Its been 6 months since our article, “Selling Art With Twitter – Have You Sold Any?”, in which we asked the question: Are artists genuinely selling art as a result of Twitter? Back then we had a mixed response. Now its time to ask again – is Twitter delivering effective art marketing results?

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How can Twitter help your art marketing? To get the best results you need to understand your role in the show and give a virtuoso performance! Here’s what we’ve learned so far.

As we prepared the copy for yesterday’s featured artist column it came as a blinding flash that in finding and choosing Kazuki Takizawi a classic social marketing sales process for art had been revealed to us.

Are artists genuinely selling art as a result of twitter? This has been a topic on our minds for several months since we first started with twitter. We see much sincere and engaging activity from artists sharing their philosophies, sensibilities, passions, and of course, their art. But is the online community building leading to actual sales?

Just as networking with people has ALWAYS been the key to success in any field of business (Remember the old saying NETWORK = NET WORTH), now online social networks like Twitter and Facebook allow you to expand the reach of your networking efforts beyond traditional geographical boundaries. This allows you to be a global networker in your field of interest – great news in a niched interest area like art but to be successful you need to have a strategy..

In this excellent post , Art Business blogger Barney Davey tackles that most interesting question we’ve all been wondering about: “Can I make it as a visual artist without having a Twitter and Facebook account? … And the answer is…. “Yes, but…”

Try these techniques when you promote your next art event. Whether it’s a gallery show, an open studio, or an online-event expanding your marketing to make use of social networking will help you!
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From: John Jantsch …

I participated in a webinar this morning hosted by Marketing Experiments on the topic of Twitter For Business, or to use their title, Getting beyond the “Now What?” … I felt more positive about Twitter by the end of the session – it seems like it has really valid applications in selling, marketing & branding, as well as customer service.

Since my dream of Vincent Van Gogh last week, I’ve been pondering what “true” artists from history would think of the online art marketing environment of 2009. What would they think of email, Facebook and …