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What to choose….? The ideal, I think, is probably both.  A blog for posting artwork as it becomes available for sale, or showing work in progress, and an art website for displaying your art professionally and coherently.
I’ve been looking at what artists who are successfully selling online are doing.  One strong trend is posting your [...]

If you want to sell your art you’ve got to look at who’s selling a lot of art and work out their ’secrets’, then use your findings for your own art practise.

Israeli born, Afremov creates unique landscapes, cityscapes and figures using a palette knife rather than a brush to paint.  His paintings are vivid and [...]

Well some people are despite the current economic melt down.
Art is a luxury item, so of course the majority of people will rein in their spending of luxury goods as the stream of bad news on the economy continues. 
However “people with money, always have money”, so says Dick Harrison in his excellent Podcast When the [...]

Since my post about how artist Jason Baalman uses YouTube to promote and sell his art, I’ve been pondering over the interesting concepts of how the Subtle Sell is the key with Social Media. 

On the WetCanvas forum, when queried why he didn’t have a very obvious sales pitch, Jason discussed the fact that viewers go to YouTube to [...]

It’s exciting isn’t it?….You’ve decided you want a personal web site to display your art.  You want to rush in and get started.  All you need to do is hire a web designer and……STOP!   Slow down there….take deep breaths. 
Before rushing in head first into a web design project, there are a few alarm bells that [...]

In this last article on Artists and Google AdWords I want to give you 5 secrets to help you be more successful with Google AdWords :-

Split Test Your Ads
One important tactic is to constantly have two adverts running per Ad Group, which is called ’split-testing’.  These adverts don’t need to be hugely different, as small differences in Google [...]

In my first article ‘Google AdWords to Promote your Art’ I looked at why you may want to use Google AdWords to promote your art to a larger audience.  In this second article, I will walk you through how to get started with AdWords, choose your keywords, bid on those keywords, and set your adverts up and running.

If you have ever wanted to get better search engine results for your art on the web, you may have considered using Google AdWords. These are the paid for search results that show on the right hand side of the results page of any search you do on Google.  They can also appear at the top of the results [...]

Don’t restrict yourself to selling your art at only one location i.e. your personal web site, or one online gallery.  It’s all about providing maximum opportunity for buyers to find you.   The plus side from selling at many online venues is that when a buyer does an online search on your name, to check you out, [...]

Everyone loves Free Stuff - but the reality is that while the best things in life may be free…this does not genearally include artists websites. 
We are all getting used to being able to post pictures of our art for free all over the Internet on huge web services like Facebook, Myspace, Flicker and the likes, and when it comes to [...]