How important is it to optimize my daily decisions in my art business?

Your business is simply the sum of your daily decisions. Your job as a business owner every day is to optimize your business toward perfection, just one step forward each day. That one step might even be a failure where you learned not to do something—you still got better. Many artists don’t have lots of sales yet but if you look back at what they’ve learned over three months, six months, a year, or two years, they’re completely different people. They’ve learned so much about business, entrepreneurship, and marketing. They’re probably just a couple tweaks away from finding the right product or audience and figuring out that equation where things start going. This progression is common—people work at it for one, two, three, or even five years, then in the sixth year everything clicks and they hit six figures.

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Asked by an artist learning to improve their business · Answered by Nick Friend · art-marketing-podcast · 2023-12-20