A New Year, A New Vision and a New Business Plan for MADART

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Happy New Year! I hope everyone will have a fantastic and fruitful 2010!

As many of you know I just recently moved back to Florida from Alaska, but only for the winter's :) We still have our beautiful Summer cabin in the remote bush of Alaska that we will visit every year for peace and relaxation. I hope to have the opportunity to be more involved with the locals art community in Florida. In Alaska there aren't NEAR the opportunities that Florida provides, and I hope to take full advantage while I'm here!

I've been working on licensing my Signature Style art for the past six months (www.madartgallery.net), but haven't been as focused and organized with the process as I need to make it a success. So, this is the year I'm REALLY going to incorporate a new Business Plan geared towards making licensing my art the main business aspect.

The first step will be to dedicate a specific amount of time every day for painting Signature Style art and creating mock-ups for products and submitting portfolio's to manufacturers. I also have to prepare for my debut at the Surtex Licensing show in New York this May. I'm VERY excited about the opportunities this show will provide, but at the same time nervous and anxious to present my art the best I possibly can! This means LOTS of time spent preparing my booth and Company image and making contacts with manufacturers prior to the event.

My specific project this week is to prepare mock-up sheets for submitting with my portfolio's. This will help to present my art in the best possible way and also show the potential manufacturer what my art will look like on their products. Here is one I just completed for coasters of my wine images.

I hope you will follow me on my journey as I prepare to turn MADART into a Lifestyle Brand! I'm going to continue to post on this blog with new art, ideas, contacts and hopefully lots of new opportunities! By the end of this year I hope to have my art on many more products in addition to the one's already available (please visit my website to see current MADART products).