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S02 Episode 4: Why open a physical place for art instead of an online business?

The question I ask this week:
"Why open a physical place instead of an online business?"

With the ability to sell and promote anything you make online, why would anyone spend the extra time and money opening a brick and mortar store? I wondered about the benefits of both choices.

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If you create things in your spare time, you've probably thought about trying to do it for a living or maybe you're just trying to get the guts to put it out there for the first time.

So what would it take to follow through and actually do it?

To help understand what it's like, listen to what these local creatives say about what they do.

Here's a list of the places I talk to in each episode this season.
Each week I ask one question and find out where the conversation takes us, to learn more about how these people decided to take their process one step further.

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