Be alert to signals you need to change course (278)

In this episode of The Art Biz, host Alyson Stanfield makes the case that comfort is the most dangerous place to be in your art business. If you keep doing things the same way, you are bound to miss out on opportunities as things in how we show and sell art are changing so rapidly.

She walks through three signals worth paying attention to:

1. The results signal :: that something familiar has stopped working
2. The joy signal :: that something is messing with your happiness
3. The external signal :: that a moment is emerging and worth paying attention to

She mentions the external signal that Jenny McCarty paid attention to and took her art viral in episode 277.

And the joy signal that moved Ali Cavanaugh to remove her work from 10 of her 11 galleries in episode 189.

Alyson also shares her own recent pivot away from group teaching toward strategic consulting after tuning into the results and joy signals.

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