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It’s here! Welcome to our new site (+ win an iPad mini and more with our huge giveaway!)

Welcome to our shiny new site MakeArtThatSells.com, the home of resources, advice and courses for artists who want to make their art more commercially viable whilst staying true to themselves. If that is you, you are in the right place! Here are a few words from your host Lilla Rogers, who is thrilled to have you here: [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/121378099[/vimeo] As Lilla said, the site is packed with free resources including Q&A with industry experts, top tips for building your career, inspiring videos to keep you moving forward. You can also find out more about our hugely popular online courses, the 2015 Global Talent Search and our upcoming LIVE event (yes ‘live’, as in we’ll all be in the same room – it’s going to be awesome!) Make yourself a cup of coffee, take out your notebook and spend some time exploring, learning and growing. We are committed to helping artists all


Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talk on nurturing creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk on nurturing creativity Elizabeth Gilbert, the amazing author of Eat, Pray, Love  recently gave a great TED Talk. This part really stuck out to us: I am a writer. Writing books is my profession but it’s more than that, of course. It is also my great lifelong love and fascination. And I don’t expect that that’s ever going to change. But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career, which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work. And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book, this memoir called Eat, Pray, Lovewhich, decidedly unlike any of my previous books, went out in the world for some reason, and became this big, mega-sensation, international bestseller thing. The result of which is that everywhere I go now, people treat me like I’m