Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in arts but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Nik Caesar, Owner of Scary-Art, located in Fremont, CA, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
I am a one-person shop selling affordable dark/lowbrow/weird art to everyone from rock stars to baristas.
Tell us about yourself
I've been everything from a tour guide at the Winchester Mystery House to being an account pirate for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, but life has a way of hammering you to where you need to be. Self-taught, school of hard knocks, trial, and error. I'm still learning. Competing with myself, trying to refine, learn, and grow, using art as journal pages on a very long road.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
Being able to do what I love for a living.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
Recessions, pandemics, regular attempts at an apocalypse. Some months I'm rich, others not so much, but I keep riding the wave through financial instability, lol.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
Get an account at usps.com, do your own research (avoid talking heads and business gurus). Anything I can do, you can do. If all else fails and you need rent money - paint cats.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: http://www.scary-art.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.caesar/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scaryartiques/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scaryart1973
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