Robert Genn wrote a list of ten commandments for the professional artist not sure how to price him-or-herself when selling prints.
Robert Genn’s Ten Commandments of Art Pricing

Thou shalt start out cheap.
Thou shalt publish thy prices.
Thou shalt raise thy prices regularly and a little.
Thou shalt not lower thy prices.
Thou shalt not have one price for Sam [...]

There are plenty of ways for musicians to gain notoriety in the mainstream market, or even to widen their audience. For music labels and critics, there is a standard formula for success, and even if they don’t admit it, the three main ingredients of this formula have to be balanced to ensure a band’s full [...]

McMenamin’s White Eagle Saloon on N Russell St (off N Interstate Ave under the I-5/I-405 interchange bridges) is having an open mic and songwriter showcase on February 10th at 7:30pm. Tired of whiny pop wanna-bes on American Idol? See live ones! And actual singers too, by the way. If you’re one of those, I have [...]

TravelPortland.com posted an event notice for the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s one-day contest during their open house on February 7th that pits escritor al escritor, or writer against writer, for the prize of best rat-writer.

Large corporations have gone through intensive training to learn what I am going to teach you in simple terms: any business, especially small business, is an organization of people striving to attain a common goal. If that goal is different for each individual of the organization, the business will fail. The collective nature of business [...]