Your Messaging & Communication - Part 2
Lesson 7 from: FAST CLASS: Become a Working ArtistLisa Congdon
Your Messaging & Communication - Part 2
Lesson 7 from: FAST CLASS: Become a Working ArtistLisa Congdon
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Embracing Yourself as an Artist
08:13 2Actionable Goals to Achieve Your Dream
06:09 3Setting Intermediate Goals
04:15 4Creating Actionable Tasks
05:29 5Develop Your Business's Personality
02:51 6Your Messaging & Communication - Part 1
01:11 7Your Messaging & Communication - Part 2
03:41 8Successfully Promote Your Work
09:21Lesson Info
Your Messaging & Communication - Part 2
I want to talk a little bit, I want to hear more examples, but I want to talk a little bit about this idea of messaging and part of that is what people experience when they come to your site? Right. But one thing I didn't write up there is also what people experience when they communicate with you. Um you will if you don't already, once you're our career launches and you get things off the ground which you all will, if that's your goal, you will start getting email inquiries every single day. You will get an email inquiries about interviews. You will people, somebody wants to interview you for their blog. Um or is it okay to use these images on my blog cause I want to write about you. I know you're busy, I won't bother to interview you but I'm gonna write about you or they might um want to buy something of yours or commission you to make something or they might want to hire you for an illustration job or license some of your work, they might want um feedback on something, you'd be surp...
rised, they might want advice. So the important thing is no matter why somebody contacts you, the important thing is and I'll talk about this more, especially when we get to the illustration segment because that's if you're an illustrator, you get a lot of emails um is to reply promptly politely and professionally, even if you can't do the interview or you don't want to do the interview, even if you can't take the job, you don't want to do the job. Even if you don't have time, it's really important. Why is that important first of all, why is the prompt thing important? Mhm Darlene. It's respectful Julius saying it's respectful Donny, maybe people have deadlines for the project that they might have deadlines but it shows other people that you value their time also. And I have an auto message on my email which you may have encountered, you've tried to email me that's like I'm really busy but I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can and that's because I'm one of those people if I had time I'd respond right away because I appreciate it when people respond to me, not necessarily right away. I understand that that's hard and email takes over our lives and by prompt they don't necessarily mean the same day but in a reasonable amount of time or days and also letting people know that you appreciate that they've reached out, you may not be able to help them whatever they're asking you to do, might not be a good alignment with what you do or you know some sometimes people want to collaborate but honoring people who take an interest in your work and showing them that you appreciate that is really really really important. If you have the energy you can continue to work on your vision map core values and goal setting charts and I encourage you to do this if you have the energy because it's fresh in your mind and you're probably feeling a certain level of motivation. So even if it's laying in bed tonight, going home, sitting on the couch with a glass of wine, whatever, like finishing up the stuff that you feel like you just got started on while it's fresh. And then I want you to also continue to develop. The keywords for your business is personality and really think about those. What I do sometimes when I'm brainstorming ideas or feelings that I want to emit into the world, I'll make a list of them and pin them somewhere to make them visual and you can remind yourself of that.
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