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Download the PDA file and worksheets, print about 10 pages with three lessons per page, and apply the course principles to your art, writing, or craft.
Print these worksheet pages and use them to take notes as you watch and listen to the lessons.
Learn to become an empowered artist by giving yourself permission to succeed, valuing your own worth over external validation, and choosing to pursue your creative path.
Tame your inner and outer critics to empower your art, giving the inner voice a playful character and using feedback to refine your work without losing your vision.
Discover how empowered artists can harness positive thinking by firming up their filter. Feed the mind with positivity, affirmations, gratitude, and success stories while avoiding cynicism.
Discover how empowering questions drive artistic growth by turning disempowering doubts into solutions. Learn to ask questions that reach more people and expand opportunities in galleries, venues, and stage time.
Discover how to find creative support and encouragement by joining groups or mastermind circles, and teaming with accountability or success partners to stay motivated and energized in your artistic pursuit.
Rate and leave a review for this course to help others decide if it's worth taking. Your feedback boosts course visibility and shares the value you gained.
Reframe marketing as a strategic form of sharing that fits your authentic artist persona, tailoring your approach to your personality and focusing on what the audience gains rather than self-promotion.
Explore the four reasons artists create: self-satisfaction, recognition, benefiting others, and money. Learn to overlap your passion with a need or want in the world that people will pay for.
Establish a structured business model with three payment levels, from low-cost entry to high-end offerings. Develop multiple income streams beyond sales, including gigs, merch, licensing, and coaching.
Craft a brand identity statement that clearly communicates who you are and what you do. Use direct or intriguing approaches, test with friends, and spark follow-up on websites and cards.
The octopus marketing formula offers a big-picture framework for promoting your art online, centering on your own website and using social tentacles to drive traffic back to your site.
Discover how to make effective offers that encourage immediate purchases and higher value by using scarcity, limited-time or limited-quantity promos, adding exclusive content, and smart bundles, with consistent reminders.
Grow an email list and a mailing list to directly reach your fans, offering incentives. Regular updates, exclusive content, and the hub of your website keep them engaged.
Learn to enjoy the creative process, sustain joy for long-term career success, and design your own life by setting flexible hours, caring for yourself, and infusing play into all work.
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If you're reading this, you probably consider yourself to be a creative person. Great. But are you an "Empowered Artist"?
If you are truly empowered, you don't buy into the misguided notions of the "starving artist" or the "struggling artist."
You know that your gifts and talents have value, and that - once properly honed and presented to the world - you can make a difference and maybe even make a living with your art.
But most creatives don't start off their careers with that level of confidence, and with this course, I'm out to change that!
I've been blessed to have made a living most of my life from my creative endeavors. For the past ten years, my efforts as an author, speaker and teacher have paid the bills. I also supplement my income by playing music, selling original paintings, teaching and performing improv comedy, and more.
I know first-hand what it's like to live a rich, creative life. I also know there are countless others around the world who would like to do the same thing ... but convince themselves that it is not possible.
In this course I'll take you by the hand and walk you through:
Make no mistake. Creative people have a long history of making a difference in the world. Most innovation and human progress over the centuries has come from human beings who think like artists.
But for some reason, the role of the artist has become diluted, and even frowned upon, in many cultures. And that's just wrong!
Seriously, I'm tired of creative people being treated like second-class citizens (by themselves and others), when the truth is ... We are the ones who create the culture, innovation and new ideas that humanity needs now more than ever.
So, if you're ready to grow and thrive with your own unique brand of creativity, watch the welcome video and the preview lessons, then ...
Register for this course on Udemy today and get lifetime access to the lessons. Watch them on your computer, or on your smartphone or tablet using the free Udemy app.
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