Your whole career in one place: every work, every collector, every consignment and sale, with a dashboard that tells you where you stand and what’s due this week. The most talented artist in the room loses to the most organized one. This is how you become the organized one.
A Google Sheet that’s yours forever, plus a web dashboard. Free for Collective members.
A gallery asks for your CV and three bios by Friday. A collector at an opening asks what’s available and what it costs. A piece is out on consignment and you can’t remember the terms. A collector said “maybe” six months ago and you never followed up. The money owed to you is a guess. None of that is a talent problem. It’s a system problem — and a system is something you can install in an afternoon.
A Google Sheet (and Excel) you copy into your own account. Twenty-two tabs, a live dashboard that totals your real numbers, dropdowns, and color-coded sections. Synced across your devices by Google, backed up, permanently yours.
The same system as a beautiful web app at dearglory.com, saved right in your browser. A faster, prettier way to log a sale or a studio visit on your main device. Included with the system.
Your spreadsheet is your permanent home base; the web dashboard is the quick, pretty way to work day to day. Pick the one that fits how you work — most artists live in one and glance at the other.
The painYou’re busy every week but you can’t actually tell if you’re moving. The to-dos live in seven different places and nothing tells you what’s urgent.
The cure: the Dashboard counts everything for you — works sold, total in, what you’re owed, your mailing list, open applications — and a This Week panel surfaces every deadline, follow-up, and review that’s due, pulled from every tab so nothing slips.
The painA dealer asks what you have and for how much, and you’re scrolling your camera roll trying to remember sizes and prices.
The cure: one source of truth for every piece — title, year, medium, size, price, where it is, sold or available. Status colors itself so the whole list is scannable in a glance, and the Dashboard reads its counts from here.
The painA fan is not a collector. Someone loved your work, said they’d be in touch, and the trail went cold because it lived in your memory.
The cure: a real CRM — who collected what, what they spent, and when to follow up next. Overdue follow-ups turn red, and the next ones due surface on your Dashboard. Most of an artist’s income over a career comes from repeat collectors. This is where repeats are made.
The painAt tax time you’re reconstructing a year from memory and a shoebox. What you’re owed is invisible. What you actually netted is a shrug.
The cure: every dollar in and out, in real number cells that actually total. The Dashboard nets sales against expenses and shows exactly what’s still owed to you across unpaid sales, commission balances, and pending consignments. Unpaid sales flag red until they clear.
The painThe opportunity is impatient. By the time you’ve found your statement, updated your CV, and remembered which galleries you were building toward, the moment’s passed.
The cure: your statement, three bios, and a CV that writes itself from your show history — copy-paste ready. A target list of the galleries you align with and where you stand with each. An applications tracker so no deadline slips. A running press record that becomes your credibility, dated.
The painYou learn something useful, mean to act on it, and a week later it’s gone. Marketing happens in a panic or not at all.
The cure: a content calendar so posting is planned not panicked, a place to capture what you learned and the move you’re making, and a one-row-a-month tracker. Twelve rows is a visible year of progress — the clearest map you could bring into any strategy conversation.
The Operating System is included free with Building and Mastering Glory — the system plus the room that makes it work: Office Hours, GloryLab, and a strategist who’ll look at your whole picture. The tool is the map. The membership is the map and a guide.
See the CollectiveTwenty-two tabs. A live dashboard. The spreadsheet that’s yours forever and the web app that goes with it.
Questions first? Email hello@dearglory.com
Add the Exhibition Planning Workbook — the system that runs your career, plus the system that plans your next show. $39 + $49 = $88 $79 together.
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