Sunday, August 9, 2009

Achieve Your Creative Endeavor Dreams With A Marketing Mentor

By Leigh-Ann Lemire

Linking up with an advertising and promotion guide to help you sell your artistic creations can be a great boost to your success as an artist, and that's what this little piece of writing is about.

Specifically, you will learn:

-at the beginning, selling your artistic creations may not be easy.

-how to find a "marketing mentor" who wants to help artists, to get you through the difficulties.

-the necessity of getting your mentor to inform you about time management.

Your dream in the arts can become actuality. Use the information in this article to find the right person to help make it reality.

When you are just starting out trying to sell your works as a creative individual, you will come across family and friends that encourage you. You may come across some folks that have bright ideas that give you a boost forward. You may know some techniques of marketing and selling that get you some sales, too. This will get you started.

That will get you started, but what you really want to do is quit your day job. How do you make the leap from selling an artwork once in a while to selling enough to pay the bills and prosper?

Where do you find a person who can tell you want to do? What do you have to do to make a success of yourself as an artist?

There are many mentors for marketing that are very skilled. What you need to do is find a marketing mentor that is focused on helping talented folks.

A sign that you may be getting close to a person who can help you is if you've found a person who is also a talented artist and successful in his/her field. You don't want a guide who hasn't even tried what s/he is telling you to do. A prosperous painter, actor, musician, etc., will know what to do because he or she has done it and it worked.

A successful artist who makes a living through art and also has time to help you is indeed gifted in time management. Learn everything you can about the subject from your chosen mentor, lest you find yourself doing only advertising, promotion and selling with no time to actually create art.

You can see if your chosen mentor is a successful artist - does he/she support himself or herself by selling art? That would be the basic question.

If the person you are asking has a successful career and also can help you, the person is doing the right things. You want to copy that. You can make a living with your art, but you don't want to spend all your time doing advertising and selling and marketing and have no time left over to create.

Bring about your ideal scene in the arts. Do a little searching and questioning and find the right mentor for you. It would be well worth your while.

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