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Do You Ever Wonder Why Some Artists Are Wildly Successful And Others Can’t Figure It Out?

One critical reason is they’ve learned the secrets to connections that inspire sales.

Dear Artist,

What if you knew how to demystify the whole buyer/collector connection conundrum?

What if you knew how to permanently delete confusion, intimidation, even defensiveness (you know, that buyer who wants to know how you can dare charge “that much!”)…

…and replace it with confident, strategic communication that has your buyers coming back for more.

Wouldn’t that up your game in 2012 and beyond? Move you into a whole new zone of confidence and sales, sales, sales?

The question becomes, where do you start?

Without spinning your wheels, spending way too much time and effort and money on the wrong strategies. (Strategies? Would you like “best practices” for communicating with collectors before, during, and after a sale?)

Granted, there’s a ton online these days for artists. Only no one has pulled it all together in one place, except for this one-and-only, art career conference.

Introducing the

6th Annual

smARTist Telesummit 2012!

The ONLY Professional Development, Career Conference for Visual Artists!

No traveling because it’s all online–live!

For 7 energizing days you can focus on your art career–no excuses!

January 26/27 – 2 MasterMind Panel Days
January 30 – Feb 3 – 5 days with 10 Keynote Speakers

We make sure you have enough information without the overwhelm of too much information.

We record and transcribe all 13 sessions, so even if you have a day job, you access every session, every conversation, any time that fits your schedule!

No travel expenses. No cold feet waiting to get through that airport security check line. No hotel food. No downtime.

You learn how to expand your influence with collectors and buyers in your toasty warm studio or home, a pad of inspiration by your side.

Exchange artist-in-isolation for artist-as-ally with a host of fellow artists as engaged as you are, all sharing a common experience and exchanging information with each other.

Don’t forget, this opportunity only comes once a year, and only here!

Be sure you have a seat!  Click here for registration details before it fills up.

Conference Highlights
Ask yourself: what would change if you come and learn…

• Which 3 questions are the foundation for all of your communication with collectors and buyers
• How you define and establish your value as an artist
• Which 2 rules for dealing with collectors never fail
• How Artist Groups banded together and reaped 100% of the profits from successful exhibitions
• The advantages and disadvantages of different communication platforms
• How to get sponsored by art companies
• What two Galleries did to increase sales during 2011 (and you can too!)
• When to leverage your artistic integrity, and when to keep quiet
• How to put deals together with big brands
• Ways to exploit traditional media for more PR
• How a physicist, turned Daily Painter, sold 100% of his small works, and then quit his day job
• What is the #1 way to impress collectors and buyers
• How to set up a follow-up system with your audience,, which creates trust and guarantees results
• Why self-belief makes careers, and how to tap into this essential state of mind
• How to set up coordinated, powerful, multifaceted promotional campaigns
• What is the bedrock mindset of a successful artist
• The best way to collect contact information at shows (or how are you going to follow up?)
• How to turn clients into collectors (yes, there’s a diff!)
• Why your collector base is your lifeline in a slow economy, and how to leverage that
• How to assess, manage, and increase your current level of confidence
• What is the hidden cost of giclées to your art career
• How to stop anxiety of rejection or judgment in its tracks
• How the age of your collector affects what you make
• Why editing your artwork is essential to a life-long career
• What simple tool vaporizes any fear and puts you in control before you speak to a collector or buyer
• How to use a confidence-building regime in all areas of your life
• How 2 Artists who had their best sales year ever – and their surprising strategy
• What happens when you fail to control the style and content of a commissioned piece?
• Specific strategies that real life artists used to maintain, or increase, their income during the recession—while working with galleries… and how you can too!
• Plus a whole lot more!

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The good news is: when artists communicate with total confidence to the right buyers and collectors, their sales come along for the ride.

How do I know? Because I’ve been doing just that with you, my tribe of visual artists, for the last six years. I’m living proof it works. (You don’t push past the 4-year drop out rate for other online conferences, i.e., telesummits, without learning everything the hard way – then passing it on!)

And why on earth do I keep doing this year after year?

Because I grew up surrounded by a family, and creative community, of artists and writers in Big Sur, California, I value what you do with such a bone-deep intensity that I will do everything in my power to make sure others value it also.

I love the covenant between your creative fire and the work you breath life into.

I believe that visual artists are the flag bearers, the cultural catalyst for direct manifestation of the creative force, in time and space, that is at the core of our collective spiritual experience in human form.

The more you take responsibility the faster your art career will succeed.

When you make sure your work stands shoulder-to-shoulder with any other professional career in our culture, you expand the impact your art has on humanity.

When you stand behind your art and support it, then your art will support you. It’s just the way it works.

And for any artist who dares to call making art a “career,” the bar for cultural acceptance is immediately raised…

… with these two crucial distinctions, which separate a career from a business.

1. The sense of a higher calling, which embraces business as a tool, but is not limited or defined by business parameters

2. Professional development, where you learn the latest ideas and best strategies for your career—the hallmark of all serious professionals

Now it’s time for you to stand up and be counted—by you:

Want to be sure you have a seat? Register before it fills up.
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Yes, I WANT in before the seats fill up!
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Did you know 33% of attendees are returning smARTist Alumni?

Let me share with you some of what they’ve told me about why they come back again and again.

Proof that taking professional development seriously pays off. Listen to this…

An Artist Speaks Out!
Here I was, taking care of business, answering your questions when this happened… 

Artist Speaks Out! (It’s short, only 4½ mins.)

Look at what happened because of the commitment of this artist:

My advice about smARTist: Take the investment seriously if you signup.

The smARTist Telesummit gave me the information boost I needed to put my art career on the right track.

The results:

• A very fine gallery in Florida contacted me through my social media gate to represent my work and offered me a one-person show.
• I have had several sales through that gallery and through another Gallery in San Antonio, TX
• I have had sales directly from my eNewsletter
• Within a short time of being on Facebook, I gathered 2500 fans and over 4500 friends.
• A huge benefit to all of this is that I have met and had conversations with some of the top artists in the country and can now count them as true friends.

I attribute most of these results to following the advice and catching the enthusiasm of the smARTist presentations, as well as paying close attention to the advice of my friend Alyson Stanfield.

My advice about smARTist: Take the investment seriously if you signup.

Not everything presented will apply directly to you, but the material that does should be studied and, more importantly, acted upon. —Micheal Lynn Adams

I’ve gone to great lengths to get you the best of the best because I understand how crucial it is for you to find the shortest path to success.

Ponder this:

Just one session, with any of my speakers, at a consulting rate of $250 to $350 and up would cost you thousands of dollars.

Every year people tell me that the registration fee is crazy low because this entire 7 days with 10 speakers costs less than most 2-day workshops with one speaker.

Save yourself the time, trouble and money of hunting down all of this information on your own.

Join hundreds of artists: Register for the smARTist Telesummit today.

Yes, I WANT in before the seats fill up!
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What is the smARTist Telesummit?

It’s the ONLINE equivalent to a brick ‘n mortar, professional development conference for visual artists around the world.

It’s all online: you access through a telephone conference line or as a webinar on your computer.

It’s live: you can ask questions of the speakers and Ariane during a live presentation, and throughout the 7 days via an exclusive website just for participants in the conference.

It’s on your schedule: everything is recorded and uploaded to a conference daily calendar, so you miss nothing.

It’s a chance to immerse yourself in a focused learning environment: for 7 days, you and your art get top priority. (that’s priceless!)

Who is this for?

It’s designed for artists who want to learn how to move their art career forward — no excuses. Because they have the specific information and strategies they need to do just that.

It’s designed for emerging and mid-career artists, around the world, working in any visual fine art discipline or craft: 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, multi-media, or digital.

When is it?

This is your chance for an emersion art-career course that will put your success on speed dial for 2012.

January 26/27 – 2 MasterMind Panel Days
January 30 – Feb 3 - 5 days with 10 Keynote Speakers

Where is it?

And the best part? It’s virtual!

You don’t have to spend a small fortune on travel, meals, or a hotel to attend.

This conference is completely online for you to watch, listen, and participate in the presentations and international artist community (Skype it, webinar it, or attend on your regular phone!)

What do I get?

You get so much I can’t summarize here. If you want to see a complete list, click here.

Why should you come?

You’ll be able to quickly implement effective marketing strategies, attract collectors and buyers, and gain a huge advantage over the thousands of other artists scrambling for a foothold.

Once you register, you can take advantage of EVERY opportunity to move your career forward. You won’t have to miss any of the presentations bcause we’ll make sure you can download both a recording and a transcript for free on your exclusive Insider’s Website.

You’ll discover a supportive, safe community of like minded people where you can connect directly with the founder and host, Ariane Goodwin, Ed.D., all 10 speakers, and your fellow artists, who (as I say!) are always your best resource!

How much is it?

You have different payment options:: one pay or two-pay. If you are an alumni, you have a special Lifetime Loyalty Discount (we send you a coupon code in an email. If you didnt’ get it, email jordan@smARTist.com)

Click here to find out your different payment options

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What are the topics at the conference this year? Check this out…








Ariane Goodwin, Ed.D.

…art career coach, author of Writing the Artist Statement: Revealing the True Spirit of Your Work, and creator of this one-and-only, professional development, art career conference will be co-presenting with Eden Maxwell so you can learn even more about how to connect with collectors and communicate with confidence so you get more sales—every time.





Define and Establish Your Value as an Artist with Three Key Questions ~Eden Maxwell

A painter and writer, Eden will help you understand your dharma, the deeper purpose in your artist’s life with two presentations with Ariane, each one a bookend for this conference. You don’t want to miss exploring how to dwell in the wellspring of your art.





The Secret to Artist Blog Success: How to Attract and Connect with Collectors ~Denise Wakeman

As one of the early adapters, Denise Wakeman is nearly a blogging legend. She has mastered all aspects of blogging, from what creates a readership to how to monetize your blog. With her usual flair, Denise will give you her own 3-step formula for creating quality content that builds trust with collectors so they want to do business with you.





Making and Keeping Collectors for a Lifetime ~Jack White

Artist and marketing LEGEND (Ariane is beside herself that he’s coming!), author of countless books for artists, and contributing writer for Professional Artist and FASO, he knows so much about collectors it will make your head spin!





Reclaim Your Confidence ~Deborah Ivanoff, PhD, MSC

Having once faced financial ruin and the loss of her children, Deborah’s learned exactly how to reclaim her own power and connection to her inner authority. Knowing how inspiration delivers confident solutions, Deborah shows you ways to reconnect to your Inner Confidence and Guidance so you can expand your connection to buyers and collectors and increase changes for a sale.





Put deals together: A totally out of the box use of creativity! ~Maria Brophy

An art licensing agent for over a decade, she helped launch her artist husband’s career and now consults on art licensing and deal making, with the intention of helping artists gain confidence in their own business savvy. Maria will show you how to use your creativity for profit and promotion.





Boost Your Art Career: Using Publicity, Promotion and the Power of Self-Belief to Leverage Your Success ~Barney Davey

…your leading authority in fine art print market and author of How to Profit from the Art Print Market: Creating Cash Flow from Original Art is here to show you the insider secrets for exploiting traditional media.





Looking Back: 7 Key Lessons from Dead Artists (Art Career Tips From an Appraiser’s Point of View) ~Corinne Cain

A qualified appraiser for the Southwest Region’s Source List, for the Internal Revenue Service, and for the Resolution Trust Corporation with over 20 years of as curator for the AP Fenderson collection of American Indian art, and member of the prestigious national women’s art group known as Art Table, Corinne has an unusual perspective about what living artists need to know that might never occur to them, since this is information that only comes to light in secondary markets after an artist dies.





Artists Are Making $$ Right Now! ~Lori Woodward

Woodward has written art marketing articles for Fine Art Views’ online newsletter since 2007, and authored the chapter on artists’ websites in Calvin Goodman’s “Art Marketing Handbook for the 21st Century.” As a fine artist, she has sold her artwork since 1996 through a variety of venues, including commercial galleries in Maine, Cape Cod, and Tucson Arizona. An avid researcher, she has conduced dozens of interviews to get the latest scoop from artists and gallery owners on what’s working right now to bring in the money.





Unforgettable: 6 Actions to Guarantee Collectors Remember You ~Alyson Stanfield

…understands the value of building and maintaining strong relationships. As founder of ArtBizCoach.com and ArtBizBlog.com, and the author if I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion, Alyson will make sure you learn the No.1 way to impress collectors and create a trusted system that guarantees follow-up (the secret to all successful relationships).

Click here to Register before we’re full, and secure your spot.

With all these amazing people ready to connect with you for 7 days, all you need is to register…

… because this will put your career first, exactly where it needs to be.

Look at what happened when these artists made that commitment to put their careers first, then kept this promise to themselves and their art.

This is professional training from the best…

Isn’t it amazing how fast a year can fly by? This is my 2nd year with smARTist.

And here I am again, as a professional, developing another intention, another goal. Ready for another year.

Simple as that.

Coming to the conference is a serious commitment that I hold myself accountable to. Any extra time spent with coaching, questions & answers, or just revisiting the presentation topics is well spent.

This is professional training from the best and I can’t think of a better way to start the New Year! —Jen Barbati

Enriching, stimulating and well organized…

The first thing I want to do is THANK YOU, Ariane, for this extraordinary week; so enriching, stimulating and well organized!

I do feel sorry it is already over!

The forum was a new thing for me, a bit awkward at first, but I am enjoying the discussions and how it introduces us to each other in a casual way—a great way to network, as Jane put it.

Thank you for keeping all of this up for a while, as it will be great support and fun for everyone, I am sure—as will your 15-week, follow-up program. As I was listening to the speakers, I started to a sketch a plan for 1 year, 2 years and 5, which I will define more next week.

So merci beaucoup for your energy, and the time it took to bring it all together. (Do you hear a French accent here?) —Louise Jalbert

Yes, I WANT in before the seats fill up!
Click Here To Register

The artists, who come year after year, use the smARTist conference to achieve what Oliver Wendell Holmes has immortalized:

A human mind, once stretched to a new idea,
never returns to its former dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Isn’t it time you stretched your art career into dimensions of greater success? You can. Click here to register and save your spot!

Here’s how we’ve set up this LIVE conference:

This event was designed exclusively with artists in mind.

1. You can attend live from around the world. The speakers give their presentations in real time via your phone (even Skype!), or on a webinar on your computer. You can listen and watch their presentations, even ask them questions and get an answer right then!

After you register, we’ll send you a link to a conference calendar where you can access information for every session, even set the time for your time zone.

Once it starts, all you have to do is go online to a web page, type in the information on the calendar, and there you are! It’s the virtual equivalent of walking into a room at a live conference and sitting down!

Oh, and you can listen on your iPad or iPhone too!

2. You can interact live with the speakers. First we have two MasterMind Panel Days devoted to your questions (which you can submit after you register) that kick off the week! Your questions get a response from 5 different panelists, giving you a 360 degree perspective you can’t get anywhere else.

Then, just like a brick ‘n mortar conference, the individual speaker presentations last an hour, with a chance for Q&A right then.

And any question that doesn’t get answered right away, we’ll scoot over to a speaker for you and post their response right on the private smARTist community forum.

3. You can listen after the fact. We can accommodate your busy life. Even if you work full time, you can still attend (AND you can begin applying what you’ll discover immediately), because each session is recorded and uploaded within 24 hrs on your exclusive “Inside the smARTist Telesummit” calendar.

And transcripts will be available for your in-depth review as fast as our artist transcriber can knock ‘em out!

4. You can have lively exchanges with your fellow artists. Creating relationships with other artists is a big deal. So we’ve set up an exclusive “Inside the smARTist Telesummit”  forum—available ONLY to event participants.

Ariane goes out of her way to facilitate an exciting community environment on the Forum that is also supportive and safe.

Every year, as the conference draws to a close, there’s a collective cry that goes up from this smARTist Community forum where artists have been connecting, swapping stories and resources, and discovering what it feels like to not go it alone!

5. You don’t have to stop learning at the end of the 7 days. First, there’s Ariane’s special, “12-Week Follow-up Newsletter,” where she reviews one conference session per week with simple action steps you can take right then.

There’s also a two-week, group coaching option where Ariane will work with you live, answer questions and help you work out strategies from the conference you’d like to implement.

Then, there are smARTist Telesummit “support groups” that participating artists start during the conference and keep going long afterward.

And, as if this wasn’t already enough, here’s the icing to go with your cake.

Note: Every participant receives all these bonuses.

• BONUS #1Your “Stay-on-Track” Workbook (a $114 value)

  In previous conferences, I only offered this for the Platinum level participants. Because I kept hearing how helpful it was, I realized that everyone who registers needs these worksheets so you can organize the material for your specific art-career needs right out of the gate.

  With a doctorate in creativity and human development, I understand the importance of designing programs that are developmentally organized for right-brained, creative professionals.

  Your “Stay-on-Track” Workbook comes in 3 sections:

  • Part 1: Assess Your Art Career
    Shows you how to identify the holes in your art career, so you can match up ideas, from each expert presentation, to fill in those holes, then…
  • Part 2: Set Your Intentions
    Gives you ways to clarify intentions and specific outcomes connected to each idea so you can…
  • Part 3: Take Action
    Identify which project is most vital to your art-career, and create a simple, step-by-step action plan with clear deadlines

  At the end, you will have a long-term blueprint for getting all future projects off the ground and flying—no excuses.

Would you like to be as confident as Lanie Frick, knowing for sure that you are riding in the right direction too?

Click here to Register and spend 7 days building your art career!

And then get the rest of these goodies too!

• BONUS #2 A 15-Week Follow-up Program (a $495 value)

  Making sure you have the right information is only half my job: helping you take action is the other half.

  One week after the conference, I will send you the first of 15 follow-up newsletters to your inbox—one a week for 15 weeks, exactly the number of sessions in the conference.

  This Follow-up Program gives you a systematized way to organize, and to learn, all the smARTist material you will have heard over the 7-days.

  Each newsletter makes sure you:

  • “Fan the Flames”—with a summary of one session
  • “Catch Fire”—with a specific action step, or two, so you can experience immediate success
  • “Feast Your Eyes”—on a piece of artwork selected from this year’s participants (maybe one of yours!)

• BONUS #3 Access to art career coach Ariane Goodwin, Ed.D.  (up to $1057 value)

  My time is incredibly committed these days, and my private coaching practice is full, but I’m all yours for the week of, and the week after, the conference.

  Besides my presence during three of the speaker’s presentations this year, where the speaker and I will both be available for questions, you will have my undivided attention on our exclusive community forum, as well as during the group coaching sessions I hold the week after the conference is over.

  This is your chance to get a taste of what one of my private coaching clients described as this…

  
  
  “Here is what I know I got from working with you, Ariane. Better focus on what I want, less overwhelm, more confidence and alignment with my purpose. I’m not afraid to be vulnerable and trust my intuition more. Lessons from you keep percolating, but these are the most obvious…Thank you.” ~Jeanne Bessette

• BONUS #4 A Lifetime Discount to all future smARTist® Telesummits

  Loyalty is a value that’s high on my list. When you register for the 2012 Telesummit, you will be automatically entered into my smARTist Alumni Discount Program – for all future conferences.

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Abundance is scooped from abundance
and still more Abundance remains.

-The Upanishad

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This abundance of Art Career Materials & Bonus Goodies is waving at you—YahOO, over here!—waiting for you to pick them up. Just…Click here to save a spot before it fills up.

And remember, registered seats are limited.

Because I am determined to keep a high quality of interaction between you and the speakers, 500 is the maximum that my small, loyal staff can handle and still maintain the depth and richness of connection that I value so much.

I’m not big on statistics, and numbers usually make my toes curl, however, going into this fifth year, I discovered that I now have a total of 42 past and present keynote speakers whose combined lists total over 250,000. (Yup, made me blink twice too.)

Not to mention the hundreds of art organizations that hear about us, with thousands of members.

Once the seats are filled, we’ll set up a first-come, first-serve “wait list.”

So, if getting the live juice is what helps motivate and inspire you to create lasting change for your art career, waiting until the last minute is probably not your best option.

smARTist® Telesummit 2012 What’s Included…
ATTEND 7 DAYS with LIVE ACCESS to 10 LEADING ART CAREER AUTHORITIES and SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS
COME TO 2 MASTER-MIND PANEL DAYS with the Speakers
LISTEN to 10 KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS from PRACTICAL to INSPIRATIONAL
DOWNLOAD and KEEP all 10 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS’ (PDF) HANDOUTS
LEARN ANY TIME with ACCESS to OUR 24/7 ONLINE (MP3) AUDIO Have a day job? Missed a live presentation? It’s all recorded so you miss nothing.
LEARN with OUR ALTERNATE WEBCAST ACCESS
ACCESS our PRIVATE WEBSITE— ONLY for REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS A Vision Questionnaire, Event Calendar, Speaker Recommended Books Page, Alumni Lounge, Participants Profiles & Artwork, Community, Stay-on-Track Program
CONNECT and CONTRIBUTE in the smARTist® community NOTE from Ariane: Each year, discussions in the forum blow me away. Artists share freely and openly, everything from real-life experiences, information, and techniques, to resources. It is a lively, exciting exchange of information between like-minded artists in the spirit of cooperation and contribution, beyond the speakers, where I mine for gold. I promise, you will too.

What would it be like, in 2012, to start the year with people who want the best for you and your art? To have the same “sense of belonging” that Tom Hlas speaks about?

Register below and come be part of Tom’s “sense of belonging” PLUS all the up-to-date marketing and business strategies you need to accelerate your career in 2012!

 

Your Investment Is Protected by My
Money-Back Guarantee

I’m so confident that if you actively participate and apply the tools and methods provided by these art career experts, you’ll be delighted with the results. But I also understand this is a significant investment, and I want you to have peace of mind.

If you decide the smARTist Telesummit 2011 isn’t what you expected, email me by Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2012, and let me know where we fell short and I’ll return 100% of your investment.

If you learn just one strategy that will increase your art marketing success, the investment in your professional development will have paid for itself many times over.

 

 

Rena’s enthusiasm completely captures my telesummit spirit for this is my season. (luv her exclamation points!)

I call it the “telesummit season,” my favorite time of year where I can’t wait to share what I’ve learned with you since last January.

And I’m thrilled with my speakers. They have been warm and witty and wise as we’ve worked to put together a program that will give you that extra boost you so deserve.

It’s a deep honor each year to have this chance to serve you directly. Nothing is more important than helping you inspire this precious world of ours with your art.

I invite you to join me, and your peers, and click below to reserve your seat for the 2012 smARTist Telesummit.

 

Wishing you a heartfelt and wise decision,