As a member of the Artists In Business Insider Group, you receive access to the AIB Expert Panel, in addition to bi-monthly live support calls and weekly Deep-Dive podcast interviews with artistic business experts diving deep into the ways in which they took their businesses to positive profits without compromising the integrity of their artistic vision.
The AIB Expert Panel consists of artists with thriving businesses who have specific areas of expertise in the areas you most need in order to ensure your business is on the right track toward profit growth. Each expert is a member of the AIB Insider Facebook group and is available to answer questions as they come up for you and as you post them in the group.
Vana Chupp
Inspired by the sweet and simple moments in life, Vana is professionally trained as an architect with an artist’s heart. Her silhouette craft was first born as she began documenting the personality, emotion, and playfulness of her son Nikolas. Over the years she has established herself as a leading, honest, authentic voice on women in business, the balance of work and family, and how to foster creativity in everyday life. Now, as a mama to two busy boys, wife to her college sweetheart and owner of a labor-of-love brand, she strives to make a difference in her clients’ lives. Her favorite stories to hear from customers are that they will treasure their silhouette jewelry as it reminds them of their loved ones when they were little, a memory they will forever keep close to heart (literally!).
Company: Le Papier Studio
Website: https://lepapierstudio.com/
AIB Insider Expertise:
Etsy: Started her first wildly successful business on Etsy
Artistic Six-Figure Business Owner
Author: Silhouette Art and Pretty Paper Parties, published by Chronicle Books
Vana’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/vana-chupp
Angie Johnson
Angie Johnson has been designing under the name Norwegian Wood since 2008. She started her first company at the tender age of 16 and has been working in the fields of fashion, graphic design, interiors, styling and photography ever since.
Company: Norwegian Wood
Website: https://www.norwegianwoodonline.com/
AIB Insider Expertise:
Etsy: Angie has run a successful Etsy shop for many years
Artistic Six-Figure Business Owner
Sells Handmade Clothing And Homegoods
Angie’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/angie-johnson
Yuri Cataldo
Yuri Cataldo is a Yale-trained set/costume designer with over 100 design credits. He is also the founder of the award-winning bottled water IndigoH2O, and the architect of a College program focused on art and business, and the marketing director for a tech start up, and the host of the “Advance Your Art” podcast. He is an expert at taking an artist’s story- your Why- and breaking it down in a way that immediately gets the attention of the kind of press that can help your art get in front of your most ideal clients, quickly and easily.
Company: Yuri Cataldo
Website: http://www.yuricataldo.com/
AIB Insider Expertise:
Expert at getting the right kind of PR for artistic businesses
Award-winning product-based business owner
Yuri’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/yuri-cataldo
Jon Stancato
Jon Stancato helps singers, actors, speakers and others fall in love with the beauty, range, power and expression of their own unique voices and create a space where working on the voice is working on the self.
Jon has taught at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art in London and holds regular classes at Judson Church New York City. In addition, he has come up with a unique way to bring in revenue for his business with Patreon.com that benefits the artists he works with more so than any other I’ve heard of.
Company: Sing A Secret
Websites:
http://stolenchair.org/
https://www.patreon.com/voice
AIB Insider Expertise:
Successful artistic business model built on Patreon
Online marketing Expertise
Jon’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/jon-stancato
Laura Phillips
Laura Phillips is a biz strategy coach with a decade of digital marketing experience working with brands all over the world. After growing her own successful agency, she now coaches business owners how to confidently implement a winning digital marketing strategy in their business and how to become more visible online.
Company: Laura Phillips
Website: http://www.lauraphillips.co.uk/
AIB Insider Expertise:
Online Marketing Expert
Business Strategy Coach
Marketing Funnel Expert
Tech Goddess
Laura’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/laura-phillips
Bailie Slevin
Bailie Slevin is the founder of Entertaining Finance, a financial consulting and advising firm geared specifically towards creatives. She is the perfect combination of finance ninja and theater nerd. With over 10 years of experience as a financial adviser and a hefty resume in theater, she is redefining planning for artists and entrepreneurs. She’s worked with Certified Financial Services and Forest Hills Financial Group in finance and teaches Financial Literacy and Well-being workshops and speaks throughout the region on the specifics of Financial Management for Artists.
Company: Entertaining Finance
Website: http://www.entertainingfinance.com/
AIB Insider Expertise:
Six-Figure Artistic Business Owner
Artistic Business Financial Expert
Bailie’s AIB Podcast Interview: alexisfedor.com/bailie-slevin