One year after I quit social media 🌿 Q&A pt.1: Art Business, Marketing, Audience Building

My update one year after I quit social media. I'm an illustrator, and I deleted my social media presence in 2019. Here's part one of the Q&A with your most asked questions.

Q&A topics:
00:40 How did my year go, what changed for me as an artist (with a business) and as a person?
5:34 Did I struggle with anything? How did I get enough followers without being all over social media?
7:54 How many followers did I have?
9:20 Questioning the production of free content for social media
13:33 Do you think your business benefitted from being on social media in the beginning?
15:13 Did you gain confidence from social media?
16:17 How are you marketing?
20:40 How does an emerging artist get themselves known? Tips for starting artists
24:07 How are you getting your illustration business clients?
24:38 How have you built your business without having a Facebook presence?
25:53 Reluctant when learning how to use Instagram?

Learn more about why I quit social media in my first video about the topic:
   • Why I quit social media - my advice f...  

My original blog post:
https://juliabausenhardt.com/why-i-qu...

Resources for further reading:
If you’re thinking about changing your social media habits, read these books and articles to form your own opinion:

Books:
Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport - Deep Work
Jaron Lanier - Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows

Documentary:
The Great Hack: https://www.thegreathack.com

Articles:
Paul Jarvis - On the Facebook Like button, and why it’s awful: https://pjrvs.com/like/
Social media is a threat to democracy: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadw...


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