We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Diamond Moore a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Diamond, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Coming up with the idea is so exciting, but then comes the hard part – executing. Too often the media ignores the execution part and goes from idea to success, skipping over the nitty, gritty details of executing in the early days. We think that’s a disservice both to the entrepreneurs who built something amazing as well as the public who isn’t getting a realistic picture of what it takes to succeed. So, we’d really appreciate if you could open up about your execution story – how did you go from idea to execution?

Lots of Lists. From the beginning I had an idea of what I wanted to do, as far as, creating my own website, figuring out all the financial requirements and etc.

There can be so much information that for months all I made were lists: Things to get done on the website, products and their costs, planning marketing.

With having a plan it made the process flow and I never felt lost because there was always a next step written close by.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I started out making art as just a hobby to release emotions. In the matter of 5 years the passion is still the same but my style has morphed in many ways.

My work now is very child like and vibrant yet still taps in on themes of healing, growing and adulthood.

When it comes to business I mostly turn my art into prints and stickers to keep them affordable and accessible.

Along with art, I also create Jewelry and recently Learned to screen print at my part-time Job.

Do you sell on your site, or do you use a platform like Amazon, Etsy, Cratejoy, etc?

I sell on my own website! From the beginning it was very important to me that I had full control of the website look, the background details like customer information and adding products.

I find the pros to be that I have full control and there’s no extra site fees like with etsy.

A con would be that when you’re having a slow month, you still have a monthly fee to cover.

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

I think the best way to grow, is to constantly put yourself and your work out there. There is no such thing as too much when it comes to sharing your craft.

I feel I got my best clients from them seeing my work and then emailing me about their projects.

I feel that also being Efficient and having a good rapport helps growth through positive word of mouth.

Contact Info:

• Website: LivingDisplay.net
• Instagram: LivingDisplay
• Other: Portfolio: Diamoore.net