This will not apply to all art professionals (and certainly should not be taken as good advice by some) but it won’t hurt them either. All this message has to do is help decrease the number of “I’ll pay you in publicity” offers from people who are trying to sell ice to [Inuit], so to speak. Maybe it might even result in a few more artists getting paid for their work?
“You don’t pay IN publicity, you pay FOR publicity.”
*salutes*
Reblogging this for all my fellow freelancers!
(Unfortunately, we are unable to feed our cats in publicity.)