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To Those Who Would Be Artists: Beware Of The Geeks

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Still from a Dave Emmons* ad on youtube

 

I copy and pasted this instead of linking to it, because right under it on the website (Fine Art Views dot com) was an ad to keep you clicking: 

TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE ARTISTS: BEWARE OF THE GEEKS

12/28/2019 1:26:35 PM by Clint Watson
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Topics: art and psychology | Clint Watson | FineArtViews | social media

This post is by Clint Watson, former art gallery owner and founder of BoldBrush, known for FASO Artist Websites, the leading provider of professional artist websites, the $38,000+ BoldBrush Painting Competition and the free daily art marketing newsletter, FineArtViews. As a self-proclaimed "art fanatic", Clint delights that BoldBrush's downtown San Antonio, Texas office is full of original art, as is his home office which he shares with his two feline assistants Kiara and Lilly. You can connect with Clint on Twitter, Facebook or his personal blog at clintavo.com

 There is some truth to this quote by Jeff Hammerbacher:

    “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” [1]

If there is indeed a correlation between silence and creativity, then beware of what we, the geeks, have created.  We've built Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many other services that are designed to tap into the same part of your brain that addicts people to slot machines...all with the goal of getting you to click on our ads.  We want to bring you back, over and over and over again so that you'll click on the ads and make us rich.  That sucks (for you, not for us :-)).

 The best way to sell art is to produce art that is so good they can't ignore you.  To do that, you need to spend time quietly.....the opposite of what the best tech minds of our generation are trying to get you to do.  We, the geeks, simply can not allow you that
quiet time, because that might make you rich instead of us.  We need you to be a consumer, not a producer.  

 So......beware the geeks.  If you let us, we'll be happy to take your time, your money and your future.

 Sincerely,
Clint Watson
FASO Founder, Software Craftsman and Art Fanatic
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Footnotes
[1] Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b4225060960537.htm

*This was one of the comments on the above post:

I wasted $1000 with David Emmons who is selling a class to artists to learn how to put ads on Facebook. He claims to make 635 sales per month and a -6 figure - income. I diligently went through the whole class, made the changes, business page with FB, paid for some ads but quickly figured out that the only one making money was FB. When I wrote toDavid to ask about this he cut me off from my - lifetime” access to the course and will not answer my emails. So BEWARE Artists! Everyone Wants to take your money. They all have the - easy” answer, the one step solution, etc. There is no -easy” answer, there is work! Eileen
Posted by Eileen P. Goldenberg · via fineartviews.com · 9 months ago

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