Tips for Independent Artists - Other part 2

Equipment You should always try and work out what equipment can be purchased and maintained as part of your business, computers, printers, but also equipment you need for your practice, instruments, staging, props, costumes, set pieces, tents, rigging gear, lighting, sound, the list goes on. • What do you own? Where do you store it? Does this cost you money? How regularly? • Do you still need all of those items? Can you approach a funded organisation for storage? • When do things need to be maintained and what does that cost? • Can you work out a network of artists to share equipment with? • When did you last back up your computer? Phone? Anything else tech based that needs maintenance?