How to get Your Business Noticed Copyright 2005 Peter Tarrida del Marmol Many people will tell you that to get your web site noticed you need to 'optimize' your site for the search engines. You are then led up a path where you have to keep changing your web site as the search engines ... "How Your Customers Find You!" The movie, "Field of Dreams", starring Kevin Costnerand James Earl Jones, made this line famous:"If you build it, they will come."That idea worked great in the movies but it is a wholedifferent ballpark when it comes to a web site or anemail campaign on ... Why Google Blog Search Matters to Your Business Copyright 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul According to Google, Google's Blog Search is "Google search technology focused on blogs". It includes search engine results specific to blogs not just in the Blogger.com community, but across the blogosphere at large. You ...
An artists guide to promotion online
There are so many avenues open to the artist in the 21st century. No longer is it essential to have the serious backing of an established gallery (although that does help). Now there are lots of new and different ways for all artists wanting to get their work 'out there' and seen by the world.
The proliferation of the internet and the increasingly integral part it plays in our lives now offers artists a platform for displaying their works to an audience far larger than that of any generation before us.
There are a number of ways an artist can promote their work online. The first and most obvious is to employ the skills of a web developer and create their very own custom website. This is probably the first thing that most people think of and its a nice idea, and if done properly can be very effective. However with so many artists competing having a website alone simply isn't enough. The 'if you build it they will come' philosophy really does not apply when it comes to websites i'm sorry to say. Getting visitors to your site can be un upward battle as many a frustrated webmaster will tell you. Building your own website can also be very costly, and their are plenty of shoddy web design companies just waiting for novices to prey on. So you have to be smart.
Whether you opt for your own website or not, promotion is the key, getting visitors to actually view your work and hopefully buy it! One great way to attractive these ellusive art loving visitors is to sign up with one of the many services out there that offer online galleries to artists, as part of a larger artistic community. These online artist communities give artists the chance to display their art to a much wider audience. Promotion on the internet is all about getting the visitors to your website, and viewing your work. You might have the most fantastic website in the world, with all the best features and great artwork, but if knowbody knows where you are, there isn't really much point. That's where online galleries really shine. Some artists feel that by exhibiting in these online galleries potential customers may be tempted away by other artists, but this is a very defeatist attitude and surely just shows insecurities in the artist if they feel their work can be outdone by others. In reality by sharing your customers you are exposing your work to a far greater audience, and that has to be a good thing.
Another fantastic benefit to online galleries in the feeling of community it can give. By it's very nature art can be very a solitary occupation. Online galleries often include forums where artists can share ideas and experiences, helping themselves and others in the process.
So whether you create your own website, or use one of the many online galleries available today, make sure you as an artist make the most of the possibilities the internet offers the artist of the 21st century.
About the author:
Tom Freeman is the founder of A Picture of Britain.com. An online artist community and gallery website for British artists and art collectors. The site offers British artists from many genres and fields of art their own online gallery and a free avenue for promoting their British art online to a huge world wide audience.
Online Promotion News
New law helps LCSO detectives target gangs online - Daily Breeze Lee County Sheriff’s detectives arrested 14 teens and adults alleged to be gang members this week as the result of a sting operation targeting the online promotion and recruitment of criminal organizations on social networking sites like myspace ...
One week of free Online Bingo! - PR Inside OnlineBingoGala is in coordination with the North Pole to keep you alert of the route Rudolf and his team, are following this year as Santa Clause is coming early. November is bringing another promotion on its third week, offering a week of free ...
Jazeera Airways launches promotion - AME Info Replication or redistribution in whole or in part is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of AME Info FZ LLC / Emap Limited. Current rating: 10% Recommendation Not recommended at all Not recommended Somewhat recommended Moderately ...
MAS: RM199 nett for travel to Singapore - Business Times Malaysia MALAYSIA Airlines(MAS) launched today its One Price, All Seats, All Flights online promotion. The airline is offering a one-way economy class fare of RM199 nett for travel on all flights from Malaysia to Singapore. MAS reduced its all-in normal fares ...
