From Hobby to Business: Building a Sustainable Art Career with Hayley Price White

One other thing I wanted to ask you is

when does an artist know that it's time to ask for help? So maybe they've started some of these initial steps and they're finding that building that business is taking away time from creating.

And, you know, it's starting to become more than they had envisioned.

When do you believe it's time to start branching out and asking for help in that regard?

Yeah, I mean, I think...

It's never really it's never really too early to ask for help.

I think, again, that almost comes back to what I was talking about earlier.

Just go meet other artists and they'll help you.

for free, probably more than you could ever want.

But I also think it's, you know, more seriously, it's on a, like on a personal level, it's thinking, you know, how much is this starting to take away from my artwork? Because even artists that are at, you know, in tons of galleries and are, you know, outwardly super successful, they'll come to me and they're like, Haley, I'm only spending an hour a week on my art.

And I'm like, that's not right.

That's not what we want.

And that's a great time to, you know, really identify, okay, I need help.

I'm spending you know, six hours a week on my website.

And there's probably someone else who could do it in five minutes.

So it's just identifying where is your time going? And I'm actually, this is something that's really not fun to do, but very worth your time.

And it's a time audit.

And it's just, I would say do it for one week, just write down what you do all day.

And it starts to be, it's really clarifying just to determine, um, Here's how I spent all my time.

And can any of that be either cut out by asking for help or, you know, delegating if you have the resources to do that? And even now with technology, there's a lot of apps and resources that can help speed up processes if you don't feel like you're ready to actually hire someone like a coach or somebody to actually, you know, do the work for you, like an accountant or something like that.

I still do most of like run the majority of my business by myself and I have an assistant, but I don't outsource to like accountants and things like that

at

this time.

But it's because I leverage people that can either teach me how to do it or I use apps.

And so it's just understanding how to make the most of your time.