When you start seeing tweets you mostly agree with, you’re in an echo chamber. Mess with Twitter’s algo, intentionally seek out contrarian points of view & give them a like if they seem well thought out even if you disagree. Go cross discipline. We don’t grow in a vacuum.
Dear artists,
Curators and collectors are trying to find your work, so PLEASE do yourself a favor and do the following:
1. Have a link in your bio to your available work! No one wants to have to look for hours through your feed to see if they can find a link to a piece or go through every platform searching for you.
2. If you have a Linktree: great — but please update it. Again, having tons of expired or broken links is very confusing and frustrating. Update it and keep it current.
3. Have a webpage. You can do something very simple with AI or with any web-building tool. Something that says who you are, what your practice is like, shares your overall work, and shows your available work. Again, make it easy for a collector to fall in love with you.
4. In your X bio, have something that makes sense (or points to something that makes sense, like a website). If they’re looking at your X profile, chances are something caught their attention or someone recommended you. Let them know who you are as an artist.
5. Please put prices on your pieces! It is very hard for a collector to offer to buy without knowing your price point. They don’t want to go too high, but they definitely don’t want to go too low and offend you. Take the guessing out of it. State your price (and adjust accordingly). If you don’t want to do this on a platform, at least do it on your webpage so collectors can understand your general price range.
6. Have some sort of pricing strategy that you can stand behind. Don’t make it seem like you have completely different pricing depending on which platform the collector finds you on. Do all your pieces have to have the same price? Absolutely not. Is it based on how much time you put into the piece? No. It is based on what you believe the piece is worth. Make it make sense to you, and it will make sense to a collector — but be consistent.
7. And lastly, be active. I don’t mean you have to post 10 times a day or that you even have to have new work. But if a collector sees that you’ve had no activity for over six months, they might assume things have changed and you’re no longer interested in selling. Most collectors want to buy beautiful work, but they also want to support an artist’s journey. If you’re no longer interested in the journey, they might not be either.
Rooting for all of you artists out there! The bear market is tough but there are many people looking for your work! 🫂❤️
universities are about to realize that they had been selling the wrong product for the 150 years. they thought they sold knowledge, then information became free. they pivoted to selling credentials but now credentials are just proxies. in the post-ai era the universities who survive will realize they were always selling 3 things: network, status signaling, and a 4 years of protected time to become an adult.
@punk9059 It does.
Minimum karma requirement to join some subReddits or to start responding in some, or credibility (social aspect). Karma threshold to become a mod.
The crypto sub used to award moons (tokens) based on karma last cycle.
There’s a collection that holds a truly unique place in this ecosystem - often not appreciated enough. The premier female-driven NFT collection @worldofwomenxyz recognised for putting women’s creativity and perspective at the centre of Web3’s story - with men and women equally welcome. This in itself gives provenance. But more importantly, we actually need WoW, in what is still a largely male dominated space. They offer a gateway into Web3 unlike any other. And the art’s pretty good too…$WOWSTR
@chesus@worldofwomenxyz It’s always been a very mixed community- loads of super supportive men and women.
Everyone is welcome.
Would love to see and hear Vi on your show.
@wiimee With you on that sentiment.
I'm rooting for OG collections to make it.
Been thinking about valuation in terms of provenance a lot these days. In the long term, *hopefully* that'll help some of these collections retain value.
@ViPowow Definitely need more activations, partnerships, airdrop inclusions for the community.
That incentivises holding, shows that the community still has a presence and raises its profile in the space.