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After unsurprising, if not requisite, delays, the 2019 Convention Artist Census Report is ready for perusal! The census collected information about artist demographics, finances, and business status. The report presents the data in a variety of graphs and charts for easy consumption and analysis.
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The official end time for the 2019 Survey has passed, and the raw spreadsheet of results is available here. With that, this project is mostly concluded, though there are still a few loose ends…
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Social media is convenient. Not only do you not need any technical expertise, you don’t have to build anything at all. It’s much easier for people to find you, and they don’t have to manually check your feed every day. Everyone they follow is combined into one feed. So handy!
But: algorithms.
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The 2018 Convention Artist Survey collected 987 artist responses regarding financial and other data for over 300 conventions in North America — how much they made, how much they spent, how far they traveled, how they rated staff communication and organisation, and so on.
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Analysis and results of the 2017 Convention Artist Survey featuring artist alley finance data, convention rankings, and over 160 charts and graphs!
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Analysis and results of the 2016 convention artist survey featuring artist alley finance data, convention rankings, and over 100 charts and graphs!
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Because of time constraints, I stopped writing long, detailed, individual convention reports at the end of 2014, but since mid-2013, I’ve been co-running the How To Be A Con Artist blog.
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After many delays due to a hectic convention season, the 2015 Convention Artist Survey results are here!
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For 2013 and 2014, Devastator Press & The Beat put together a survey about comic con exhibitor finances. The results are really interesting! I wanted to see data for anime con artists though.
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About a year ago, I was invited to beta test ArtistsnClients.com and to provide feedback for its development team. I did so with more gusto than expected.
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