Is it possible to start an art business in 2024 and actually make enough income to quit your job? In this episode, I'm sharing exactly what I would do if I was starting over - and how my strategies would still lead to success.

In this full time artist update episode, let's get into my personal finances, how I'm saving for retirement, how my business did this month, and the many ways I am making money as a self-employed artist.

Many artists fail to earn enough income selling their work to become self employed because they think and behave like artists, and not like entrepreneurs. In this episode, I'll share 6 reasons artists fail at business and what you need to do to achieve your goals of going full time selling your work.

Selling on multiple platforms is the key to earning enough income to become a full-time artist. In this episode, I'm sharing how to start selling your art on Shutterstock!

Most artists don't have the mindset required to be successful as a self-employed creative business owner, nor will they make the changes necessary to accomplish their dreams. In this episode, I share examples of thoughts and actions that you must let go of to become the full-time artist you were meant to be - and why these mindsets will lead to your failure.

Want to expand your revenue streams and make money selling art on a new platform? In this episode, I share Michaels Makerplace, a new selling platform for artists and creators of handmade goods.

In this full time artist update episode, let's get into my personal finances, how my business did this month, and the many ways I am making money as a self-employed artist.

Running ads is a great way to get more traffic to your store and to increase your art sales, but only if you know what you’re doing. Not all ad traffic is good traffic, and if you just run ads blindly without optimizing your listings or even knowing who you’re targeting, you can end up wasting a lot of money. So in this episode, let’s get into how to increase your art sales using ads.

My art business and brand turns 2 years old! In this episode, here are 3 lessons I've learned from selling my work over the last 2 years.

In this episode, I answer 10 of my most frequently asked questions about all things related to art business!

This is my seventh month of being a full-time artist! I'm sharing an update including hitting over 6 figures in art sales and how I've been making money this month!

A lot of customers are buying artwork for the holiday season, and if you want to stand out from the crowd and get in on those big sales, this is the episode for you. I’m gonna teach you how I double my art sales every single year during Christmas and how you can do the same this holiday season!

In this episode, I’m giving you six reasons your art is not selling and what you need to do to get those sales rolling. You can use this episode to diagnose your shop issues and figure out what you need to do next to move forward and start making real money as an artist!

In this episode, I'll teach you how to sell digital art prints & make passive income as an artist!

Do your art listing photos stand out from the crowd? If they don't, they won't sell! In this episode, learn how to take photos of your art that customers will actually click on and buy!

In this episode, I'm sharing a 6 month update as a full-time artist, including selling over 36,000 art prints & paying off over $30K in student loans!

Want to quit your job & sell your art full-time? In this episode, learn how to sell enough art to quit your 9-5 for good, including how much traffic you'll realistically need to get enough sales to quit.

I came across a YouTube artist who uploaded a video crying because her art wasn't selling enough for her to quit her job. In this episode, learn my take as a full-time artist, why emotional appeal DOESN'T work to get more art sales & what you should do instead.

Are you struggling to get art sales? Getting okay traffic but no sales? Your description section most likely needs work! In this episode, learn how to sell more art by writing compelling listing descriptions that will get more customers to add your art to their cart!

Are you struggling with low traffic & sales on your store? Your listing title is most likely the culprit! In this episode, learn how to write searchable listing titles that will get more traffic & more art sales!

This is my five month update as a full-time artist, so let’s get into my personal finances, how my business did this month, and ways I am making money, saving money and reducing my living expenses.

If you’re struggling to increase your revenue as an artist, consider selling seasonal art. Seasonal products have very high demand during certain times of the year which can really boost your sales. In my first year of business selling digital art and graphic designs, I made my first five figures in a single month selling seasonal art during Valentine’s Day in particular. This is because people love to give gifts during these special holidays. You’re pretty much guaranteed to see an increase in sales during at least one of these times of year! In this episode, let’s get into how selling seasonal products can help you increase your revenue, and which holidays I have found I sell the most artwork.

If you have a passion to make a living selling your art and you want to know how to quit your 9-to-5 job and become a full-time artist, this is the episode for you. Let’s get into six steps to make and save enough money to quit your job and how to sell enough art to pay your living expenses and more!

If you want to sell more artwork but you’re struggling to get customers, there’s a chance you’re trying to sell art that isn’t very popular. In this episode, let’s get into the art styles that sell the MOST so that you can increase your number of orders.

This is my fourth month as a full-time artist, and in this episode, I’ll be giving you an update on how things are going and ways I have been making money and reducing my living expenses this month.

You may have heard a lot about being a full-time artist and making a living selling your art, but how much of it is actually true? In this episode let’s get into 3 myths about being a full-time artist and what the truth actually is!

I mentioned in previous episodes that I got a brand new revenue stream for selling my digital art that far surpassed my expectations. This platform is called Cricut, and in my first month of being on Cricut I sold over 13K digital art prints! In this episode I’ll be sharing how I got this opportunity, how this platform works, and how you can sell your art prints on Cricut too!

If you are still struggling to make money as an artist and a creative, be honest, have you actually taken my advice into action? Or have you only had good intentions of doing these things? For every action, or lack there of, there is a consequence.  This is exactly what happened to someone who reached out to me for a critique on her Etsy store. She asked me how I get so much traffic to my store, how I get so many sales, and why she is struggling to get the same traction. After I took a good look at her store and gave her step-by-step directions on how she can improve her listings, get more traffic to her store and get more sales, my advice was ignored. A couple months later I looked back at her store, and while my store has surpassed 6000 orders, her store only got two. In this episode, I will share the struggles that this shop owner was going through, the exact advice that I gave her, how that advice would’ve helped her, and a breakdown of what happened as a result of her ignoring my advice.

In this episode, I'll share an exciting 3 month update on being a full-time artist - including a 5-figure sales month that helped me extend my financial runway through 2024!

Have you had someone request to buy your "NFT art"? Don't fall for the scam - in this episode I'll be revealing the fake accounts behind this NFT art scam and the red flags to look out for so you don't get got!

After 2 years of speaking my desires for a successful art business out loud & putting the work in, the goals I was able to achieve blew my mind. In this episode, I'll be revisiting my business manifestation goals & seeing what got accomplished after 2 years of daily affirmations followed by action!

When William Warren of The Sketch Effect reached out to me for my knowledge & expertise on selling art, I was incredibly honored & excited to share what I know. In this episode, learn my 3 art sales secrets from the book The Conquering Creative - for artists who want to make a full-time living selling their art, by artists who have successfully achieved it - & enter to win a free copy! Order The Conquering Creative here: https://www.amazon.com/Conquering-Creative-Shifts-Unstoppable-Business/dp/B0C2SCKX7Y/

I've been officially a full-time artist for 2 months now! In this episode I'll share an update on how things are going business-wise & ways I'm making money this month.

Now that I'm self-employed, I have ample time to pursue & enjoy the things I could not back when I was working at a job. In this episode I'll share 6 things I'm doing with my new-found freedom.

Two Weeks Notice - a book by Amy Porterfield, one of the first podcasters I listened to years ago when I first dreamed of turning my art business into my main source of income! In this episode I'll be sharing my thoughts on her book, which is about quitting your job to follow your dreams of entrepreneurship. Check out Amy's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Weeks-Notice-Courage-Change/dp/B0BVNRVJC5/

In this episode, learn how to start & maintain an art business in just 11 steps - a topic suggested by one of my listeners!

Scared to quit your 9-5 job but want to one day follow your dreams of being a full-time creative? You'll want to listen to this episode, where I'll share why this entrepreneur life is NOT for the timid. This might piss you off or it might inspire you, but it will definitely give you more clarity than you may have ever had before.

I'm officially a full-time artpreneur, but since I wasn't exactly prepared to quit my job, (I was abused into quitting, as you heard in my last 3 episodes), life isn't what I would have ever expected ... in this episode I'll share what my life - and finances - look like and everything that changed now that I no longer work for anyone.

It took me 4 days to decide when and how I would quit on my abusive manager - in this episode I'll share how I put in my 2 weeks, all the emotions I felt, and the period leading up to my very last day of being an employee, forever!

Part 2 of my story on how I had to quit my job to escape abuse from my manager - this includes all his control tactics that one day became too much to bear, and how I planned to flip the script on him and hand him my 2 weeks, way before I was ready to.

Have you ever dealt with an abusive boss? No one in my life knows this yet, but a few months ago, I had to quit my job ... for good. Not because I was ready to pursue being a full-time business owner, but to escape the turmoil of an abusive boss who got off on humiliating me. I'll share the full story over the course of several episodes throughout May. It might be triggering, but it's necessary to tell - and this experience led me right to my goal of working on my business full time.

Struggling to find customers? In this episode I'll share 3 ways to get more business and sales coming your way.

This time last year was extremely slow in sales - now I've been making $2K/month minimum in passive income. In this episode I'll share how I transformed my slow months into a steady stream of sales!

Ever wondered how you would handle the difficult decision of letting one of your team members go? In this episode I'll share everything that led to me firing my assistant.

I was featured on Mom and Pop Gems, a platform spotlighting rising entrepreneurs! In this episode I'll share what led me to starting my first online business 11 years ago, what I would have done differently, & the advice I would give others wanting to start a business.

This episode is part 4 of a 4-part book series where I’ll be sharing and discussing advice from my favorite books on entrepreneurship, money & success, and how the advice from these books are helping me make more in my business this year. This episode is called "what separates the rich from the poor", and the book I’ll be sharing from is called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Kiyosaki advocates the importance of financial literacy, financial independence, financial intelligence, and building wealth through investing in assets and starting and owning businesses. He grew up learning from two fathers - his own father, who struggled financially even though he was very educated and had a high position in his job, and his friend’s father, who didn’t finish high school but left his son a financial empire. Let’s get into the difference between the mentalities of his poor dad and his rich dad and why both of their lives went in such different directions - why his poor dad struggled with money despite his degrees and his high position job, and why his rich dad succeeded financially without a formal education.

This episode is part 3 of a 4-part book series where I’ll be sharing and discussing advice from my favorite books on entrepreneurship, money & success, and how the advice from these books are helping me make more in my business this year. This episode is called how to think & grow rich, and the book I’ll be sharing from is called Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It helps entrepreneurs examine the psychological power of thought and the brain in furthering your business financially and also for personal fulfillment. This is what I’ve always been saying - everything starts with your mindset, and this book breaks down the psychology of successful people and how achieving your big, bold goals starts with your thoughts. Having the ability to shift and control your thinking is what will make or break you as a business owner. It will determine whether you succeed in your entrepreneur journey. So let’s get into 9 of Napoleon Hill’s laws of success as written in Think & Grow Rich.

This episode is part 2 of a 4-part book series where I’ll be sharing and discussing advice from my favorite books on entrepreneurship, money & success, and how the advice from these books are helping me make more in my business this year. This episode is called how to win & influence your buyers, and the book I’ll be sharing from is called How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Dale Carnegie understood human nature - he discusses the psychology of people and how to use this to build solid relationships and influence people to follow in your direction. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” When you’re able to build good relationships with people, you’ll find that business success comes to you naturally, because being a business owner and having customers, especially the ones who come back again and again, is about building relationships. This is a critical skill that every entrepreneur who wants to be successful should be practicing. You simply won’t have a full time business for long unless you put these strategies into practice to win your customers over and keep them loyal and coming back to you. This is information that will never become outdated, standing the test of time for nearly 100 years. In this episode let’s get into 3 ways to win and influence your buyers to come back to you over and over again, helping you grow and sustain your business and also keep them happy.

This episode is part 1 of a 4-part book series where I’ll be sharing and discussing advice from my favorite books on entrepreneurship, money & success, and how the advice from these books are helping me make more in my business this year. This episode is called the laws of business success, and the book I’ll be sharing from is called the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. In this episode let’s get into 5 indisputable laws of achieving business success as written in the 48 Laws Of Power.

As I mention from time to time here, generating money from your business is a numbers game. The more targeted traffic you get to your store, the more sales you can expect to see if what you sell is in demand. But how do you answer questions like, how many sales do I need to get in order to make enough money to pay my living expenses? Or, how much money do I need to invest into this product in order to get X in revenue and from that, how much will I profit? To answer these questions, you need to know exactly what your material costs, shipping costs, and cost of fees are from your selling platforms. If you’re looking to quit your job and become a full-time business owner, you have to be able to answer questions like these which will help you set realistic financial goals, see into the future of your business and even predict how much you’ll need to invest until you make enough money to cover your living expenses. Pretty exciting, right? To visualize your success down the line, you need to have all of your numbers organized into something like a spreadsheet with formulas that automatically calculates these figures for you to give you the ability to see into the financial future of your business. And in this episode I’ll be sharing how these formulas can help you be crystal clear about your numbers, and I’ll even be giving you these as a download, so stay tuned till the end of the episode to learn more about how to download my spreadsheet and get access to these formulas. Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/104

When we picture entrepreneurs, we might have this idea that they’re confident, courageous people who carve out their own paths in life, but one of these traits, confidence and courage, are much more necessary for success than that other. In fact, if you were to lean on one of these traits alone, you’d simply never progress toward the business and the life that you want. In this episode, I’m breaking down the difference between confidence and courage and which one is actually needed to accomplish your goals. In fact, it’s the trait that connects all entrepreneurs like you and I and what separates us from those who simply aren’t meant to take the entrepreneurial path. Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/103

There are lots of ideas and opinions around entrepreneurship and building your own business - some that have lots of truth to them, and others that simply don’t. Creatives like you who are looking into building and growing a sustainable business need to be able to discern what’s real when it comes to entrepreneurship. Without this discernment, you’ll give up too soon, head in the wrong direction, or be persuaded by outside voices to stray away from being the business owner of your dreams. In this episode, let’s talk about 5 myths surrounding entrepreneurship and what the real deal is. Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/102

When you’re a business owner, at some point in your journey you might experience someone trying to take advantage of you. In fact, last year I talked about how I got scammed on Etsy in episode 70 where fraudulent buyers would target my digital listings, download them and request an automatic refund from Etsy so they basically got it for free. Thankfully, Etsy has since changed their policy on digital downloads and now you can no longer request a refund on a digital item. This story I’m about to tell you though happened to me a few years back when I was mainly selling original paintings. Someone tried to get their hands on one of my $600 paintings for free, and if I had not already been aware of the red flags that many sellers miss, I could have become a victim of fraud. In this episode, I’ll share what happened, all of the red flags that told me this was a scam, what would have happened if I didn’t know any better, and how to make sure you don’t get scammed yourself because people like this target creators just like you all the time. Show notes: https://freelancetofulltimepodcast.com/101