Yep, it’s true – after months of waiting, the doors to the Thriving Artists Project are about to open again in one week.
Finally, you’ll be able to get access to:
- weekly interviews with thriving artists
- weekly lessons that demystify marketing and business (and make it fun!) and deprogram you of the “starving artist” mindset
- the members forum, where current members connect with me and each other, get support and encouragement, even create challenges to push everyone forward!
- monthly live Q&As and webinars (including NEW seminars with experts on a variety of topics to help you make more money from your art)
- special bonuses from several partners
- discounts on One-on-One coaching/consulting and group coaching masterminds with me
Membership will be by subscription, $27/month, and the doors will only be open for 72 hours. BUT, I’ll be holding a pre-sale for advance notice subscribers starting on Friday, and you’ll be able to buy 3, 6 or 12 months for a super-discount rate.
You gotta be on the advance list to get in on the pre-sale, so sign up below if you haven’t already.
Plus, two lucky people will actually win a year-long membership!
There are two ways you can win. Here’s the deal:
How to Win: Way 1
Tell everyone about tTAP!
Use Twitter, email and/or your own blog. For each of the following, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win:
- Tweet about the Thriving Artists Project! Send people to the TAP site by including this URL http://bit.ly/g3QnvM and the hashtag #wintap in your tweet. You’ll earn 1 entry for each tweet, up to 6 tweets per day. (One Twitter account only, please. I don’t want any spam here.) Some possible tweets:
I’m deprogramming myself of the starving artist mindset, & you can too! Thriving Artists Project http://bit.ly/g3QnvM #wintap
“Starving” & “artist” do NOT have to go together. Learn how: Thriving Artists Project http://bit.ly/g3QnvM #wintap
I’m learning to THRIVE with the Thriving Artists Project. Inspiring & FUN! Join me! http://bit.ly/g3QnvM
#wintap
Finally, the tools & inspiration I need to THRIVE as an artist! Thriving Artists Project http://bit.ly/g3QnvM #wintap
Connect with other artists & learn to THRIVE with the Thriving Artists Project http://bit.ly/g3QnvM #wintap
AND/OR
- Tweet about this post, using the URL http://bit.ly/dSEyTr and the hashtag #wintap in your tweet. You’ll earn 1 entry for each tweet, up to 6 tweets per day. (One Twitter account only, please.) Some possible tweets:
Want to win the Thriving Artists Project for FREE? Here’s how: http://bit.ly/dSEyTr #wintap
I entered to win the Thriving Artists Project and you can too – it’s easy! http://bit.ly/dSEyTr #wintap
Learn to thrive from your art – win the Thriving Artists Project http://bit.ly/dSEyTr #wintap
If you do tweet multiple times a day, be sure to mix your tweets up.
- Email your list about the Thriving Artists Project
Your email must include one or both of the URLs above, and must mention this contest. Your email will earn you 10 entries to win.
Make sure to forward me the email – send it to melissa (at) livingacreativelife (dot) com
- Write a blog post about the Thriving Artists Project
Again, your post must include one or both of the URLs above, and must mention this contest. Each blog post will earn you 10 entries to win.
Make sure to email a link to the post to me at melissa (at) livingacreativelife (dot) com
How to Win: Way 2
Tell me why you think you should win.
Just leave a comment below, telling me:
- why you want membership in the Thriving Artists Project
- what you hope to get from it
- and why my panel of partial judges should pick you as the winner
My panel of partial judges and I will pick one lucky commenter to win a year-long membership in tTAP.
That’s it!
Easy, breezy. In the meantime, to get in on the pre-sale (starting Friday!) be sure to sign up on the advance notice list if you’re not already on it. I’ve even included a form below to make it easy for you (I’m nice that way).
Looking forward to reading your comments, tweets, blog posts and emails, and good luck!
xo,
Melissa
fabulous, I’m drafting some blog posts tonite… I’m in!
I would love to win t TAP! I feel completely lost when it comes to the business side of art. I feel I am finally at a place where I can promote myself, but I don’t know what to do. I need help!
Consider yourself entered, Kirsten!
Most artists feel lost when it comes to the business side of things. I’m on a mission to help!
Love your paintings, btw (esp. your cat portrait! :))
The winner will be very lucky. I’m honored to be a part of ttap.
I think it is really important to have a community of artists who are focused on the business side and looking for new ways to support our work. I would hope to contribute my experience over the years and get new ideas for how to deal with all the new channels available to us. We’re stronger in community!
GOSH! I almost missed the deadline but thanks to Melissa and signing up for emails, I made it! Thanks so much. I’m a bit behind in response do to life changing events so as you can see, I need H-E-L-P in finding out how to be more creative in finding a way to make money at what I love to do most…ART!
@Janet and @Christine, thanks for commenting! Don’t forget to tweet, too, to get more entries to win. 🙂
I am submitting to win. I should win because:
1. Clearly I need help since I waited till literally the last possible minute to enter.
2. I have a large base of artists who listen to me and I would be willing to tell them about this site
3. I have have run or worked in arts organizations that have budgets from 300k to 3million.
4. I’m a nice guy
5. I’ve been a performer, choreographer, producer, administrator, educator, arts retail seller, etc.
I am a grateful member of this community of artists. It’s turning my life around. Little steps and big chunks of information are helping me sift through my own self image as an artist/businessperson as I ferret out the old non-functional ways of behaving.
I’m so glad to have you, Dena! And so happy to know tTAP is making a difference. 🙂
OK your last e-mail has guilted me into this 🙂
•why you want membership in the Thriving Artists Project
Well what starving artist wouldn’t want to be thriving instead?
•what you hope to get from it
insight as to how to better use my talents to make money as I am currently incredibly broke and underpaid and wondering if I really should be a singer when I grow up.
•and why my panel of partial judges should pick you as the winner
Because I ROCK (or perhaps out of pity and to keep me off the streets.) There you go. 😉 ~Julie
I would love a membership in the Thriving Artists Project because I think community is one thing I’m missing from finally pushing my business forward instead of sitting still. I find myself getting so overwhelmed and unfocused when I have no one to turn to for help. I also would like a membership because I currently am digging myself out of the stupid business debt I created for myself by flailing and throwing money at things thinking it would make everything better. I want and need help but don’t want to create more debt to pay for it.
I hope to get some guidance into making a solid plan and helping myself get unstuck. I also hope to reduce the overwhelm by having a place I can go to to yell HELP!!
I should be picked as the winner because I KNOW with a lot of hard FOCUSED work that I can finally move forward into being the thriving artist I want to be!
I deserve to win because I am giving an enormous amount of energy to the mixed media community and I want to learn how to THRIVE in the process. 🙂
Effy! So great to see you here! I LOOOOOVE your blog and the cool community you’ve got going! 🙂
@David,
@Julie,
@Giesla,
Consider yourselves entered!
(And just because you were awesome enough to enter, you’re going to get a little prezzie, even if you don’t win. It pays to pay attention. :))
I don’t know if I am too late. The email you sent ended up in spam. ::
I was thinking about this site earlier today and how I really believe in it. One of my affirmations is “I am a thriving artist.”
I would love to receive such a generous gift of a one yr. membership to tTap. For me this would be the only way to join.
Thank you for the chance.:)
will go tweet too.
Thanks for entering, Dana! Everyone who comments here will get a special gift, whether or not you win the free membership, so watch your mailbox! 🙂
I want to win a free membership as a gift for a very dear friend of mine who would just be as pleased as punch to get it. She is a college student on very tight funds. She going through some major life changes, and her biggest goal is to turn her art hobby into a sustainable business when she graduates. She is crazy talented, and I want to see her succeed. 😀
Thank you Vanesa! I was so happy to receive your phone call that you won and gifted me this one-year membership! I am excited to be able to have these resources at my fingertips and I am excited to learn as much as possible from this!
*hugs!!!!*
-Most sincerely,
Emily Rose
Yay Emily Rose! My thanks to Vanesa for gifting you. So glad to have you!
This would so work with my current thoughts and dreams of opening my own store offering stamping class and opening doors for people to cherish their memories!
Thanks @Vas and @Rose.
Keep those comments coming! You’ve still got another day or two to enter. 🙂
*I’d love to get into the Thriving Artists Project because it would be so amazing to be part of the community of various artists who are actually out there & doing their thing. I’ve long had this secret little seed inside me, just itching to unfurl into the light of day & grow into a strong and thriving creative being.
*My hope is that being part of the Thriving Artists Project community would help me learn the marketing & business side of things more & thus give me ways to add the art that I’m itching to create to what I’m now doing & that the two together could (finally!) help me make the leap from this creativity & soul-crushing day job I slog off to each and every weeekday.
*I should be chosen for this bit because I’ve already got the creativity, I’ve already put myself out there in other ways, and I’m willing to do the work…. as of now, I just don’t know where to start & what to do. This could help by giving me the direction (and the nudge ;-))
i just realized i didn’t actually answer your questions… so
* why you want membership in the Thriving Artists Project–I REALLY want to learn to be a THRIVING ARTIST. I want to be able to use what I love and know in heart that I am, an artist, to provide financial stability to our family. I don’t want to put my energy into something that I don’t love. I am a mom and currently don’t work, (outside of the home and for no pay anyway :))and it is really important to me to show my children that you can live your dream. Plus, there is that wanting to be able to take care of myself.
* what you hope to get from it-knowledge, tools, a real way to to THRIVE as an artist!
* and why my panel of partial judges should pick you as the winner
I am committed, excited, determined. To be a THRIVING artist has been something that has been in me for a long time. In some way, shape, or form I believe it can be. Plus, if (no, when) I THRIVE financially, I will pay it forward to someone who is right where I am now. 🙂
thank you. :)fingers crossed
@Angel
@Dana
Thanks for your entries! And watch your mailboxes for a little giftie, whether or not you win. 🙂
This is vital work…
right brain yin energy integrating into a world too dominated by left brain yang….
artists thriving as cherished and vital members of the community!
Exactly! Well put, Dainuri! 🙂
I just want to say that I have benefitted HUGELY from Melissa’s expertise with marketing, website design and organization and technology and I hope more people can benefit from her incredible knowledge and ability and willingness to share it!
Thanks Susan! It’s been fun working with you! 🙂