What I love most about showcasing my work online is all the wonderful feedback.

We as artists can't do without it. If no one is talking to you about your product, good or bad you are doing something wrong.

I personally don't mind the negative press about my work, I don't mind when someone says I don't like what you do, or couldn't you be more professional about your showcase.

At first I was a little upset. I mean who wouldn't be, We all want to be liked and appreciated but then an adage came to mind that messed me up for life. An entirely different way at looking at things. Well two adages that lead into each other.

1.) Any publicity is good publicity.

2.) Another man's trash is someone's treasure.

Without these two methods of viewing our work and the sell of any product we would not have a competitive market. The work would be meaningless and we would simply be people pleases instead of artistice inovators. The customer is not always right, he/she is a customer and unless they are buying, "whole" a custom product all that can be said is, "Thanks for the information and I am glad you stopped by for a viewing."

Can you see it. Even when someone did not like your work, they had to go out and tell someone about how much they did not like it and that opens a whole conversation for people to view what was so distested  and there is the off chance of someone saying the exact opposite of what the other did and if the person never came by, there never would have been publicity.

Recently I opened a conversation online with a company that is much like my own and they operate on a whole different level. A lot more employees and so on. Great. Why? Because the idea that I had now has a community of like minded people that can be pulled from and open the conversation even more. When I reached out this company and asked around and complemented there work I was surprised to see such a warm response from them. They said thank you for noticing.

I mean what else could they say. A whole lot. Like stop snooping at our brand and trying to steal ideas. Insecurity is not good for business. It happens though. We gloss over it with a smile and keep it ticking, but imagine there is room for my niche in the world and I might have thought I was the only one in the world that was kicking this bucket around by myself but I have found a whole group of innovators that really want to be seen and heard and I got to smile for the camera, for a company that might not even wanted my help but they like the publicity that my promotions gives them.

Will they be so kind as to tell people about me; we will wait an see. I know I would tell people about them as they gloss through my associated twitter feed, but I am more secure in the idea that even if they don't like my presentation because I would be a competitor, or they just don't like my art or any other negative press one can think of, it is press non-the-less. That is what we are looking for all the time.

Thanks to NG, creators can be seen and heard.