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Ceramic artist Karen Singer developed a business model serving a niche market and is expanding into new sectors. We spoke about her strategy and insights for other artists.     AS:   You built a business serving a specific niche market, to recognize donor contributions. How did you do that? KS:   Early on, I had a couple friends who worked in fundraising. I had made tiles that depicted building facades and these friends told me that fundraising professionals were always looking for gifts for donors that had a personal connection. Thus, the idea of doing a tile of a specific building on a campus came into being. We then explored conferences for fundraisers and started calling fundraising professionals. This expanded into creating gigantic ceramic tile murals that create a portrait of each client’s (frequently a hospital, university, private school, or retirement community) core mission and identity. We have made murals as large as 60 feet wide x 10 feet tall. ...

How to get back to your sleep schedule, to help kids be successful at school! As summer comes to a close and we prepare our children to head back to school we’ll load their backpacks with crayons, pencils and notebooks.  As you get your little one prepared for the upcoming school year, don’t forget about one back to school necessity that is often overlooked: Healthy sleep is essential for back to school success.   Children need sleep in order to learn at school.   It’s during the REM component of the sleep cycle that little minds solidify the learning of the previous day.  Memory consolidation also happens during sleep which means it’s much more difficult to file away new knowledge without a good night’s sleep.  On top of all that, children who are sleep deprived are more likely to be inattentive and forgetful at school. OUR LATEST VIDEOS Children need sleep in order to behave appropriately at school. MRI studies have shown that when people a...