poll below and leave a comment saying “I am committed to making next year my most successful one, yet!”, and I also want to know what you’re doing with your extra hour tonight!
“To fight a bull when you’re not scared is nothing,” says a well-known bull fighter. “And not to fight a bull when you’re scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you’re scared – that is something.”
When was the last time you went to the arena to fight a bull of an idea? What gives you the courage to act on your ideas? Having a well-thought plan? Encouragement? Faith in the idea? Past success?
Curiosity and passion for what I do are the lions in my heart. If I hate what I do, I can’t stand up for it, nor can I do it well. That means I end up doing a lot of things just for fun. And that also means that my days are usually too short…
For example, having just returned from a couple months of backpacking through Mexico, Cuba and Belize a few years ago, I decided to draw my very own world map. It greatly improved my geography knowledge and now hangs in our bedroom. Roaaar…
Stimulate your thinking by opening any book at random and put your finger down on a word: I grabbed James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and my finger found the word “companion”.
