I‘d heard about Square quite a bit from our neighbours to the south, so I was really excited and happy when they expanded beyond the States and into Canada. Here’s the setup: let’s say you’re an artist and you sometimes […]
I recently read this brilliant blog post by Kevin Kelly at The Technium, and felt compelled to share it with you: One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans. While some artists have discovered this path without calling it that, […]
I’m a writer, a writer of fiction. Fiction contains dialogue. People talk to each other in stories. We all know that. What took me some time to realize is that the conversations going on in my head about my own […]
On a certain evening not so long ago, I was indulging in one of my favorite secret pleasures: a glass of wine (probably something red) and TLC’s What Not to Wear. After the show was over, another show came on, […]
Originally published March 31, 2008 on The Next Stage) This month’s Art of the Business deals with a term you may or may not have heard before: touchpoints. A touchpoint is any way that your consumer, or end-user, comes in […]
(originally published February 27, 2008, on The Next Stage) Okay, I know what you’re thinking: this is a column that is supposed to be dedicated to tips and tricks about marketing artists, right? So what the heck is this whole […]
(originally published on January 31, 2008 on The Next Stage) As actors, we spend a great deal of our time training to become masters of our art. We go to theatre school, we read all the books on acting, we […]