Determining a Niche ​

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Ann Rea: (00:01)
Hello everyone! Welcome to day four of the five-day Making Art Making Money™. Just give me a second while I set up some settings. In the meantime, please go ahead and find the chat and ask us anything about selling your art or if you have questions about some of the things that we’ve covered, we’ve covered a lot. Go ahead and ask. Now’s the time during the pre-show.

Ann Rea: (00:31)
We’ve got some– I’ve got some time and space to answer questions, offer, encouragement, whatever it is you need. So hey! Jina is here, everybody! And so I’m going to move on over here to let Jina in. Good for you early birds. By the way, Yvette Allison, good job! Alright, just move on over here. Co-host boop and co-host.

Ann Rea: (01:12)
How do you feel right now? What a great question from Jina. How do you feel feeling more confident? Feeling a little bit more hopeful? You feeling hey-afte-listening-to-Jina-and-listening-to-Travis-maybe-this-is-not-so-crazy-it’s-possible? 

Jina Kim: (01:32)
Or feeling confused. It is okay. New information always makes you feel a little confused, right? 

Ann Rea: (01:37)
Confused. That’s cool too. How does that feel like? So Jina, let’s start about, let’s start on that topic. So you’ve been in the Facebook group, you’ve been chatting with people, and she’s been helping other fine artists for a minute now. So what do you feel, what’s coming through like with this group? Like who, what are people confused about? 

Jina Kim: (02:00)
People actually, I noticed a few comments. I wrote it down.

Ann Rea: (02:06)
That! See? Jina is paying attention, everybody.

Jina Kim: (02:10)
Alexandra asked that, “I live in a place people don’t value art. and I don’t want to be– I don’t want to sell online.” That wasn’t her, I guess.

Ann Rea: (02:23)
Okay, so I can’t do this. Because if you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you can’t. Coupled with, “And I don’t want to do anything about it.” Wow, that sounds like a really s****y situation. So, let’s just call it what it is, right? So, what do you have to think? What do you have to say about that, Jina?

Jina Kim: (02:48)
I have to say, first of all, that’s how I felt actually when I began. I didn’t know that at the time, that was a part of limiting beliefs. I didn’t know that.

Ann Rea: (02:59)
Yes. Day two, limiting beliefs. Yes.

Jina Kim: (03:02)
Now I do. So when you think of “I live in a place where people don’t value art” I would, first of all, do actual work to do research and see if that’s true. And if that’s true, then yes, online is an option. But if you could keep thinking, “I don’t want to sell online,” that’s also a limiting belief like, “I don’t.” If you keep saying, “I don’t want to. I don’t want to,” you really don’t want to do it. 

Ann Rea: (03:30)
Yes. Then you don’t want to do it. But, so yeah, you can take that. Basically. Can I just tell everybody what I look for during an application interview? And I’m sure Jina looks for the same thing. Attitude is the best indicator of someone’s success. Period. End of sentence. It’s not their network, it’s not where they live. It’s not the quality of their art. It’s none of that. It’s none of that. Because I started at zero. Jina started at zero. So what is it that moved things? It was attitude. Now let me be really clear. It’s not that at times we don’t have a s**t attitude. That’s why we have the exercise on day two, which is when inevitable limiting beliefs start crowding your thinking and preventing you from taking constructive action, that’s when you have to be aware enough to disassemble those limiting beliefs. That’s why it’s baked into day two of this five-day workshop, because we’re human and we get fearful and we get insecure. And especially if we’re being rejected unnecessarily, We’re going to get more insecure, less confident. But I mean, it’s kind of absurd.

Ann Rea: (04:56)
If you were– if given the fact that people are selling art all day long online, why would you not want to do that?

Jina Kim: (05:06)
I’m assuming, I think, from my experience, I can tell maybe it’s just my assumption. Alexandra, if I’m wrong, you can let me know in the chat.

Ann Rea: (05:15)
Yeah, let her know.