Caffeine Cast: All the Stupid Mistakes I Made as an Artist & How It Can Help You [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

It’s important to know your self worth especially when pricing things that have taken you a long time to be able to do but the materialistic cost is very low. Included in this episode, Rob shares his experiences and learnings from when he was trying to become a successful artist. KEY TAKEAWAYS I didn’t focus on the commercial aspect of art. I just focused on painting, if I didn’t sell well then I would paint more. I didn’t feel like I could charge much because the cost of producing the product was cheap. I was pricing my work depending on the material costs and I didn’t want people to think I was ripping them off. But what I didn’t factor in was my whole life’s work. I didn’t know what other artists were doing and I didn’t know what was going on in the art scene. I isolated myself away from everyone which made me very introverted. I didn’t leverage other people as an artist. Now as a businessman, I would really take advantage of networking and working with lots of other people. Just getting yourself out there and being seen would’ve made a huge difference. I undervalued myself and didn’t work on my own self-confidence. This lead to me having a very introverted lifestyle which can be a vicious circle. Back then there wasn’t really social media but if there were I would use that to showcase my work. You can be creative in business whether that’s creating a new business model, a new way of marketing or branding and more. So I’ve not lost the arty, creative side of me as I get to exercise it all of the time within business. BEST MOMENTS ‘One of the mistakes I made was not getting it out there enough, hiding behind my work and painting more when I needed to commercialise it more.’ ‘I didn’t honour my life’s work into my prices.’ ‘If things cost a lot, there is at least the perception that they are of high value.’ ‘If I could go back, I would’ve used an agent.’ ‘I’ve learned to enjoy the commercial side of business.’ ‘You’re worth a lot more than what you think you are.’ [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com