Lessons From A Painting A Day

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Duane Keiser paints one postcard-sized painting nearly every day, posts a photo of his painting on his blog called A Painting a Day, and sells them through eBay for at least $100.

The simplicity of this site speaks for itself. This is the most brilliant use of a blog I’ve ever seen!

We can all learn some very valuable lessons from Duane Keiser’s passion and blog. Duane is a great artist. In fact, anyone who paints better than I do is a great artist, but Duane is a very good artist and his passion for his craft is crystal clear from even the simplest of his artworks.

So here’s what we can all learn from “A Painting A Day” :

• Using the internet free services, Duane has managed to spread (marketed) his artwork across the globe, something you would not be able to do 2 decades ago. With the spread of his artwork globally, his potential market is the whole world and he cleverly takes advantage of this by selling his beautifully simple art pieces on eBay.
• Every piece of work that you produce for you blog or website has the potential to make money for your - whether it’s a piece of code, an article or an image. And unlike physical products, with electronic products you don’t have to worry about dust, mildew or the natural force of time destroying your product. As long as your product exists on the web, there is a way to make money from it.
• One piece of work a day (like Duane’s one postcard painting a day) or a week may not seem like much, but you’ve got to look at the bigger picture. Imagine if you were to write one article a week for your blog or website. In one year, you would have accumulated 52 articles. If you work at it consistently, you would have 260 articles in 5 years. That’s the beauty of running a blog or website and making money online. If you can use your free time to create ONE piece of work at a time that is helpful, informative or generally improves the quality of life and then find ways to build an income stream around that collective body of work, you would have a solid, steady income stream. This income could potentially continue to provide for you in your sunset years and for you children beyond that. That’s the beauty of blogs and websites.
• You don’t necessarily have to think of making money as something that’s purely online. Like Duane, think of the Internet as a tool or extension of your business. Use the Internet to market your product to a world of customers.

And I think the best lesson to be learnt from Duane and his “A Painting A Day” is this :

• Pour your heart and soul into your passion and be the best at what you do. Even if you can do only ONE thing well in your life, you can be successful.

Visit A Painting A Day and let it inspire you.

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