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There are lots of people out there who want to teach you how to market your art with social media.  And that can be a good thing.   Sometimes though, the advice seems to focus so much on "how to get more followers".   So here's the thing.  If your profession is being a social media consultant....then it's probably important to have a lot of followers.  It's proof that you're good at what you do.   But if you're an artist, that's not what you do.  What you do is create art.  And having a lot of followers tells the world nothing about how great of an [...]

    In Systematic Wandering, I wrote:   The danger with goals, is that is becomes very easy to become focused on the goal, to the exclusion of better options.     Don't Miss Chance Opportunities   I recently came across the research of Richard Wiseman.     Professor Wiseman devised a simple experiment to test the differences between self-described "lucky" vs. "unlucky" people when presented with chance opportunities.  From his paper:   Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a very simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave [...]

  FASO was originally created as a website builder for artists and, over time, it has evolved into much more, for both our wonderful customers and for all the "Fasonians" who work here.  As the years passed, we've added additional products and features to our offering such as: ArtfulMail Newsletter Creator, StudioQuill Blogs, the BoldBrush Art Contest, FineArtViews Marketing Newsletters and our member forum.    Our company, Boldbrush, Inc and our flagship site, FASO, have come to stand for "inspiration through art".   Art is inspiring to create, to share, and to view and we've made it our mission to inspire the world's artists, [...]