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A Thank You can be Good for Business
I was invited as a guest onto a podcast yesterday and of course, I said yes. If I have learned anything over the years, it's that anytime...
Bogdan Mihai
Oct 3, 20243 min read
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Five Revenue Streams for My Art Business
I have finally pulled the trigger and joined up with the Professional Artists Association and their individualized coaching program. This...
John Bishop
Sep 18, 20245 min read
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What is an Artist Anyway?
Today I want to talk a bit about some of the coursework we’re preparing for Aripa Arte, our new nonprofit created to help Romanian...
John Bishop
Sep 4, 20243 min read
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6 Needs My Art Fulfills
I was journaling this morning, and I ran across an exercise I did after reading about sales in business. Sales is not something I feel...
John Bishop
Aug 22, 20244 min read
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Working with Your Spouse
Bogdan and I have been together for 23 years now, and one of the most remarkable things about our lives together has been that for almost...
John Bishop
Jul 25, 20243 min read
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Summer Slump
I'm not sure if this is an appropriate topic for a blog entry, but I'm going to write about it anyway. The summers can really be a...
John Bishop
Jul 4, 20243 min read
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We're Changing Again
I can't believe I've been so bad about posting regularly, but in my defense, a LOT has been going on. I don't know why it hasn't dawned...
John Bishop
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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Road Trip Romania
We just got in more copies of our book Road Trip Romania. Bogdan and compiled the manuscript years ago for a publisher who opted not to...
John Bishop
Mar 15, 20241 min read
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Romanian Art Scene
I want to start off saying how tentative I am when writing about this topic. I feel that I am so uneducated about the current state of...
John Bishop
Jan 23, 20245 min read
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Is the New Year Trying to Kill Me?
Leave it to Murphy's Law which states that if anything at all can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. We started the new...
John Bishop
Jan 16, 20245 min read
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Goals and Objectives? Again?
The new year has come, and the parties are over. The tree and tinsel have been stored away, and the lights have come down in the...
John Bishop
Jan 8, 20246 min read
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Collecting Art: An Artist's Perspective
This is a big week for us. Not only is it the start of a brand new year, but it's also the week that we have a special event in our...
John Bishop
Jan 1, 20246 min read
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Nonprofit: A Startup with a Soul
Have you heard the old saying that, if you want something done, assign it to a really busy person? I'm hoping that's true. Somehow, in...
John Bishop
Feb 6, 20236 min read
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Goals Retreat... Done
We are literally just back from our annual goals and objectives retreat, and this year it went far more smoothly than I would have...
John Bishop
Jan 19, 20237 min read
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Another New Year's Resolution...
One of my several New Year's Resolutions, a bizarre goal setting practice that I seem to be willing to fail at year after year, is to be...
John Bishop
Jan 5, 20237 min read
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Day 20 in Romania
According to my phone, we are on day 20 of our trip to Romania, and we still have 5 more days to go. This seemed like a great time to...
John Bishop
Sep 2, 20226 min read
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Jet Lagged but Happy
We arrived here in Romania two days ago, and I have to admit, I'm still really trashed with jet lag. We're staying with Bogdan's mother...
John Bishop
Aug 18, 20224 min read
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Romania: It's Happening
Just want to give you guys an update on the Romania experiment. We leave in a week, and will fly to Istanbul, then on to Bucharest. We'll...
John Bishop
Aug 7, 20226 min read
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Expanding Our Art Empire
We’ve begun. If you’ve been following this blog at all, you’ll remember that Bogdan and I have been trying to find our way since my...
John Bishop
Jul 28, 20225 min read
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10 Things We Need in an Art Studio
Today I would like to talk a bit about the 10 things we need from an art studio space to move our art business to the next level. This...
John Bishop
Jul 8, 20226 min read
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