Today, Market Insider returns from hiatus with a new format and new feature columns.
Formerly a monthly newsletter, Market Insider is now a blog.
These economic times simply demand that Market Insider deliver the business savvy and how-to advice you need, faster and more frequently.
Market Insider is also now an expanded resource, with more marketplace news and tips for fine craft artisans who wholesale to galleries, museum stores and gift shops.
- Familiar features will continue, including the popular Calls for Editorial Submissions and Calls for Contest Entries.
- Watch for new features, too: In a new showcase called Sightings, you'll go behind the scenes of a marketing success, to learn how a fellow artist achieved gold. In Learn and Earn, you'll find links to training seminars and workshops that help artisans make a living. New books about the craft business will be listed in Read.
- Need an item from a past newsletter? Back issues of the old Market Insider monthly newsletter (2007-2008) are preserved for you. Give us a couple weeks, and we'll get them indexed to help you find those great how-to articles on starting a blog, writing a press release, designing your media kit, and much more.
- Go ahead, comment! Tell us about topics of interest to you. We'll try to find experts to answer your questions. If you wish, share your advice for fellow artists. There's only one rule, which should go without saying, but it always must be stated: When you comment, please be constructive not cruel. Market Insider exists to help you sell more work and build your creative business, so let's celebrate the many alternative ways there are to achieve those goals.
- The Fine Print: Market Insider is a publication of The Rosen Group, the producer of the Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft and the publisher of AmericanStyle, a magazine for art collectors and travelers, and NICHE, a trade magazine for retailers of fine craft. See www.AmericanCraft.com. Market Insider is written by Jean Thompson, The Rosen Group's director of circulation, marketing and public relations, with help from contributors and staff. The views expressed in Market Insider are those of the writers and contributors, not of The Rosen Group and its corporate units.
- To contact Market Insider offline, send an e-mail to [email protected] or call 410-889-2933, ext. 218. You know what to do if you want to post a comment to the blog.