I recently joined a critique group for a writing project I’ve been working on. The premise is pretty simple. Each person in the group submits a piece of writing, and then everyone else offers a written critique before we meet over Zoom to discuss. One morning a few days before our last meet-up, I opened …
You’re not alone! At the risk of sounding like a Valley Girl turned Luddite, I’m totally over the Internet these days. Ok, that’s not really an accurate statement. I’m over most of the Internet. I still love hanging out in the Artists & Profit Makers forums and I’ve been listening to more podcasts lately. (If you know …
I’m really leaning into the whole January situation, and I spent my weekend alternating between reading and baking. First, I finished off Rachel Slade’s Making It in America (there’s a review on my blog) and then started on Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld, which is about how algorithms have flattened culture. You know I love to dunk on algorithmic feeds like …
If I had a dollar for every time an artist or maker told me that they rarely email their list because they “don’t want to bother people,” well, I’d have a lot of dollars. But today, I want to flip this idea on its head. Because it turns out, when you don’t email your list, …
And Why Email Marketing is Better! Last year, a friend of mine, who runs a business but is not an artist or maker, started sharing talk she was seeing that Instagram was going to be overrun with shopping posts. The logic was that since you can shop through IG (enabled by platforms like Shopify) Instagram …