Start Building Your Online Studio Today

Posts Tagged ‘blogger’

Be a fan to have a fan.

This new pen name I am using doesn’t know anyone, but already he has 14 friends on face book.  I do not know any one but my artist associates on Imagekind, they seem to create a very supportive fan base.  I am selecting some artist I will be come fans of later this week.  10 fans a week. 10 Sincere and honest comments about the work they have posted on line.

My twitter is not going as well.  I am really trying to make it without any additional twitter tools, but I may get a few trial auto follow accounts.  More on this later.  I am not indexed on google yet.  I need more meat in my post.  I am going forward but should have at least 200 to 350 words about each post to get noticed bu the great search mechanism of the internet.  It is the end of the first week of doing this and I am pretty tired.  So initially it is hard work.  I do not think there is a way around that.  Eventually it will become easier and most of the task will become routine.  But during the build up stage the first 30 days make sure your  support system is in place to help you stay the course until you hit your objective which should be one sale and 3 ot five prints.  I know it is possible.

Just sticking with it for 30 days or how ever many days it takes will make you stand out.  Will cause people to take notice of your art.

Keep posting , keep reviewing, stay objective,  and focus on the goal

-

Jeremy

For  the next 24 hour get a 50% discount on the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/09/24/problogger-birthday-sale-for-24-hours-only-get-50-off-the-31dbbb-workbook/

Yesterday, took some time for me it was about one hour and 4o minutes to get the statement written where I was semi happy with it.  I am working through a 20 day course on improving my artist statement.  But I updated most of my profiles, and actually have two fans on Imagekind.  So we are rolling along.

Today:

• Pick one image.
• Improve its description on imagekind.
• Make a blog post about it using at least 200 words.
• Make a paypal add to cart button to offer the painting form sale in my blog.   Log in to you pay pal account it has easy to follow instructions to do this.  Place button in the html of your blog post.  Test it.
• Let your readers know about your  ImageKind galleries and offer prints using the standard ImageKind Pricing package.  Test your ImageKind links
• Set up twitterfeed so I do not have to tweet all my blog post.  Twitterfeed will automatically scan my blog and copy my post to twitter.  I go into detail about setting up twitterfeed in Social Marketing Trifecta.

The first time going through this will eat up the majority of the time I have put aside for this project, but once the system is in place, I should be able to set 7 of these post each weekend, and have blogger publish them on a daily schedule, after that I will just keep adding my new creations to the end of the que.

Let me know how it is going?

Jeremy

Not really.  You do need a web presence, which at a minimun should be a blog, and a gallery site.  And I am convinced that you can get a decent gallery system going by using Imagekind or redbubble.  Welcome to my 30 Day challenge to my self .

Goal: Come out of no where using free services, sell two original paintings and 5 prints in 30 days or less.

First I need to establish accounts using the following services:

Yahoo Email:   _____________________________________________________

Flickr (hook to Yahoo Email):  _________________________________________

Imagekind Site: ____________________________________________________

Start A Blog With a New Alias: _________________________________________

Twitter Account: __________________________________________________

Facebook: _______________________________________________________

MySpace: _______________________________________________________

Squidoo: ________________________________________________________

Paypal: _________________________________________________________

This is the check list I am starting with.  I offer it to those of you who would like to try the challenge.  You of course will not have to get new accounts for everything.  I am gettng new accounts for everything to prove a point.  When I establish my accounts, I need to fill out a planned profile.  My profiles will all be linked to a well developed artist statement.

In addition to the above you should have a body of work of 30 pieces that you believe the world will want and a killer artist statement.

Good Luck, More on this latter this evening.