Art Marketing Secrets

When it comes to art marketing artists are always pressed for time. How do you open up enough hours in a day to create art and effectively market your work? Read on to learn about how to work with a Virtual Assistant.

Artists often make mistakes with their websites because they don’t stand back and see the big picture of what is really needed to promote their work. These 9 essential questions will get you moving in the right direction by focusing first on what the market is asking of you rather than your internal ideas alone.

Just yesterday I had a call from a very successful and established professional artist – a man who has two studios in different parts of the country and exhibits in multiple galleries and prestige locations including the Smithsonian. He called to discuss artist websites…

Here’s the scoop on what you need to know when designing a website to showcase your art, impress galleries, and win over collectors. Learn how to avoid the mistakes most emerging artists make when creating their online portfolio.

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.