by Mike Roy | Dec 27, 2014 | Blog, Business, Marketing
We all could use some more eyeballs on our work. But like a busy city, the internet is crammed full of noise and lots of people clamoring for relevant attention. There are a lot of opinions and ideas about how to get more internet based traffic to your online gallery...
by Mike Roy | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Creativity, Fulfillment, Myths
This is the third in a series of posts called “The 12 Artist Myths” that explores the most common widely held beliefs people have about artists and creative individuals of all types. It also represents beliefs that we artists have about ourselves that hold...
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 | 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...
