Simple Art Marketing » do what you love 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 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.

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Daily Minimum Requirements

  • Review and update descriptions on Imagekind and Flickr
  • Post an image, paypal button and story on my blog.  If I am in auto post mode review current post and next day post.
  • Tweet something.  Your work in progress whatever.

Daily Measurements

  • Google Analytics — Traffic Check
  • Twitter Followers  — Keep track
  • Blog followers
  • Imagekind fans

Stats

Twitter followers: 7

Imagekind fans: 2

Blog Stats: <– where are these and how to make sure we are using them correctly

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Take Care,

Jeremy

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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

]]> http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/09/23/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-3-of-30/feed/ 0 Do I Need A Personal Website to Sell Art? (2 of 30) http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-2-of-30/ http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/2009/09/22/do-i-need-a-personal-website-to-sell-art-2-of-30/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:08 +0000 Jeremy McKay http://www.simpleartmarketing.com/blog/?p=113 Yesterday, It took about 40 minutes to set up those sites.  That was just login in and securing the same name for all those spaces.  Today is actually a little more time consuming, but necessary.

1. Continue to work on your art.  As you produce get some digital photos or even videos of what you are doing?  They will make great post to the blog or as works in progress on one of the forums.

2.  Write your artist statement and get it posted to all you profiles.  This should be what you are producing, what you will be producing and what you want the viewer to appreciate about your artwork.  It takes time to produce a great artist statement.  And  you should revisit the statement as you are exposed to other artist statement.  Alyson Stanfield offers a great course to help you develop your artist statement.  For now you need to develop an initial and consistent statement to add to all you profiles and also to make as you first blog post.  Some points from Alyson’s Book your statement is about you, your work, where you are heading.  She also points out that this is not a biography.  There are some other great gems in her  book I’d Rather Be in the Studio!

3. Gather your body of work get some great high quality pictures of your pictures. Post them to your flickr account.  See my post on Is Flickr A Social Media Site? Start cataloging you work on Flickr  at least one good description done on the work you plan on posting to your blog first.  Work on the other pieces as much as you can.

You are an artist, this is your work.

Leave comments if you agree, disagree, have a question, or something to add.

Take Good Care of Yourself,

Jeremy

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