Susan Fox mentions in a reply to the prior blog post that she’s joined Facebook and it’s creating some connections for her that might be worthwhile. Getting into Facebook has been on my list of things to do for a while.
But I haven’t done it yet. Why not?
Well … I’m a little gunshy, I guess. I joined RedBubble earlier this year to market my images in small, inexpensive formats (cards, prints) and one of the things RB encourages is networking among its artists. So I have a bunch of comments (and probably emails, tho RB doesn’t notify me of this until I go to the website) that have piled up without my having the courtesy to reply. In other words, I’m behaving like a complete social slob.
The issue is TIME. I’m trying to figure out where to get the extra time to hang out and do all this social networking when my days AND evenings are already taken up with painting prep, painting, marketing, website management, accounting, shipping, planning, talking to galleries, talking to clients, keeping up with art magazines and art books, email, workshop prep … plus, to keep my creative energy up, I need to do non-art stuff like read agility magazines and train the dogs. Oh, and I’m the marcom/web person for anything my husband’s business needs as well.
So how the heck do any of you do it? - keep up with social/art networking sites? (…shifts into ‘awaiting enlightenment’ mode…)
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