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To Sell Art onling you need to get into a routine.  These are some minimum daily requirement.

• Keep creating
• Post a new piece of Art or A work in progress
• Create and install pay pal
• Review descriptions on ImageKind, and Flickr
• Become a fan of at least one artist

Weekly:

• Review all sites you have become a fan.
• Blog Review Sites on my blog roll
• Post work to a blog like Art and Artistry

Peddle articles:  Twice week write an article about your process, tips and steps.  More on this comming up soon

Check your progress weekly:
Twitter Followers
Facebook Followers
Flickr Fans
ImageKind Views and Coments
Analytics

Take one planned day off a week.  Think about you online stuff on the day off  but, do not work on it.  Just keep note of all the great ideas you get.

Take Care,
Jeremy

Blog – Blogger

Artist Statement: Write an artist statement, make it an evergreen post.  Sidebar, header or footer.

Post you wips:  Post your work in progress (wips).  As it goes ask for comments, get you readers involved in the creative process.  Sell originals on your.  Get a paypal account and follow a tutorial on paypal about how to add a button for purchase.  Once you have done this a few times, it will be as easy as sending an email.

Twitter (easier than sending an email)

Keep the conversation going with a twitter account, you can remind the world what you are creating.  More on twitter in Part 1 Sell Art Online With Twitter

Use Flickr or Picasa

If you are going to use Imagekind, or you think yo are going to use Imagekind use Fickr or Flickr Pro to store all the electronic copies of your art.  I recommend you use it as a make shift file ssystem/catalog for your art in Is Flickr A Social Media SIte?

Use Imagekind or Redbubble

Set up galleries to display and offer prints for sale.  If you are looking to provide high quality framed prints of your work Imagekind and RedBubble both have nice features.  A comparison between these two sites comming in Print On Demand – Part 2

Read Great Books and Blogs

Get two great books I’d Rather Be in the Studio! and The Unconventional Guide to Art and Money read them and put them to practice.
Read Art Marketing Blogs

EmptyEasel.com
Tony Moffit
Fine Art Views.com
ArtBizBlog.com

Your comments are appreciated and will help move forward the idea that an artist can take total control of their online success.

Jeremy

For Artists, a free blogging web site is a great way to get started in the on the web, a simple way to promote your work in progress, and a great adjunct to direct people to any gallery sites where you might have your work displayed for sale. A blog that is consistently updated with interesting content about you and your art, can give your other online efforts an big boost in the search engines. Blogging gives you a chance to communicate with prospective collectors. Popular blogging web sites like blogger, wordpress or movable type allow Artists to set up, host , and maintain a blog for free.

The free blogging sites can provide you with all of the tools that you need to get your blog up and running without spending any money means that you have nothing to lose by starting a blog. The fact is blogging is a web presence that you can control, update and use without a lot of outside help. By signing up with a free blogging web site, you may find it easier to get listed in search engines than you would if you were starting your own blogging website from scratch. For example, google runs the free blog hosting site blogspot and blogger. Google searches blogs on these sites often. Each entry in your blog is indexed as a new page by the search engines. This easy access to search engines can take some of the work out of promoting your blog, and can help you gain a following with a minimum of marketing effort.

Some Artist also happen to be great writters. Whether you are a great writer or someone who is really unsure or their writting ability, you should write something in every blog post and post often. A blog will help you promote an sell your art, but only if it is continually refreshed with new content. Unless you are selling still lifes about the sandwhich you had for lunch, your fans, collectors and prospective buyers may not share your facination with white or wheat.

Starting your Art blog on a free blog site is a great way to build a following before you spend any money on your blog. If and when your blog becomes popular and you are ready to take the next step and purchase your own domain, your readers will follow you to your new home. The fact that it is possible to use a free blog host like blogspost, blogger, or wordpress as a kind of incubator for your online marketing efforts. It is a way for you to begin to know your market intimately, and a way for them to see you and your art as something tangible and desirable. Having your own domain can help you make your blog feel professional, and finding a company that will host your domain is not difficult or expensive. Once your blog takes off, you will probably be able to sell enough advertising space to be able to afford to buy a domain and pay for a hosting package, and still have money left over. However, it does not make sense in most cases to invest in these glossy luxuries before you have a sizable readership.

A free blog host like blogspost, blogger, or wordpress can be used as an incubator for your online marketing efforts. It is a way for you to begin to know your market intimately, and a way for them to see you and your art as something tangible and desirable.