Not many people realize, including many artists, that becoming an artist is most often also becoming an entrepreneur. Unless you are an artist that works for a company full-time on a salary or hourly pay, you are an entrepreneur.

That means as well as doing what you are good at, you also need to do everything that other entrepreneurs do, running their own business. And if anyone ever tells you that is easy to do, they are wrong.

This article is an introduction to the business side of being an artist. So what do you need to consider to run an artist business?

Barry Dunlop, Maverick Entrepreneur and Master Salesman is being interviewed by his son, Michael Dunlop. Barry Dunlop is a business partner of Dean Hunt, the famous blogger with killer rabbits... The interview deals with entrepreneurship, and the life of Barry Dunlop, what he did to become successful. One of his advice is simply to... TAKE ACTION.. Do it instead of thinking about doing it.