This is a solid tutorial.

I made a set of diagrams here that point toward areas that I don't think have solutions yet:

This here shows where artists are coming from:

It seems like for the most part NFTShowroom is attracting inexperienced artists, with a handful of people who are a bit more successful in both ETH and HIVE markets. However, a lack of whale or serious [non-artist] collectors causes most successful Cryptoartists, and any new and potentially luminary cryptoartists from the Fiat world, to go toward ETH ecosystem.

It should go without saying that if crpytoartists are all just passing around 50 HIVE, collecting from each other, we're not really a marketplace, as much as a trade circle, and while it might feel nice, it's not really providing a business for anyone.

The luminaries are attracted to where the money is, and the money goes to the luminaries - so the Collectors are over in the ETH Ecosystem.

This sets us up with a problem, because in attracting inexperienced artists, and onboarding inexperienced artists, we are not going to be drawing the collectors in anything but a trickle, and even if we onboard a ton of new artists, -- if the work is not solid or 'worthy' of collectors, then it's likely to be a bunch of cheap noise and not that remarkable, and in addition to that, there will be a churn, because "Nobody bought my thing".

[Nobody upvoted my post!!! - sound familiar?]

So we have 3 issues here:

1. How can CURRENTLY EXISTING HIVE artists, who have already drank the kool-aid, create work that is remarkable enough to attract collectors?
2. If NFTShowroom is not yet attractive to successful cryptoartists, and Crypto-Curious Fiat Artists, because it's not financially lucrative -- because there are not an abundance of collectors in comparison to ETH markets -- THEN, how can we model to these people the value of using a HIVE Art Blog, or Joining a Community?
3. IF Whales and ETH Collectors find their primary value in following artists on ETH who are already successful on their given platforms, then HOW can we give those whales an opportunity to use HIVE as a means of organizing their art communities / collectives / curation circles -- How can these Whales and large collectors leverage the HIVE Ecosystem itself to benefit themselves and their circles, -- Start a Community?

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The solutions that I propose are different for each target:

1. HIVE artists need to do projects that are substancial enough to draw attention from ETH and EOS and FIAT markets and audience pools, and then recenter that attention back into HIVE Communities, and NFTShowroom. -- In order to do this, people need to consider more sincerely what it is they are doing with art, and how they can expand to these areas and resource pools.
2. IF HIVE artists do this, the communities that they participate in will become more wealthy, because they will have additional income from external markets, and therefore will be able to have more HP. These people will become artist collectors, and their upvotes will increase the value of the communities, -- and they will be worthy of collaboration with FIAT and Non HIVE CryptoArtists. -- This will onboard these two groups [and their correlated collectors] to HIVE.
3. The real question of How to make an ETH or EOS Whale / Collector, turn into a HIVE Whale / Collector has to do with the value of HIVE itself, and the value of NFTShowroom. If More serious artists are doing remarkable work on NFTShowroom, then there will be more collectors attracted. But, I'd also like to point out that there are many telegram groups and discord groups that are centered around a Whale or a group of collectors. [$WHALE comes to mind].

So, on the lower economic end of things, we need to [each of us who wants NFTShowroom to work for us] -- to make projects that are worthy of the attention and resources we are hoping to secure by posting our NFTs there.

[This would be the strategy for anyone using #nobodyartist]

On the Middle Economic Spectrum -- We need to be establishing ourselves as artists who have multiple resource streams, and then stacking HIVE / HP so that those resources can be allocated toward Communities via vote power, The collective attempt here would also include attracting audiences that follow YOUR work, from outside of HIVE, into shared [or individual / niche ] communities, and then those people and resources can splash outward and cross-pollinate for the less accomplished #nobodyartists.

[This would be a strategy for a working artist, or aspiring working artist.]

On the Higher Economic Spectrum -- We need to encourage and | model Curation projects that are focused on creating HIVE Whales and giving them prestige and financially lucrative investments.

What this means, is people like Boullage, who are collecting and setting up curation galleries on Cryptovoxels, need to be able to have prestige and profit from their activities. If Boullage can make money, and gain status by doing what they are doing, then other cryptoart whales will see and want to gain access to those same rewards.

[This would be a strategy for a whale collector / curator.]

ALL of this starts with Me and You doing better art projects, and understanding how those art projects relate to the people we are hoping will collect our work.

Quality gives way to Quantity.