You’re promoting your art as best you can – or so you think.
I’ve offered some advice so frequently that I imagine you must be tired of hearing about it. But, then again, I’m not sure you’ve heard it.
For example, I’m still getting emails from artists with lame subject lines. I also continue visiting artists’ websites and blogs where their names are hidden.
So I made you a little checklist. Okay, not so little. But it’s valuable!
The special report, 50 Things You Can Do BETTER to Promote Your Art, is my 50th birthday gift to you. Download it here with no strings attached.
But Don’t Go Yet
If you’d like to help me celebrate my birthday in a much bigger way, I invite you to watch this video and join in my goal of raising $5000 for Charity:Water, which builds wells to bring clean drinking water to communities of 150-300 people.
As I say in the video, I have more than 12,000 newsletter subscribers and thousands more followers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter. If everyone gave just $5, think of the good we could do!
If you have benefited from the free advice here or on any of my sites, I hope you will help me celebrate my birthday in this way. Let’s, together, build an artist-sponsored, clean-water well for people who really need it.
Take 5 minutes to donate here. 100% of your donation goes directly to support a project.
Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for being here.
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Happy Birthday Alyson
I have been appreciative of your efforts over the years and so I am happy to part with 5 bucks for this wonderful cause.
Tricia Anders
Thank you, Alyson, for that wonderful list! I will refer to it often for inspiration.
Happy Birthday! ~ Mona
Hi Alyson,
Welcome to 50.
Please will you email me the pdf as I am having trouble downloading it from South Africa!
Cheers,
Karen
Happy birthday Alyson, welcome to the (50th) Club!!!
The list is so comprehensive and hepful, Thanks a lot!!
Happy Birthday, Alyson! I am very happy to donate to Charity:Water on behalf of your birthday! Thanks so much for everything you do to make this world a brighter place.
Happy 50th birthday, Alsyon.
What a wonderful gift to bless others with clean water. It is with great pleasure and gratitude to help support you with your wonderful goal.
Elaine
happy 50 !!! it’s a great year !!
I hope you have a fabulous Birthday, and you don’t look it!
Thanks for the tips, helpful as always. And what a wonderful way to celebrate a major birthday!
Keep up the good work!
I love this idea Alyson! Charity Water is a wonderful charity to donate to. After donating, I was so inspired that I signed up to pledge my birthday in the same way. Thank you for this opportunity.
Wow! Thank you, Lean!
Happy birthday Alyson! I love your birthday gift to us. Your “50 Things” list will be printed and hung in my studio. Thank you.
Ah, but don’t just hang it! Use it!
Could you just give me the name of your charity and the address and I will send a check. My computer is too slow to dig for that info. Thanks.
Isabel: Thanks for considering this. Here’s what it says on their site. Send checks to . . .
charity: water
200 Varick Street, Suite 201
New York, NY 10014
EIN: 22-3936753
Make checks payable to charity: water. If you’re donating in honor of someone, sponsoring a water project or want to direct your donation to our operating costs, please write that in the memo of your check. Tax receipts will be mailed within four to six weeks after the donation has been processed.
Happy birthday wishes to you and thanks for offering the guide – I always love your tips and advice. I’ve gone ahead and donated as well – I think it’s a great way to fundraise by offering the download – fabulous!
Happy Birthday Alyson!
I am happy to celebrate with you in this way and have just taken the few minutes to do so. What a fabulous and important cause. Thank you for selecting to do this,
Pamela
Let’s do some good…
Thanks, Juan!
Happy Birthday Alyson!! I found that being in my 50′s has been fabulous…I wish you the same! Thanks for all the incredible information you share with us! I was able to give a little bit to your cause…good luck!!
Hoppy burfday! Thanks for your PDF…every one of them was pertinent and had value.
Thanks for the 50 things, a valuable tool to reference often.
And happy birthday, Alyson.
Bam!. Note to self – GET OUT OF THE ART ROOM MORE OFTEN. Happy b-day!
YES!
….a beautiful cause and a beautiful art biz coach- I could tell you were really touched by the stories of the young girls who had to sacrifice an education to seek out this basic liquid human necessity.
p.s. It makes me feel old to say this, but I remember the 50″s with fondness. Have a great weekend of celebration!
Aw, thank you, Nanci. The horror stories of those girls (I saved you from them) were heartbreaking.
Happy 50th, Alyson! Welcome to the club
Thank you for sharing your experiences and tips with us. A donation to a good cause in appreciation of your help is an easy thing to do.
Alyson, I am not able to download this on my Mac/Foxfire browser … is there another way for me to see this. Thanks- Lenore *Happy Birthday*
Lenore: I just downloaded from my Mac/Firefox, so maybe reboot and try later. Gremlins!
Got it … thanks!
Thank you, EVERYONE! I’m so very grateful for your kindness.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thank you for the check list!!! Valuable as always
Hi Alyson,Happy B Day to you!
Interesting enough,I too want to support the efforts of this organization,Charity Water. It is on my website http://www.beethovenshomage.com and says some of the proceeds from my newly published book (and I will be doing the same at future performances) will go to this organization.
So,when hearing your video here I got the idea,to partner up. Hum,to offer a discount to folks on your “list” some kind of incentive “deal” when they buy my book. I have not thought this through,but wanted to run this concept by you in consideration of raising monies for this cause as well as more folks looking at my book,etc.. The website is till being worked on with more art to be offered very soon.
I very much appreciate what you do and know of only a few folks who do this kind of work for artists. I am a visual artist artist as well and…
While I perhaps have your attention here,it occurs to me that you maybe someone I can speak to share a perhaps out-of-the box,yet innovative new way for visual artists to reach buying customers. I,like many of us,do not have the level of commitment it would take to birth this,but there may be more business minded folks who do–and this business idea for the arts may really assist in bolstering art sales around the world.
In either case, I welcome to hear back from you. You can reach me best via my email.
Happy Birthday Alyson!
“I never feel age…If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.” ~Louise Nevelson at age 80
I will be leaving my 50′s this year and joining the 60′s club.
Thank you for all of your gifts of information!
“22. Don’t ever apologize for not posting. No one noticed.”
I love this advice … we have all done it and yes it is rather stupid.
Happy Birthday! I ran away to the beach at 50 and here you are, showing up and being generous as always:) Wishing you abundance, creativity and love in your next 50 years ahead.
Thanks so much and have a very Happy Birthday.
I think life just gets better and better the older I get and I wish the same for you. Have a Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Alyson. And thank you for all your wonderful and inspiring advice.
A great list of 50 things. Thank you. I WILL get my newsletter going this year! I am quite determined. I just wrote a marketing plan inspired by your 50 things. I have listed all the things I will be doing (and keeping up with!) for my website/blog, Facebook, newsletter, email and hand written notes. Now to carry it all out.
Hope you’ve had a wonderful day!
Great job, Naomi! If you ever post that anywhere, I’d love to share it.
Hi Alyson, Happy Birthday! Thanks for all that you do for us and for the 50 Things List….it’s awesome….truly appreciated!
Happy Birthday!
I love your blog, and appreciate you share your information freely. I am excited about your goal! I have re posted, blogged, tagged, stumbled, tweeted..you get the picture to try and help you spread the word even more.
And thank you again, for all you do
Thank you, Tish. I really appreciate that! (Tish was my great-grandmother’s name.)
Welcome to the club! Happy Birthday, Alyson, and I’m happy to contribute to such a worthwhile cause.
Happy Birthday! Mine is next week. Winter babies are the best. LOL. Promoting a worthy charity in this way is a wonderful way to celebrate.
Great list, by the way. It will be fun checking things off then coming around and doing them again. Because we can ALWAYS do better.
Happy birthday, Alyson. Thanks for all you do.
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the gift. I haven’t read it ALL yet, but I’m taking it to bed with me tonight.
Thank you for all you do for us artists –and those in need of water. I just sent off my check.
Thank you so much, Claire.
Love your website
will come again!
Thanks, Daniel!
I’m so glad you were born! Here’s to the next 50 years being fantastic!
I’ve been reading your blog over the past few months for all the helpful information, like these pointers. Thanks for posting them… and Happy Birthday.
Thanks, Domenick!
Congrats on another killer trip around the sun, Alyson.
I’ve only finished reading the first page of the “50 Things” special report and I’ve already seen a few things I could work on.
Thanks for the reminder!
Yay Alyson! –
Welcome to 50 – it just keeps getting better from here!
And thanks for sharing all that you do with us, including this inspired and helpful list.
Hugs from Yes and Yay HQ
Frances
Some nice advice, thank you.
Thank you for the great ideas!
Wow, very informative! As someone who is just a beginner in marketing my art, I see a few things on this list that I would otherwise have probably learned the hard way. Thank you so much for the tips and insight!
Happy belated birthday Alyson!
It was too late to pledge for you birthday fundraiser. However, I sent a check to help the cause.
I am blessed.
Robin
Robin: That’s so nice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.