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I took business advice from the wrong people (opens the original)
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I started freelancing as an illustrator in 2013 and spent two years piecing together advice from business people, courses, tutorials, and hundreds of saved posts.Then in 2015, I hired a coach who was also a hand-lettering artist and illustrator.Suddenly things like finding freelance clients, using social media, and marketing my work made way more sense because she understood how artists actually make money because she had ALREADY done it.It reminds me of learning a trade from back in the day. If
Is it time for artists to leave Instagram? (opens the original)
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If you’re an artist wondering whether it’s finally time to leave Instagram, I need you to slow down before you delete ten years of work or decide your entire art business is failing.One artist recently told me they had been posting their work on Instagram for more than ten years and still couldn’t get ten people to look at it. I don’t think they need another speech about patience, consistency, or trusting the algorithm.Because ten years is enough evidence to ask whether the current strategy dese
Turn these 5 ideas into 30 days of art content (opens the original)
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Artists can create 30 days of social media content by choosing five strong ideas and giving each idea six different jobs.Hey, I’m Dean. I’ve spent the last 14 years building my art business Letter Shoppe online. My content now reaches more than 1 million people every month across my social platforms, and I’ve helped hundreds of artists grow their audiences and make more money from their work along side me. Now, you don’t need 30 new pieces of art or 30 completely different stories to make 30 pos
How to Start Freelancing With No Clients (opens the original)
Social media changed again. Here’s what actually matters for creatives (opens the original)
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Social media platforms change approximately every seventeen seconds, and I do not think your job as an artist should be spending your entire life trying to keep up with all of it. But I do think there is an advantage to knowing when a platform releases something genuinely useful, especially when being an early tester can give your content a little extra attention while everyone figures out what the hell the new button does.So I’m starting something new here. Every few weeks, I’m going to dig thr
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