artKarolina
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Hi everyone,
I decided to join the forum after lurking for a few weeks. I've been looking for a more serious entrepreneur forum for a while...
I'm a creative entrepreneur. Basically, someone who got an art degree but isn't a total idiot and realized I have to eat. I'm a co-owner of a video production company that's been active for 5 yrs approximately. I don't make a crazy amount of money, but I'm saving for a house so things are going well enough. We focus 100% on quality over quantity, whether we are shooting a social media ad video or a 1 hour special.
Other challenge I'm pursuing is the "impossible" - selling original art. Now I know artists are a dime a dozen and most don't have any track record (frankly the shame is most artists don't realize art is a business). I do. I've been selling art since I was 15, when I made my first $50. I paid my rent with art in university. I've probably sold around $10k in art through hustling (I'd have better numbers but teenager/university me didn't care about bookkeeping like entrepreneur me does now). It's truly a challenge because art is a luxury product (no one needs to own art like they need bread and butter or a car), it's hard to define a market, and it's hard gathering statistics on the market.
My ultimate goal is to be creative to make money to stay creative. I'd be amazing if I could be an artist millionaire but I mostly am happy to just have my art actually on walls and not piling in my studio.
As much as I don't have huge money to play with, eliquid's ad advice has already helped me, so thank you.
I decided to join the forum after lurking for a few weeks. I've been looking for a more serious entrepreneur forum for a while...
I'm a creative entrepreneur. Basically, someone who got an art degree but isn't a total idiot and realized I have to eat. I'm a co-owner of a video production company that's been active for 5 yrs approximately. I don't make a crazy amount of money, but I'm saving for a house so things are going well enough. We focus 100% on quality over quantity, whether we are shooting a social media ad video or a 1 hour special.
Other challenge I'm pursuing is the "impossible" - selling original art. Now I know artists are a dime a dozen and most don't have any track record (frankly the shame is most artists don't realize art is a business). I do. I've been selling art since I was 15, when I made my first $50. I paid my rent with art in university. I've probably sold around $10k in art through hustling (I'd have better numbers but teenager/university me didn't care about bookkeeping like entrepreneur me does now). It's truly a challenge because art is a luxury product (no one needs to own art like they need bread and butter or a car), it's hard to define a market, and it's hard gathering statistics on the market.
My ultimate goal is to be creative to make money to stay creative. I'd be amazing if I could be an artist millionaire but I mostly am happy to just have my art actually on walls and not piling in my studio.
As much as I don't have huge money to play with, eliquid's ad advice has already helped me, so thank you.
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