If your website is inefficient in its use of code or images, or if it sources live content from multiple locations (ads, image libraries, off-site video, etc), you may be making life difficult for some of your potential fans using wireless or low-speed land-line connections.

That’s it – our simple AMS new years resolution for 2010! You can borrow it or take it if you want to – but if you do you have to honor the commitment. When you do everything to the best of your abilities you open the door and graduate to the next steps in your art career and your life.

2009 was a great year for us at Art Marketing Secrets and Beautiful Artist Websites! We launched our gorgeous new website (the one you’re looking at!), researched and wrote a bunch of great new articles on art marketing, selling art, artist websites, and inspiration. And, we heard back from you – your thoughts, creative and commercial dreams, experience, and inspiration! Before we look forward into 2010, here is a roundup of our best and most popular art marketing articles from 2009!

Our Christmas gift to you this holiday season is a special PDF version of our very popular article, “18 Tips To Be The Great Artist Of Your Dreams”. You can download it and pin it on your wall or noticeboard. It’s a reminder of what to focus on to make yourself great in 2010! We hope you enjoy it

One of the great secrets to success, handed down through time from the earliest sages and philosophers, is the power of three. It is one of those “magic” numbers that we can naturally focus on with ease. Three can help you build success with your art career too!

Creativity, uniqueness of vision, childhood wonder, and fine craftsmanship all find their match in this week’s featured artist, Dustin Wallace. Dustin is the real deal – pursuing his true passion in a unique medium bridging art and entertainment so that they are inseparable.

Suffering from low-traffic blues on your artist website? Your number of visitors is only limited by you! If you have a big enough imagination, are willing to think outside the box, and don’t mind some serious old-fashioned elbow-grease you can bring in a nice consistent stream of art-hungry visitors.

If you’re like most artists with a website, you started out with a dream that collectors would actually find you through search engines. But the reality for most artists is: Your website floats alone in cyberspace with almost no visitors. Want to change that? Join us for a live Webinar on Search Engine Optimization tips for Artists.

Maybe you think it’s obvious that you should register and own your own domain name. But for many artists who are newbies to the online world it just seems so much simpler to have someone else take care of it for you. Its a huge gamble with your art career to allow another party to control your domain – lets look at an example of what could happen…

I was in the midst of resizing some of Tanya’s images in Photoshop when I found myself looking into the deeply smiling eyes of Mother Teresa in Tanya’s collage, “With Great Love”. It was one of those moments when you truly connect with a great piece of art. She was smiling at me, and I was smiling back. The stress of the day melted in a moment and I found myself swept up in a symphony of rich experience.