Starting an online art business feels overwhelming and slow. Is this normal?

Yes, it’s really hard to get started. Getting your first email subscribers, first website visitors, and first social media followers is a grind. It can feel soul-crushing at times—you work and work and feel like you’re spinning your tires. This is the classic entrepreneur experience. But the good news is that being small gives you unique advantages. You can do things that won’t scale later but that create incredible wow moments for your early audience.

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Asked by an artist discouraged by slow initial progress · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2018-02-14