National speaker and marketing coach Alyson B. Stanfield will conduct a total of 10 hours, two-day workshop on Amelia Island, Florida at the "Hampton  Historic Harbor Front Inn" located at 19 South 2nd Street, Fernandina Beach - (904) 491-4911.

Professional Artist or  Making the Transtion to Professional Artist.  This Workshop is for You!  This Workshop is not for hobbyists, but for serious artists who want to get serious about promoting and selling their work. If you are willing to making an investment in your career this Workshop is for you! 

In this two-day workshop, Ms. Stanfield will help create an action plan and define your goals for marketing your artistic creations. 

The workshop will include topics and discussions about mailing lists, email secrets, newsletters, creating marketing materials, do's and don'ts, blogs, twitter, and facebook all to help you with shameless selfpromotion. 

You'll learn how to: (1) Introduce yourself as an artist so people want to know more; (2) Nail your artist statement to discover the right words for all of your marketing messages; (3) Expand your mailing list and use it to cultivate collectors; (4) Create marketing materials that outshine the competition; (5) Become a media magnet so buyers come to you; (6) Take advantage of your Web site and blog to build a bigger audience; and much more. 

This workshop will fill up fast and is limited to 50 people. 

Ms. Stanfield is the creator of artbizcoach .com and is the author of  I’d Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion
ISBN 978-0-9742725-8-0, 264 pages printed on 100% recycled paper, Trade Soft Cover, $24.95 U.S., Published by Pentas Press
Publication date: February 3, 2008

About the Book:

I'd Rather Be in the Studio! The Artist's No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion offers practical approaches that help you sell more art and build an art career that lasts. Alyson B. Stanfield, the art-marketing guru behind ArtBizCoach.com, shares self-promotion tools that have enhanced the careers of thousands of artists.  It would be great if there were a precise formula for getting your art into galleries, museums and private collections. But every artist's path is different. That's why I'd Rather Be in the Studio! provides easy-to-follow self-promotion practices that help you find your way at any point in your career. Match Internet marketing strategies with sincere personal skills to take charge of your career.

About the Author:

Alyson B. Stanfield is an artist advocate, workshop leader, and art-marketing consultant who knows all about self-promotion. Labeled an introvert early in life, she has challenged herself many times to come out of her shell in order to lead a rich and rewarding life. And that's what she does with her clients. Alyson has helped thousands of artists develop their careers through her online classes, publications, workshops, and free weekly Art Marketing Action newsletter all available through ArtBizCoach.com.

Alyson used the self-promotion tools in this book to launch ArtBizCoach.com. Prior to that, Alyson counseled artists informally throughout her ten years as a museum curator and educator in the Midwest. She wrote this book for the many talented artists who remain professionally unfulfilled because their work is not seen and not purchased.

Alyson's mission is to empower artists to say goodbye to excuses and hello to success. 

For more information and registration for this workshop, please contact Mikolean Longacre at tmpromark@aol.com or 904-415-3900 or 904-491-8040.  You may also contact the author  for information on her books and blog at alyson@artbizcoach.com or 303.273.5904.