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Jul 2022
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Understanding the Business of Art with P...

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In this episode of the Artist Business Plan we sit down with Patrick Shanahan, Director of Marketing at Art Storefronts, to discuss the truth behind operating an arts business. Learn about the ways to step up your art career and how to gauge your success when you tune into this lovely episode.

Guest: Patrick is a digital marketing expert with over 15 years experience in how best leverage both traditional and digital marketing to grow art and photography businesses. Combined with the sales and marketing analytics data from over 6500+ customers at Art Storefronts he has unique insights into what is actually working to start, run and grow profitable art business in today's business landscape. 

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Hosted and Executive Produced by James Miille and Alexander Mitow

Executive Producer/Producer : Joshua Guicherit

Written by: Joshua Guicherit, Alexander Mitow, and James Miille

Audio Edited by: Esteban del Sol

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