Coming To Town
Soliciting business is hard enough if you're in any type of sales position, be it retail or corporate, not-for-profit or just plain selling anything for something - foreseeably a profit - however, an artist is selling something slightly less tangible....
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Being an artist and setting up shop for yourself requires far more experience and business savvy than I might've been led to believe. I got the idea to do so while living in Manhattan, but in order to afford to...
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When Allen Kay suggested I become John Klimo's assistant, his rationale was, as he said, "Very few Art Directors can do both." Meaning traditional advertising AND fashion advertising. Maybe that was the case, and by the time I was asked...
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Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic flew its inaugural flight between London Gatwick (LGW) and Newark Airport (EWR) in 1984. Three years later, the airline would be adding another Boeing 747 to its fleet and were planning their first scheduled flights from...
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According to author Malcolm Gladwell, it takes 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field. Working around the clock this only amounts to about a year and a half of one’s life. John Klimo had put in over...
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