 Well hello have you ever wanted to travel with your art business? I'm kind of wondered how is it possible? What do I need to do? What do I need to think about? Then this video is just for you. Right now I'm in the middle of traveling with my art business. I'm in my friend's kitchen shooting this video just for you. So in this video I'm going to share some of my tips and tricks, things to do, things to think about when you sign to go traveling whether that's short term or long term and of course some ideas of what to take with you in terms of artist materials as well. Well hello and welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name's Sophie and I just love to help artists like you to set up market and grow a successful art business doing what you love. If you'd like more tips and tricks on how to build that profitable art business then you're in the right place. Don't forget to subscribe below this video and hit the bell to get notified as well. I put out new content every single week and I look forward to having you join my growing YouTube circle. Okay so you want to travel with your art business and you're wondering exactly how to get started. So before you do here are some key questions that you really want to ask yourself and consider the answers to. So firstly what country or countries are you thinking of going to? We're thinking climate here folks. Are you going to cold countries? Warm countries? Are you going to go to multiple countries or just one country and settle? How long are you planning to be away? Is it a short trip? A couple of weeks? A month? Six months? Or perhaps you're thinking about doing this for a year or more? What sort of accommodation are you going to be taking? Are you doing the backpacker thing and you'll be staying in hostels or doing some couch surfing or will you be doing some more glamping and nice air BMBs? So all of these things count into what you're going to be taking with you and of course that 64 million dollar question. How easy is it going to be to get on the wi-fi? So here's some basic travel tips. Number one, stick to one climate. So if you're going to go away for an extensive period of time and you're going through kind of summer and winter then you're going to have a wardrobe issue. So you're either going to be buying, selling and exchanging clothes or traveling with way more than you want to. So if you stay in one kind of climate you only need one set of clothes and it's going to keep your luggage to a minimum which you need when traveling. The next tip is just be ready to pay extra for more data and more wi-fi. Wi-fi is the thing that is going to run your business and when you go to different countries it's not always going to work as well as you were promised. You might need to buy a new sim for each country that you go in, pop it in your phone and use that data. You might need to buy a little wi-fi box and top that up or you might need to go to places and pay like a co-working space and pay for good quality wi-fi. If you're traveling in places where wi-fi is not the top priority for that country then you're definitely going to have to plan ahead. What are you going to be doing on the trip and how much internet are you actually going to be needing? Some places it's super easy but really from my experience and I've traveled around quite a lot. The one thing that's always been the challenge is getting on good quality wi-fi so I would say be prepared to spend extra to get something that works so you're not spending hours of your time you know being on dial-up waiting for things to kind of load. Definitely plan ahead with where you're going to be working. Now you might not want to be working all day because let's face it if you're traveling you probably want to explore the places you're in but plan ahead in terms of finding cafes co-working spaces that nice Airbnb room that you could do a little bit of work from or perhaps you've taken on a cabin somewhere and you can sit outside. You really want to think about the hours of the day that you're going to be doing the work and where you're going to be doing that because you can end up losing a lot of time and I absolutely know this one moving from cafe to cafe. You get there and they give you two hours internet you sit down and you're like do something and then you've got to move to another it's very disruptive so you definitely want to plan ahead and find a few spots that you could actually get the all-important work done. Carry minimal art equipment with you now when I left Australia to come on this trip I had everything out in my studio and I have brought with me and I'm going to share that on another video a selection of things I don't normally use in my existing practice that I wanted to explore and were very portable all right so I had to part with an awful lot of the things I did pile up the paints I wanted to bring and I thought they're too heavy it's going to be a problem bringing them back in the country leave them behind I ended up with all sorts of small things and it ended up kind of as that would probably fill a shoebox and then I brought paper larger paper locally so you really want to think about what's the absolute minimum that you need in terms of art equipment and bearing in mind that some things you can buy on the go then you don't want to be adding to your baggage either so you want to be thinking about what do you really need and yes all those like yummy pencils that you like to use in your studio might not be coming with you so what do you actually need minimum art equipment and then my last tip for this section is definitely allow way more time than you think for settling settling in your new location so wherever you're going it always takes a while to find out where's the shop where's the cafe where am I where am I going to do things do I need to walk for inspiration what am I going to be doing is that unsettling period I don't know anyone who's just landed somewhere opened up in a new venue in a new country and then just cracked on there's always a bit of time to settle in and work out where you are so just allow for it and enjoy it go out and explore your new environment I then perhaps plan to do the work in week number two all right here's some specific tips for when you're actually getting the business the working time done when you're actually building the art business on the go so the first tip here is to just be realistic with how many hours you actually want to be working now whether that's doing the marketing the admin uploading stuff to your you know sales platform whether that's actually painting drawing or might be delivering some sort of service online but how many hours out of the day do you actually want to be doing that you've chosen to travel because presumably you want to explore a place so the way I like to look at it is I want to be doing that maybe half the day and have the other half of the day to explore now it doesn't always happen that way if you're going away to complete a specific project then that's something different we'll talk about that in a minute and then you definitely want to use nice cafes and nice airbnb settings in the past I've been quite lucky with finding pretty airbnb's that I knew would be good background when I was doing a live video for example so you want to be thinking about where you're going to be doing that and of course you want to sit in a nice setting nothing nicer than being somewhere lovely and warm and sitting in a nice cafe with a lovely view now let's talk about money make sure that you have a very clear income projection for the coming weeks month that you're away so that you've either got passive income streams money that's already coming in or you've got a lump sum already set aside that would cover all your business expenses and pay your salary while you're traveling or you're very clear of what it is you're going to be selling as you travel there's nothing worse than rocking up somewhere and then looking at your bank account going oh there's no money in it this month that that's not the way to run a business so you definitely want to have projects that you're working on a sales offer that you know that you're going to launch but ideally you've already got the money to the side or you've already got passive income from one of your income streams covering that so that you can travel a little bit more with ease so obviously here you'd be using your business plan so check out this video on my business plan training and all the business planning information including our lovely build your artist business plan course below this video and the final little tip for this section is take some good quality headphones with you because if you are in a co-working space or a cafe sometimes it can be quite noisy I don't mind the noise myself but having your own playlist that's perhaps something you listen to anyway keeps you in that kind of work zone so this whole working on the go traveling with your art business is going to suit you if you're in a particular stage or you're doing something specific so it will suit you particularly if you already have an established online sales platform and all you'll be doing is creating a few more products or updating your existing ones or fulfilling on your marketing routine will also work if you're going away to just complete one project you're writing a book you're putting a collection of illustrations together etc etc something you're writing an online course and you just want to be somewhere foreign and nice to get that done it also suits you if you're good at batching your content ahead of time so you can batch posts and emails and so all sorts of things before you travel that's making it a lot easier and enabling you to do a lot less while you're away it's also going to suit you if you actually love the laptop lifestyle and if you find that at home you naturally work from cafes anyway and it's going to suit you if you can remain flexible super patient and always remember to have lots of fun so traveling with your art business can be one of the most rejuvenating and exciting things that you can do you can see new perspectives you can gain new inspiration you can take lots of photographs and you can come back ready to crack on with new projects but it can also be a little bit stressful if you haven't taken into consideration some of the things I've discussed today so the most important thing obviously is to really work out where you're going why you're going how long you're going to be away and all those tips and things I talked about at the beginning if you've got any questions about traveling with your art business I'd love to hear from you to shoot those below in the comments below this video and look out for the next one where I'm just going to share what art materials I've brought with me on this trip thank you so much for watching and I'll see you on another one