All About Rodeos

Finally a group for those hard working Banner designers of RB!!! After all Banners are a work of art!! Join up and display your banners!!! Only condition is that they are used in a RB group somewhere at some stage… Banners. They are those loverly colourful pieces of work of all shapes and sizes that appear on your artwork when you’re won a challenge, joined a group, been placed in a top ten etc… / Lets see those banners. Show them off here!! Be rewarded for your hard work in the form of comments and, yes, BANNERS!!!!!! :)) / SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!! Beside all the the above, it’s also a great way to plug your group a bit more ;) Di / xo

This applies to all artists looking to sell their work. I’ve been surfing thru Twitter tonight and came across a photographer/blogger that had some very sage advice. His twitter account is PhotoJack, and although I like to steer away from people named Jack (long story), I do find his tweets & retweets rather advantagous and sage. / So for those of you RB’ers who are looking for a plan to market your artwork and want to do more than sit here hoping somebody will notice that you’re extraordinarily talented and can’t live without filling their home, business and/or Mom’s house with your arwork, then heed what PhotoJack has to say: / FYI…I have no idea what a TOG is, but I’m assuming it’s an acronym for something or someone. / Tweet #1: for Togs waiting for economy to hand them work-it’s going to be a long wait. Take charge. Create your own destiny. Now. / Tweet #2: Togs. get pen/paper out and write down today 20 measurable action items you can begin to intitiate to get LOCAL business / Tweet #3: Bad business plan: “People will buy my stuff”. Good business plan: “I’ll sell stuff to people” ;) / Tweet #4: Togs create their own destiny by creating/executing written, measurable, defineable action lists. then doing it better, cheaper, smarter / Tweet #5: Rule no 1. if it’s not on paper then it ain’t real. Commit to writing actions. with measurable goals and deadline / Tweet #6: Rule no 2. Togs fear writing down their business plan and strategies because it make’s them accountable to the plan. / Tweet #7: (Gotta love this visual – very empowering!!!) Rule no. 3 take what’s in your head (creative ideas), to your fingers (writing it down), to your feet (walk the talk). Re-read this one a few times…it doesn’t get any better than this!!! / Tweet #8: (For those who have never written a business plan) I’m not talking full blown business plan. but a 1 pager full of actionable items you want to do for your biz. / So there you have it…a list of suggestions to get your business of selling your artwork off the ground. / Who says I don’t know how to share the love???? LOL… / Ok people, make sure you have your business plans on my desk first thing tomorrow morning!! / / Hugs, S.