by Mike Roy | Oct 30, 2014 | Blog, Business, Creativity, Mindset
As painful as this is… It’s time to talk about fear. Nobody except for crazy people are immune to fear. Artists are especially vulnerable to fear, because by necessity we have to be sensitive to the world around us. We get used to our fears. We’re so...
by Mike Roy | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog, Business
Sam loves the crane machine. For my son Sam, who has autism, the crane machine is the perfect storm of everything he loves. Mechanical appearance and noises: check. Bright colors: check. Fuzzy reward after x number of attempts: check. I cringe whenever we pass it....
by Mike Roy | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Business, Money
Why do we think of sales as a dirty process to be avoided? Are our negative experiences with invasive telemarketers and over-inquisitive department store staff causing us to see all sales in a negative way? I can certainly relate with that feeling. I value my privacy...
by Mike Roy | Jun 3, 2014 | Blog, Business, Marketing
Are you feeling that your market just isn’t responding to your art? Do you ever think you picked the wrong creative niche? Do you have the sense that your creative career is stale, moving in slow motion? It could be that your art business or career is in need of...
by Mike Roy | May 30, 2014 | Blog, Business, Money
It almost seems like they don’t belong in the same sentence: “finance” and “art“. In fact, many who create for a living prefer to just make pretty stuff and let others do the “dirty work” of number crunching. But to...
by Mike Roy | May 26, 2014 | Blog, Business, Marketing, Money
Selling Doesn’t Have To Be Scary Words like “selling” can be terrifying to an artist. I certainly avoided the word like the plague nearly all of my life, ever since I was pressed into selling magazines for my school fundraiser. It was here, in sixth...
