Wanna Save Your Team $1,000s of Dollars?
- My ARTIST ARCHIVE

- Jul 5, 2017
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 19, 2019

We thought so.
So, how many hours does it take to organize a collection? The answer: A LOT.
While organizing a collection is incredibly important, it can also take many, MANY hours to complete. Especially when the collection is sizable. Between organization, review, photographing, documentation, input, and eventual digitization, it can often take 100s of hours. We’re not kidding. And, it can take even longer when Artists don’t have team members that are available to work on a project full time. And really, what assistant, manager, or tour manager really has time to work on a project like this full time when they already have a full time job? The answer: NONE OF THEM.
We’ve seen this challenge first hand. In fact, we’ve experienced it while working on Artist collections. And the truth is, it takes a lot of time and it’s a lot of work. It’s not impossible to go it alone, but it’s very challenging to complete an inventory when you are juggling different hats at the same time. Especially when an Artist has other projects and professional goals that are more important or time sensitive.
In these situations, the inventory always takes the back burner because it has to. And then when you need it, it’s not complete. The process is drawn out over time, and a week becomes a month, and a month becomes two months, and so forth. It’s not because you don’t want to finish it. You do! It’s because 1). There’s no time, and 2). You’re on the other side of the world working on something else, and 3). There’s no time. Did we mention there’s no time?
So, you can see the dilemma this can present. In addition to the 100s of hours spent organizing and cataloguing a collection, there are often many $1,000s of dollars spent on expenses traveling to/from a collection location over the course of the project. That is because the process is drawn out and only worked on intermittently when there are gaps in the calendar or the schedule is a little “less busy.” As you can see - this can not only eat up paid valuable time, but it can also become unnecessarily costly in expenses.
Now think about what would happen if you had the opportunity to solve this problem and catalogue your collection. On a very basic level, it would expedite collection accessibility, and aid you on the road to organizational and inventory freedom. But that's just the beginning...
Until next month!
Your Friends,
@ My ARTIST ARCHIVE
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