Posts Tagged ‘business’

For the Last 12 Hours…

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

I’ve been working on

this HubPage

… so I’m in no shape to post up the words to that last experimental video. I will tommorrow..

That HubPage above (which you can find through the link) is basically to give you insight into how I go about art and business. I’m too tired to say more right now, but thank you for coming and OH… atleast one bid on each auction now! :)

 

Thanks guys, sleep well

An inside look at my personal start up

Friday, June 6th, 2008

This will be a quick post. I’ll have a new video posted to YouTube today before too long. The poem’s written, all I need to do is shoot the video but the youngest member of the household must first be nestled soundly into her crib. :)

Also, I’m preparing some articles about the start-up of this site and my own career as an artist. I want to show how I’m starting and write the information about how that’s going as I go rather than looking back afterwards. Hopefully this will help someone at some point. I’ve always wished those I look up to would’ve done something similar so I figured, why not do it myself? I’ll be showing how I started up this blog (and Happy Horror, also) and telling about how long it took to gain traffic and that sort of thing. I may or may not have any powerful insight or tips, but I want to make a record of what I’ve done thus far along the trail that’s lead to the Million Dollar Poetry project. Even though I feel strongly that art and business overlap, I’ll try to categorize the posts into Art or Business so that those of you with a preference for one or the other can read what you’re more interested in. Watch for those articles within the week.

Right now my goal is to write at least a poem per day. I’ve obviously already got a sizeable collection of poetry (and some fiction) that I’ve written, but I feel as an artist it’s important to keep pushing, keep growing and moving forward (hopefully, upward!) so I’m trying to extra on top of maintaining this site and the others that I write for.

That’ll do it for now, but thank you very much for reading and supporting the project! Each of you help encourage me when things look a little less than positive.

2 Days left for E-bay!

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

So here we are with only a bit over 2 days left on the Ebay auctions. I’d link to them, but I don’t want to get obnoxious about it. You can find links to the 3 buttons up for bid over on this site’s homepage (this will take you there). From that page simply click on any of the big buttons, each one leads to an auction for that button.

I spent today slaving over Happy Horror, and doing maintenancy-type stuff along with learning how to use StumbleUpon which absolutely rocks! To whoever it was that ’stumbled’ this project’s page and brought us in so many visitors - THANK YOU! I truly appreciate that gesture.

I’m working on a new page that will go up soon, not a bio entirely, but close to that. I want to be able to give more insight into what all goes on in the day-to-day of this project. I’ve always dreamed of an artist or business person (since those are the people I most admire) giving a detailed and thorough account of their rise to wherever they are now. So, I’ll do it! :)

Starting in the next couple days I’ll be unveiling a few more things for the site and going into specifics about the different investments I’m making to help promote it. Hopefully by operating as transparently as I feel comfortable doing, I can show atleast one example of how an artist comes to be ‘professional’ and makes himself able to afford his own food.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll come back real soon! If you’d like there are also options along the side to sign up for my newsletter (which is simply a daily email that shows you my posts) or even text alerts. I have made sure there is NO spam/junk mail associated with either of them before setting up those services.

Goodnight!