Simple Art Marketing » checklist for selling art http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:21:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Do I Need A Personal Website to Sell Art? 10 of 30 http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/02/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-10-of-30/ http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/02/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-10-of-30/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:26:57 +0000 Jeremy McKay http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/?p=172 Steven Pressfield

Wrote a great book for breaking through artist blocks.  It is called The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Here is a great quote on page 22.

        “The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become habit. We don’t just put off our lives today, we put them off till ours deathbed.
        Never forget: This very moment, we can change out lives.  There never was a moment and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.  This second we can turn the table on Resistance. 
        This second, we can sit down and do out work.”

It is a great book.  The advice, and lessons it contains are priceless.  It is less than Ten bucks.  I like it so much, I will not lend it  anyone. 

Take care, Share a comment,

Talk to you soon,

Jeremy

]]> http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/02/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-10-of-30/feed/ 0 Do I Need A Personal Website to Sell Art Online 9 of 30 http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/01/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-online-9-of-30/ http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/01/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-online-9-of-30/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:13:33 +0000 Jeremy McKay http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/?p=158 Keep on being an artist.  For the last two or three days I have been working on portraits, not on blogs or marketing.  At least twice a week I take time to join in  a live drawing session or a get an online critique.  A great online teacher is Johannes Vloothuis at http://cyberartlearning.com , Johannes has a lot of knowledge, he knows how to teach and gives a great critique.  39 USD for 4 sessions.  It is worth many times that amount.  You have to keep working on your art.

Make sure you stay in touch with your blog and twitter verse at least with short notes and photos of your work in progress.  Give them a reason to keep coming back to your blog

If you care to see what I have been working on in addition to this 30 day challenge,  check out http://www.jeremymckay.com/artist.  Please leave a comment.  In the mean while, I do have 30 preloaded images for the 30 day challenge.  So I can easily drop one on the testing blog and get a paypal button and offer another master piece to the fans of my pseudonym.

]]> http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/10/01/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-online-9-of-30/feed/ 0 Do I Need A Personal Website to Sell Art? (6 of 30) http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/09/27/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-6-of-30/ http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/09/27/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-6-of-30/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:39:42 +0000 Jeremy McKay http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/?p=137 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

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