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Cory Huff: "Staying motivated in making art is really difficult sometimes. It takes a lot out of you. Not only do you put in a lot of emotional and mental effort thinking up and creating individual pieces and performances, but then you have to spend time figuring out how to get the word out about your work and how to sell it." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: How do you stay motivated to keep creating your art?

Cory Huff: "People who visit from your newsletter are most likely to buy." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Newsletter, newsletter, newsletter. It's just so important!

Cory Huff: "Build a List. This is crucially important, and too many artists miss this. Once you start getting attention you need a way to keep their attention." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: We say it all the time - you need a mailing list!

Cory Huff: "If you are smart, you'll also have your website set up to display your art in a gallery that gives each piece it's own page. If you've done this, then you can turn your artwork into an army of likable objects that do a ton of marketing for you. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Some thoughts on how to use Facebook to market your art.

Cory Huff: "I firmly believe that artists can overcome the starving artist notion. I think any artist can. I've met too many artists, of varying degrees of talent, who have been extremely financially successful. Many of them succeed beyond what most artists ever dream they could achieve." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Cory Huff talks about being in the art business.

Cory Huff: "Your blog and your website should be one and the same, both visually, and on the back end (they should live on the same server in the same directory). This helps not only your visitors, but also the search engines like Google." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Your blog and your website should be one and the same for maximum effectiveness.

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Cory Huff: "When you stop doing business like everyone else, you find yourself sailing on a completely different sea. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: How can you be creative in your marketing?

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Cory Huff: "You can make the most exquisite sculpture. You can be the greatest singer in the world. You could have the capacity to make people weep with a single glance. If no one sees it, no one will ever know. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Do you believe any of these marketing myths?

Cory Huff: "Artists lead a funny life. We purposefully choose to do something that is incredibly fulfilling and at the same time emotionally exhausting." Visit this link >>

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Cory Huff: "Before the Web, an artist had to market themselves through galleries and other set channels. That doesn't need to happen now. Insurgent creatives can market themselves with great power and authority while running circles around the big corporations that are doing things the way they've always been done." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: The web has changed the art marketing game completely.

Cory Huff: "What I have noticed over the last year is that many artists who are financially and artistically successful spend the majority of their time with people who are not full-time artists." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Getting different perspectives from people outside the arts can help you be more successful.

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Cory Huff: "Networking makes your career. It makes your business. It can make you as an artist. If you're just spamming Twitter with sales listings, you're wasting a valuable opportunity." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Are you using Twitter to sell or to connect?

Cory Huff: "There are a lot of important things you can do to sell your art. Great technique, good connections, the right background, and a beautiful website. If you don't have confidence, however, you'll find it difficult to seal the deal. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: When you sell your work, are you confident?

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Cory Huff: "Talk about our work and how it affects you, your friends & family, and your community. Talk about your passion and your inspiration. Artists are inherently interesting." Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Some really great newsletter tips.

Cory Huff: "Art is wild, unrestrained. Art has always pushed boundaries. Most of history's great artists pushed boundaries on what was acceptable in the art form. " Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: You don't have to be in a gallery to be considered a "real" artist.

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Cory Huff: "You'd be amazed at how much you can learn just by tracking, for example, the number of people who buy something whenever you send out an email announcing your new art for sale" Visit this link >>

Sarah Lacy: Do you track your web stats to figure out what's most popular?

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