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Sneaker Steps on the Red Carpet

Taking Artist Steps

It is sneaker steps on the red carpet. One of the series of steps an artist can take is when those steps are on the red carpet. But who the red carpet is put up by is less important than the steps themselves.

One of the Best Awards Shows Out There

In this brief blog entry we will be discussing an entity that has gained respect in many circles and has been on the red carpet several times thanks to the Platinum PIAs Awards.

Amount of Updating

DIYdigi is back in a big way. When the website first came on the scene there was a lot of excitement about it. The blog was updated nearly every day. One of the best ways of measuring the amount of energy being put into a website’s blog is by seeing how often it is updated.

Back to Us

DIYdigi is in that model right now and one of the ways we know this to be true is the fact that it is featuring featuring links today that will lead you back to us.

Put What On?

This is the DIYdigi red carpet in motion. Want to take the artist steps on the artist step carpet? Put on those sneakers!

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Success Go Get It

Your Point of View

So, you want to have the success of a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg? The secret to doing this is to do what they did: seeing a great need in the marketplace and then presenting it. Look for problems or opportunities and seize them, show your point of view and plans for surpassing it.

Draw Them In

You may have noticed in the prior description we used three words that relate to marketing. They include marketplace, present and show. You see in order to get on track as a billionaire you need lots of help. You will often draw others into your domain by clearly showing them a proposal that makes them want to get involved. Presenting this to them can result in them wanting to work with you.

Your Vision for the Marketplace

It is really as simple as showing the problem in the marketplace and then presenting to them your solution and their involvement in it.

Testing Your Ideas

You may not need to immediately involve others. There is research and testing you can do prior, such as tweaks to your website, leading to the analyzation of what you are proposing. You can check page popularity for answers to some questions. The same thing goes for your email list is you have one. Try subject lines in emails you send out and pay attention to the response. How many clicked open, or who then clicked the links within the message.

Uncovering a Key

Use whatever you have at your disposal to test out your ideas. Are you curious as to what may be areas to look into for your billion dollar idea? Areas might include industries in need of new solutions. These could be wireless electricity, data storage, energy storage, better systems for things such as water filtration, or how about antigravity? None of these interest you? That’s okay. You have a great idea lingering the back of your mind even if you do not know it yet.

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Mission Artists

The Nonprofit Connection

Thus far, Artist Steps at ArtistSteps.org is one of the sites that use a “.org” extension. This is often done for websites and blogs that have some kind of nonprofit connection or are nonprofits themselves.

Helping Those in Need

A nonprofit organization is one that does not do what they do for profits but instead raise money to serve and assist those who are in need.

Mission: Help Artists

Although Artist Steps is technically not a nonprofit, it takes an interest in artist of all kinds who want to make a difference with their creativity.

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Being Creative

Now moving forward, we still have about two hundred words to do today to moving forward so we are going to give you some very useful secrets of the creative process.

The biggest secret of all is that creativity is actually not something to worry about. You are always creative even if you don’t think you are. Just think of all the parts that make up you.

You are walking around and doing what you do daily, and all the while you have a thought process. This thought process, if pointed at your creative goals, will enable you to make creative choices. Very simple, indeed.

So why not try it right now. Or maybe don’t actually do the physical chunk about to be unfolded. Imagine it instead.

Let’s imagine that you are writing an eBook as we are right now. What topic would make sense for you next. Think through the kinds of topics you have had in your lifetime. Pick one that you like. Now look at what you are intending to write about. See if you can meld your idea of a topic and what you are bout to write about, Get an image for it now. We are thinking that we want to cheer you on. So maybe some cheerleading image would be appropriate. Let’s explore usplash.com for some ideas.

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A New Marketing eBook that We Just Read the Preview of

Profitable for Your Business

Last time we took a look at what it takes to create an eBook, so it made sense that this go around we explore an actual eBook product that is soon to hit the marketplace. The eBook is entitled “Create Profitable Marketing” and as the title implies it is about how to create marketing that is profitable for your business.

Worth the Investment

We saw aspects of what we liked and what we didn’t like. For example one thumbs down was the organization of it. It seemed like it had been thrown together, thrown together passionately though. Despite its shortcomings, even if you get just one little marketing gem, Create Profitable Marketing is well worth the investment.

Three Steps

And we believe you will find something in these pages that will be useful to you. It is clear that a real marketer wrote it, a marketer who may not be much of an other but one who gives a lot in the eBook’s pages. And it is a good fit for being reviewed on this website because like Artist Steps where we are always looking for step by step, Create Profitable often comes back to this concept. Specifically the “thesis” if you will is that much of the books lessons come down to just three steps!

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Steps to Create Your Own Nonfiction eBook Product

What are the steps to creating your own nonfiction eBook?

  1.  Know your material or do research.
  2. Figure out a writing schedule and stick to it.
  3. When completed it is not over yet, get it edited.
  4. Make sure your selected images are relevant.
  5. Either find a website that sells your type of book or sell it yourself.
  6. Track sales.
  7. Marketing. Marketing. Marketing

So as you can see it is not a difficult series of steps, so why haven’t you done it yet?!

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Steps

Steps to Create and Promote Your Blog

Do You Want to Increase the Power of Your Blog?

As you’ve probably noticed we are big on steps when it comes to this website. Hence the name ArtistSteps.org. A nice example of steps in action can be found on one of our favorite websites as of late. It is called DIYdigi and they have an article from today that clearly lays out the process to create and promote your blog.

Areas Explored

Do you have a blog? Do you want a blog? Both of these areas are explored in the post.

Offers

Just to let you know, they do mention their own products and services that are available, but there is enough information of value that this concern falls by the wayside. Or who knows, maybe you’ll want what they offer!

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Another Way to Look at Achieving What You Desire

Looking at How Others Did It

Sometimes it is helpful to look to great leaders of the past and analyze how they achieved what they did in their lifetimes.

“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela

Chances are that none of us are going to attain what Nelson Mandela did in his lifetime. You’d have to be superhuman to do so. But one can look at the conviction and focus that he had as well as the steps he took.

Consider Rekindling

Even if you gave up on your dream long ago, you can still rekindle it, maybe even in a different way. Without diminishing your original desire, there might be a new way of looking at what you want. Maybe there is an aspect of your original pursuit that you are better fit for now.

Insights Can Help

For more insights to help you along, please take a look at a post on the DIYdigi website. Here’s another important Mandela quote to live by:

It always seems impossible until it is done. – Nelson Mandela

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Artists Can Climb the Steps to the Sky

Climb the Steps

It’s never been easier for artists to succeed here in New York City. On the one hand the city is burning up due the looting, rioting and protesting that is going on in our beloved NYC, but on the other hand it provides inspiration for artists to utilize when climbing their steps to the sky.

Integrate It

Think about it. Some of the best work of creators has come from important events and changes of the culture and more of the big cities. You can be a part of that now and integrate it into your work.

Creative Message

Look, current events are not fodder for all artists, but is surely an opportunity for those who want to climb the artists steps. Here is your chance to interpret what is going on and to make it a part of your creative message.

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Take Your Artist Steps to a New Consciousness

Not a Straight Line

Here’s a little secret you may not know about. In the mind, steps don’t always have to be linear. Although we use steps to symbolize the ones you take, they don’t actually have to be in a straight line.

Keep Growing

You do though need to take those steps to a new consciousness. At every stage of your artist steps you should be refreshing and redefining what your belief system is. In other words you need to keep growing or you won’t make it to the next step.

Don’t Trip

The way to do this is to have an open mind and know that you don’t know everything but still keep the confidence to believe in yourself. If you do not believe in yourself then you have a problem. Don’t let yourself trip and fall down the stairs.