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Marketing has been an essential and super-fun aspect of growing Creativity Matters.
But it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, not so long ago, that I viewed marketing as a total drain, and something that seemed to steal time and energy away from my other creative pursuits.
Thank goodness for my dear friend Ann Rea, founder of Artist Who THRIVE, who I met through the National Speakers Association. In her first year as a full time artist, she made over $100K.
Since then, Ann’s been on a mission, (dare I say crusade?!!) to do away with the long held, but totally limiting myth of the starving artist.
Back in 2012, when I complained to her about marketing getting in the way of my creativity, she glared at me, raised her voice, and, like a bolt of lightning, had this to say to me:
“Austin, Get out of your %$&%&*(#@ head!! Marketing IS part of your creativity!!!”
Whoa my! Her advice changed everything for me!
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How do you feel about marketing? Please leave a comment below.
Thank you Ann! And thank you all out there being willing to take your own creativity seriously enough to make a fantastic living, and an amazing life, out of it.
Austin,
Your seeds a freekin’ Sequoia cones, man. I totally feel them taking root internally and externally.
Thanks for sharing the love and insight. Wonder-ful work!
Sean
Love this, Austin! What a beautiful tree–and I love thinking of it as a whole with the seen and unseen parts, connecting earth and sky. I appreciate your metaphor of the seeds going out. I just got back from a retreat with my beloved meditation group, and I volunteered to co-host my teacher’s visit to the Bay Area this winter. As part of that, I will need to do some promotion of the event and reaching out to people. That is sometimes hard for me because I have this negative association with Christian evangelicals of my youth trying to push their beliefs on me, and I have no interest in bringing any of that energy to my own spiritual path in any way. Part of me just likes to think if people are meant to be there, they will show up–but it’s also true that I can probably make that more likely by putting out some seeds and ensuring that people know about the opportunity. Much love!
Thank you for your comment, Lisa! I hear you: there is little worse than fear-based messaging trying to save you from going to hell, whatever that hell may be. And, with all the noise out there telling us, in some way shape or form, that we’re not good enough, its essential that those opportunities that feed our human spirit make it out there, too. Indeed, I’ve struggled with the same issues: why add to the noise? Now I see it as my duty to serve others by efforting to get my message out there. Much love to you too!