Ph.d. Student Looking For Artist Entrepreneurs' Opinions

Well! That was fast

I consider myself an artist not an entrepeneur even though I am a self employed, tax paying artist. I told the truth and it turned off the survey.

I realised my mistake and am now locked out

Fastest survey ever LOL

Thank you so much for being willing to help! I would definitely consider you an entrepreneur. If you'd be willing to go back in and try again, you should no longer be locked out. Many thanks.

I found that to be really interesting! Made me think about a few aspects of my work that I hadn't really specifically considered before. Good luck with the project!

Well that was fun and interesting. Not sure you are going to get as much as you hoped for out of the survey, at least my answers on the survey.

Lot of the questions, in my opinion, are not relevant because they simply do not apply to people running an Internet business.

Being an entrepreneur on the Internet today is totally different then being an entrepreneur in a brick and mortar situation. And being an entrepreneur in 1971 up until the Internet became so important was a total different animal again. But I guess you were not thinking of us old fossils that are still doing their entrepreneurial thing after so long! lol

I understood the concept of trying to answer in relationship to where I was putting the most effort in today. But it was not easy to wipe out all of the years and years of knowledge and experience gained from the pre Internet days and in the brick and mortar years.

All of those questions about the touch freely aspects of being in business were and are far more important when a customer walks into a brick and mortar business and you have to stick out your hand and make a good first impression.

That is one of the aspects that I really liked about the survey. It made me stop and think about the differences and the importance of some things related to face to face selling and Internet selling.

Like how important is it to look and act like and actually be an expert when you have to actually met and great your customer and you have to actually be an expert vs how much less important that is on the Internet.

With a huge percentage, probably more than half of net sales there is no first impression. Not one where the person behind the product gets much of a chance to make a first impression of a personal nature.

Good luck with you project and thank you for the opportunity to participate.

I thought they were applicable - especially considering how much information some people share about themselves on social media these days. I play my personal cards very close to the vest, but I have followed (and unfollowed) some companies that were very much personality driven online.

And between LinkedIn and all the other places people can go and learn about your work history and education and such, I think defining yourself as an expert or as being very experienced is definitely relevant. "Googling" someone is a well used verb these days.

I completely agree about the first impression thing. In the context of this survey, I read that to mean the first time they see you or your work represented - website, Resume, FAA page, that kind of first impression. I found the comparison and contrast of online versus traditional selling channels.

Done...

I would bet that 80-85% of the art sold never gets past "I see picture, I like picture, I buy picture".