Two Creative Guys Talk Shopify and Viruses
You may know that I use Shopify for my web presence. Well, Adam does as well, and he's been doing it longer than me. I had some people ask m...
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20 of 25 episodesRethinking the gallery experience, with Amy Stock
Although there are many artists who would publicly say they don't care about not having gallery representation, and prefer the independence...
What does your community owe you?
Back for Round 2, this time Adam and I get into what community means in our work, and how much they owe us as creators who provide content,...
...AND we're back!
It's a new year, and a new opportunity to chat with Adam again. This one was so good we decided to do it twice. If you have 90 seconds to sp...
Sculptor Tracey Weiss Knocks Down the Ivory Tower
You may think you know about the art establishment, and you might even be right, but I guarantee that artist, sculptor, and professor, Trace...
Artist Stacey MacNevin is spirit animal
Have you ever met someone who not only embodies everything you wish you were in real life, but also one of the kindest, most generous indivi...
Excuse us while we pause for station identification
This conversation with Adam is a good one. I finally get a chance to revisit my experience with Tik Tok. We also talk about serendipitous si...
It's a social media breakdown
Adam is back in the open-air studio, absent of squirrels and helicopters, but chock full of hot content about social media, selling product,...
Do NOT Sleep on Tik Tok
You may or may not know what Tik Tok is, but you should definitely get educated. Maybe you shy away from social media in general, but I can...
Sometimes the planets don't align
Sorry folks, this is not your regularly scheduled program. Adam and I wanted to bang out a new episode, but things didn't work out that way.
Top 10 Creative Cowboys That Changed My Career
My heroes have always been cowboys! No, that's not just a Waylon Jenning's song—it's an ideology, a continuous strain of a methodology that...
Artist Stephanie Han talks art scene, coffee, and mosquitoes
Today I have one of our very own, Stephanie Han back on the show after about a year. Last time we talked about how we got where we are today...
Why I moved my online store back to Shopify
First there was WooCommerce. Then there was Shopify. That lead to Squarespace, but now I'm back to Shopify and here's why. Notable Links Jul...
Instagram, Facebook, Patreon, and PUGS!
We're back from hiatus. This time we get deep on hard vs. soft selling, Instagram advertising, when to charge vs. giving away things for fre...
10 Ways to Measure Success in Your Creative Work
The other day I found myself looking through the Instagram profiles of a couple more popular artists, and wondering how they had such a sign...
Adam drinks my coffee and drops knowledge bombs
Stop making the art business so much more complicated that it needs to be, Dave. That’s the voice in my head when I hear some of the reality...
5 Ways to Fight Mercury Retrograde
Let me be clear, I do not support the idea of Mercury's path through the universe having any control over what happens to us here on Earth,...
REPLAY - The crossroads of art and commerce
I’m sharing an older episode, one of the first of Adam and i talking, and one of my favorite chats about art and commerce. There’s plenty of...
First Time Art Show Recap
In this episode I take the content of my most recent YouTube video (link below), where I talk about all the lessons learned from my first ti...
Jason Reece of Trail of Dead talks music, art, and business
Today is a little different because I’ve invited Jason Reece of And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead to come talk about how music and a...