Today I’m sitting at my desk sipping tea while outside it is snowing and the sky here in Berlin almost has the same color as the white streets and rooftops. The perfect day to write a post bout Christmas presents :-)

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I’d rather be in the Studio – from 24$

The art marketing book for artists who want to sell more art by art biz coach Alyson B Stanfield. ‘I’d Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion‘ offers practical advice to help them sell more art and build an art career that lasts.

Buy it before Dec 18 and get 5 bonus goodies (special reports):

• Artist Statements: What’s the Big Deal with Something So Small?

• Unbelievably Dumb Mistakes Artists Make When Presenting Themselves

• Receive Feedback Gracefully to be a Better Artist

• 3-page Checklist for Promoting Your Exhibits & Events

• After the Sale: What do you do next?

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Creating your 2011 Goddess Year Workbook & Planner – 9.95$

The popular Creating your Goddess Year Workbook & Planner by Goddess Leonie is back for 2011… and this time, it’s got a Calendar included!

It’s the best tool to help make 2011 an absolutely incredible year! It’s filled with 72 pages of worksheets & a printable calendar to help dream, manifest, set intentions, plan & cultivate an amazing new year. 2010 has been a big year. In this workbook, the year will be given thanks for, celebrated, healed and given closure. Then the workbook will help getting clarity on what the goals for 2011 are going to be. What will be created during it and how to make it happen.

The workbook is handwritten & rainbow illustrated… perfect to print out, soak up the rainbow colours of, and make 2011 a gorgeous year.

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Blast Off Online Class – 97$

The Blast Off class by art biz coach Alyson B. Stanfield is a terrific blend of motivation, coaching, and practical business tools creatives can use to give their art career a big boost and take it to a new level. . It will be held January 5-28, 2011

In this class, they will . . .

• Decide to go for it
• Define success for themselves
• Commit to their vision
• Identify and personalize strategies
• Create good habits
• Release what they don’t love
• Set boundaries
• Commit to accepting responsibility for their life
• Capture their Vision and plan to enact it
• Identify tasks they can hire out (or let go of)
• Complete a challenging (but workable) plan for the entire year

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Marketing for Makers eCourse – 397$

The Marketing for Makers e-course by Megan Auman is designed to teach creative entrepreneurs the best methods to market their business to increase traffic and sales.  Not only that, but this course is designed specifically to help makers, designers, and crafters choose the right marketing strategies and develop a marketing plan they can actually stick to.

The Marketing for Makers e-course is for creatives if…

• They want to increase traffic (and sales) in their online shop. (Regardless of whether that shop is through Etsy, Big Cartel, their own e-commerce site, or some other solution.)
• They’d like to see their products featured in more blogs and magazines. (And perhaps a few newspapers and TV news broadcasts as well.)
• They want to get their products in more stores and galleries.
• They want to maximize their reach through blogs and social media.
• And they want to build a strong and consistent brand identity that pulls it all together.

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The DIY Creative Web Biz Kit – 77€ (about 100$)

For artists, crafters, photographers, designers, musicians, cooks, clowns and other creative entrepreneurs who would love to finally get a professional website with their own domain name but lack the money to hire an expensive web designer and  the technical skills to do it themselves. With the Creative Web Biz Kit they can start building an online biz around their talents and gifts and start making a living while doing what they love, what they care for and what is important to them!

It  includes a basic WordPress  set-up (a state of the art website software) and an e-course that will teach them to design and customize the new website to their own liking and make changes to the site any time they’d like, in any way they’d like. This way they are not dependent on a designer and are then able to grow the site into the foundation of their creative online biz.

If they are passionate about what they do and  are willing to make it happen no matter what, this might just be the start to earning a living with doing what they love!

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That’s it! I think these are great gifts for any creative entrepreneur. If you know any others, please let us know in the comments!

Creative Web Biz - the art of creating an online business

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So you are an artist, crafter, designer, cook , clown or some other type of creative entrepreneur and started building your online biz. You got your e-commerce enabled website/ blog, you have a Facebook fan page and you are now wondering what else you can do to power up your marketing.

Well, Laura Bray of Katydiddy wrote a new ebook to introduce you to electronic newsletters or ezines, one of the best and least expensive marketing tools out there today. Laura is an artist with an MBA. She loves to share business and marketing advice with other artists and crafters so that they can make money doing what they love.

The Easy Ezines Ebook is 27 pages and contains 9 chapters that walk you through all the necessary steps to create your very first professional newsletter. Each chapter ends with an assignment or action step to make things easy for you.

Lesson One: Choosing a Service
Lesson Two: Getting Focused
Lesson Three: Subscribers
Lesson Four: Auto Forms and Subject Lines
Lesson Five: The Introduction
Lesson Six: The Article
Lesson Seven: Monetizing Your Ezine Part One
Lesson Eight: Monetizing Your Ezine Part Two
Lesson Nine: Scheduling Your Ezine

Sounds good right? And you get all this for just 15$.

So go on, sign up to Aweber (the newslwetter service that I use and love), follow the advice Laura gives you in this wonderful ebook and start your very own Ezine. It will definitely get you more customers/clients and help you sell your stuff, be it art, music or any other kind of creation or creative service!

And if you are interested in more ebooks that will help you with your creative web biz, you will also want to check out my earlier post on Business Ebooks & Audios for Creative Entrepreneurs.

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p.s. don’t forget to sign up for our very own Creative Web Biz newsletter to get notified of updates and special offers :-)

Creative Web Biz - the art of creating an online business

How to Conquer Marketing and Make a Living With Your Art

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A one hour audio interview with Naomi Dunford  and Megan Morris about art, marketing and running an ittybiz. Very important things that you can do to help the right people find you, like you, and want to buy from you.

• Hear how you can do what YOU want in you art, and still make money;
• Hear why artists don’t need a USP (lucky you!);
• Hear why custom furniture is the place to look for marketing advice;
• Advice on ways to get more eyeballs on your stuff;
• Hear why high-end art is the way to go if you hate marketing;
• Hear how you might be able to make more money by taking donations instead of selling your art straight-trade

How to Conquer Marketing & Make A Living With Your Art by Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz.com

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10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives

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Freelancers and people in creative professions  are often very good at the work they do, but, because they have little insight into how to promote their work, find themselves with little recognition, few sales and very few decent clients. Not getting the recognition and the clients you deserve can be frustrating, especially when you know you need to promote yourself and your work, but just lack the tools and the know-how to do so effectively.

10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives by Alex Mathers of Red Lemon Club

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I’d rather be in the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion

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If  your ready to get past the excuses you’ve been making for your lack of success…if you’re ready to get out of the studio and take charge…this book will offer practical advice to help you sell more art and build an art career that lasts.

This book is the result of more than a decade consulting with artists. Alyson Stanfield wrote it for every artist who wants more recognition. Yes, you may have heard of some of this before, but you have never had all of this information in a single resource. I promise.

I’d rather be in the Studio by Alyson B. Stanfield of ArtBizBlog

Tip: also check out the other ebooks by Alyson

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Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters

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In order to create the financial success you desire, you have to find multiple ways to bring in income. You should have a good combination of active and passive income. Read this ebook and you’ll have the beginning of a basic plan and a focus on the areas you need to work on in order to achieve success in your business and make a living doing what you really love.

Multiple Streams of Income: A Guide to Creating Income for Artists and Crafters by Laura Bray of  KatyDiddy

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Creative Web Biz - the art of creating an online business