All you need is your art, your phone and an internet connection. Here's what I'd skip, what I'd spend on (and when), so your first sales pay for everything after.
Keep reading: How do you start an art business with no money?
No logo, no Etsy shop, no website. Here's exactly what I'd do (in order) to make my first $1,000 as an artist starting from zero.
Keep reading: If I had to make my first $1,000 from my art again, I'd skip the website.
Bond content connects your work to something your ideal customer already cares about. Here's the whole system (bond, belief and buy content), the real examples behind it, and how to make each kind.
Keep reading: People won't care about your work by default, and bond content is how you make them.
A few weeks ago, Joseph came to me with a question. He'd just left his job, and he has four months of financial runway. "What would you do if you were me, Kelsey?"
Keep reading: How do I go full-time in just 4 months?
I tried glassblowing for the first time last weekend. Three hours later, I'd only been on the bench for maybe forty five minutes of it... and yet I left knowing more about glass than I know about clay after five weeks of ceramics classes.
Keep reading: Things caught on fire and my instructor didn't care
I sat down to run the math on my Instagram experiment so far, and was NOT expecting to be so annoyed by the results.
Keep reading: I ran the numbers on IG vs YouTube
I've been staring at the results of one of my new students, Ellice, for the better part of the past two weeks. She only changed one thing, and she went from 500 views to over 2,000 overnight.
Keep reading: Why you aren't getting views
I just spent a little over $700 on a bet that I'm making with myself, that I'll spend the rest of the summer posting on a new platform.
Keep reading: I posted on IG for the first time in YEARS