I’m hitting the road! Sara and I are buying a 33-foot Southwind motor home and will be living on the road full-time. Granted, we’ll be spending a lot of time at different places, but we’ll be living a mobile lifestyle. I hope to have internet access most of the time, but I won’t be able to rely on that, especially when we are enroute from one place to the next.
What that means for this website is that I cannot count on my ability to post 2 to 3 times per week. I have also faced the fact that I am put a lot of time and energy into this site and receive very little monetary reward. I need to focus my talents and energy towards efforts that will help me pay the bills.
I am not abandoning you, however. I will continue to write articles and be active in the forum. And I have two ideas that I want to run past you.
One, I want to reorganize and redesign this website so it is easier to find and use past articles. There is a lot of good information in this blog, but it is not very easy to find. My thought is to create a library of articles that is organized and easy to use.
Two (and this is the big one), I want to turn this site into a community blog. This means that any of you can have an account on the site as an author and then write whatever or whenever you want. Of course, we’ll keep it within the realm of art marketing, but that is a pretty broad umbrella. For example, you could sign up and create your own post about you and your art, similar to what I’ve been doing with the Feature Friday. You could also write about anything to do with your own art marketing, online or off. There are several blogs that work this way, including ReveNews.com.
Please let me know what you think of all of this and especially if you think you would ever be interested in joining this site as a community blogger.
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Chris O’Byrne
www.OnlineArtsMarketing.com
www.YourArtMarketing.com
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I think the idea of the community blog is an excellent one (although I’ll miss your regular posts).
Best wishes for your and Sara’s new life on the road!
Chris - this is exciting news!! Very exciting.
I think it could work - though I would miss you greatly!!!
~ Diane Clancy
http://www.DianeClancy.com/blog
http://www.YourArtMarketing.com
I would be interested in a spot of writing now and again! I’ll miss you on a regular basis though! I think what you guys are planning is the bomb, and I totally want to get an RV and RV caravan with you two!
I also think you should compile your info (articles ) and write an e-book to sell. It would give you passive income and your could get others to sell it for you. Just a thought. 
I’m really happy for you guys.
Hey Chris, how very exciting for you and Sara!!!! I can’t wait to read about your travels. In reading your post about being an artist — you had an item in there about “change your lifestyle”. I’ve been stewing on that quite a bit. Thinking about how do people travel as artists. Anyway… also wanted to drop a quick comment to say SIGN ME UP for the blog — I’d love to contribute here and watch as the community unfolds.
Many thanks for all the writing you do here and for the forums and just for creating the space for community…
So excited for you about the mobile lifestyle!!!
miracles,
k-
I like the idea of you having your articles archived. You might take a look at Alyson Stansfield’s website.(www.artbizcoach.com) She has some of her articles available for free and others are available for membership only. It is my opinion you have s good marketing ideas (besides having excellent taste *wink*) and really you should get some compensation for what you are doing.
As for creating a community blog, I think that’s a good idea, too; though right now I don’t really see myself contributing til I have something to contribute. I hope I do soon.
Happy trails to you and Sara. Vaya con dios.
~sue okieffe
Chris:
If you drive across Canada to Alaska, take a ferry to Siberia then drive accross Kazakhstan you can visit me here in Kyrgyzstan. So when are you planning on visiting?
What great responses!
@Paul, I’ll miss doing the regular posts, also. I’ve been doing this for quite a while.
@Diane, you’ll get to see way more of me if you go to CreativeTribe.TV. As that site gets rolling, there should be several micro-posts per day there.
@Heather, I love the idea of an RV caravan! I also like the idea of an ebook, that’s one I’ve been thinking about.
@Kara, I guess when it comes to changing our lifestyle we took that point way too seriously! I’m sure we’ll get up your way on our travels. We plan to hit every part of the country, some more than once.
@Sue, thank you so much for those kind words and the info about what Alyson does with her articles. I’m going to look into that. And I think you would have plenty to add to the blog. Even just talking about some of your own sales processes would help others.
Otto, my friend, I am so totally there!! Josh has been begging me to borrow the hookah, but I would have to have an appropriate transfer ceremony. When are you coming back to the States to visit?
Chris:
I hope to come back to Arivaca to see Jim in late July or early August.
Chris and Sue: Actually, all of the articles are free now! See the archives at http://artbizcoach.com/articles
It sounds like a wonderful adventure you’re going to have, Chris. My coach is doing something similar, although not in a mobile home. Check out http://www.journeyjuju.com
Bon voyage.
Dear Chris and Sara,
First, I have a Chris friend too and I hope both of you have good and happy days with your motohome on the road.
Second, I suggest you to post some pictures and/or movies online. Doing this we will can see new places and to know new things about our still beautiful world.
Good travel and best regards,
José Alberto
jalbertomartins@gmail.com
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