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Dustin Lee: “The Key to achieving success is showing up consistently.”

Art Biz Talk | E15 | Dustin Lee founded RetroSupply in 2012 when his first daughter was on the way. He was hoping to make diaper money and show her that you could make money doing something you loved. 10 years later, Dustin has three employees and they’ve served over 150,000 customers. He co-hosts the Honest Designers podcast and today he is sharing his best entrepreneurial advice for artists.

Episode Notes

About the guest

RetroSupply started as a small shop on Creative Market. With some mentorship from the original founders Dustin was able to grow RetroSupply into its own business on its own website quickly. 

He wanted to make RetroSupply a living business (not just a machine delivering downloads). They work on products full time, bring steady side income to dozens of partners, and have a strong reputation for being one of the best brush and digital asset shops to get support from real artists. 

Visit Retro Supply’s Website

Dustin’s Email Course: Passive income for designers 

Honest Designers Show podcast – for business tips for designers

Resources for Visual Artists

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CREDITS

Art Biz Talk is hosted by Andrea La Valleur-Purvis, Artist and Strategist at Vivid Creative

About the Author
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Andrea La Valleur-Purvis

Andrea La Valleur-Purvis writes and teaches business strategy to visual artists, hosts the Art Biz Talk podcast and creates abstract sculptures for private, public and workspaces around the world.

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