The Disruptive Entrepreneur

It’s important to know your self worth especially when pricing things that have taken you a long time to be able to do but the materialistic cost is very low. Included in this episode, Rob shares his experiences and learnings from when he was trying to become a successful artist.       KEY TAKEAWAYS  I didn’t focus on the commercial aspect of art. I just focused on painting, if I didn’t sell well then I would paint more. I didn’t feel like I could charge much because the cost of producing the product was cheap.  I was pricing my work depending on the material costs and I didn’t want people to think I was ripping them off. But what I didn’t factor in was my whole life’s work.   I didn’t know what other artists were doing and I didn’t know what was going on in the art scene. I isolated myself away from everyone which made me very introverted.   I didn’t leverage other people as an artist. Now as a businessman, I would really take advantage of networking and working with lots of other people. Just getting you