Comments on: Are you Targeting your Art Market? https://artistswhothrive.com/2010/10/1201 creative freedom + business savvy Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Jeffrey Sumber https://artistswhothrive.com/2010/10/1201/comment-page-1#comment-5743 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:44:35 +0000 https://artistswhothrive.com/?p=1201#comment-5743 Love this post. So true, and sometimes so hard as we put so much energy in promoting just one strain of our business/message/passion. My wife and I constantly joke about some of the Mexican shops in our neighborhood that write just about EVERY item on their menu in the window or list EVERY country their phone cards will work in on the WINDOW! The line needs to be drawn, but we tend to get so worried that we’ll lose that one customer or interested party if we don’t put it all out there!

All the best,

Jeffrey
https://jeffreysumber.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/oktoberfest-skinheads-and-islamophobia/

]]> By: Jean M. Judd https://artistswhothrive.com/2010/10/1201/comment-page-1#comment-5737 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:59:17 +0000 https://artistswhothrive.com/?p=1201#comment-5737 A great post, Ann and some food for thought for all artists to really look at their web sites and see what they can do to be more focused.

For those who teach their skill to others, I think this aspect should be included on their fine art site or maybe more heavily promoted on their blogs so that the artwork is the most prominent aspect if that is indeed what the goal is.

I have met several artists who tell me that selling their work is not their goal, but sharing their knowledge through teaching is their goal. Then I think their web sites should be the exact opposite — their teaching should dominate and the artwork should be incidental to this since they really aren’t driven to sell but need their work for classes.

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