Art Career

Do you dream of being a full-time artist? This friendly, practical guide shows you how to make your dream a reality, with expert advice on everything from writing a business plan to pricing your work and raising your profile as an artist. Learn how to start taking commissions and ensure your long-term success.

In Art Money Success, Maria tells personal stories of her own business deals, successes, and failures while sharing unconventional wisdom that will explode your art sales. If you are interested in generating more money and success from your art, then this audiobook is for you!

The path to your life's work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life's work, that treasure of immeasurable worth we all long for. It's about the task you were born to do. Through personal experience, compelling case studies, and current research on the mysteries of motivation and talent, Jeff shows listeners how to find their vocations and what to expect along the way.

Originally published in 2016, The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga immediately became the essential resource for those looking to start or maintain a successful career in yoga. Since then, the landscape has changed. Online yoga and social media are now a crucial part of most teachers' repertoires. Yoga teachers also face broad cultural shifts, an evolving environmental crisis, and resulting anxiety among students, all of which bring fresh challenges to their leadership and teaching abilities.

In Being the Guru, Ram Dass turns the teaching inward, examining what happens when responsibility replaces seeking. This recording includes a full biographical narrative, interwoven with talks that explore the transition from student to teacher, from devotion to embodiment.

This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere.

The profession of life coaching is more necessary than ever in this time of pandemic-related uncertainty, the shift (in some cases, permanent) to remote learning and working, and the constant change that accompanies world events. With his bestselling Therapist as Life Coach, Patrick Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in the first and second editions of Becoming a Professional Life Coach, he and Diane S. Menendez covered basic principles and strategies for effective coaching.

Somewhere along the way, we embraced the idea that good leaders should always know everything that’s going on—and have all the answers. That staying in the loop means staying in charge. Yet what if the real measure of leadership isn’t how involved we are, but how well the teams we lead can keep moving forward when we’re not there? After years in the military and then moving into civilian leadership roles, Author Phil Jewell saw leaders struggling with the belief that they had to be involved in every process, every decision, to be successful.

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Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means - and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements "tossed over the wall" by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal!

Art-Write:The Writing Guide for Visual Artists has a single intention: to teach artists how to write about their own artwork. This concise and current career resource is filled with achievable advice on how to write for art promotion and sales. The audiobook offers a step-by-step approach to create a professional artist statement, with thinking and writing exercises to ease the process and develop authentic and clear content.

L’art de la vente est la clé pour obtenir ce que vous voulez dans la vie. Découvrez ici les étapes à suivre, les compétences à développer, et plus encore.

Who can benefit from art therapy? The best thing about art therapy is that it doesn’t ask for you to have the mad skills of Leonardo da Vinci or Picasso to to reap its benefits. Discover the benefits of music therapy, dance therapy, drawing therapy, coloring, art therapy, and neuroscience to improve your life.

In The Art of Small Business Social Media, social media expert Peg Fitzpatrick offers a comprehensive guide tailored specifically for small business owners. Recognizing that social media isn’t a one-size-fits-all tool, Fitzpatrick provides a roadmap for entrepreneurs to navigate the digital landscape effectively. Drawing from her extensive experience working with brands big and small, she demystifies choosing the right platforms, crafting a robust social media plan, and engaging with communities online.

Unlock the secrets to transformational coaching and personal success with The Art of Life Coaching. Whether you're an aspiring coach, a mental health professional, or simply looking to improve your own life, this guide will provide you with the tools and techniques to empower others, enhance emotional well-being, and achieve success in all areas of life.

The Remote Productivity Revolution is a forward-thinking, practical guide designed to help remote professionals master productivity in an AI-powered digital world. As work shifts away from offices and into flexible global environments, this book shows how artificial intelligence, automation, and intelligent collaboration systems are reshaping how we work, communicate, and create. Inside, readers discover how smart workflows replace chaotic multitasking with clear, purposeful systems.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

This book hopes to provide a way to understand and assimilate the various techniques that are employed in the creative process. By providing a combination of theoretical and practical information about the process, the listener will be better equipped to make purposeful decisions when planning and creating their artwork, and also learn about editing photos in Photoshop.

Imagine having at your disposal an easy-to-understand, straightforward process that can transform your sales career overnight. The Art of Professional Sales delivers precisely that—a simple, actionable roadmap to selling like a pro.

Everyone wants to be a writer, and they want to know what they can do to make that dream come true. However, most aspiring writers do not understand how to position themselves so they are ready when presented with an opportunity. They identify themselves as writers but have no writing samples, or their websites and social media talk all about their paintings or music but say nothing of who they are as writers.