When should I ask for help or expert advice about my art business decisions?

Don’t ask for approval or expert opinion before getting to market. Instead, launch whatever you’re considering—whether it’s a product, pricing, or marketing initiative—then come back with what happened. The most valuable thing is real market data: go to market, collect the information about what happens, and then you have something concrete to work with for making better decisions. With that market feedback, you can iterate and improve. An expert can help you much more effectively when you bring actual results and data from the market rather than hypothetical questions about what you should do.

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Asked by teaching point · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2020-06-22