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 Museum. …
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.
1. Decide …
We’ve been having another big discussion at Art Marketing Secrets recently – this time about the whole issue of stealing images from artist websites. While we all know that it’s true that this is a fact of life, the big …
Tanya Mikaela’s post earlier this week about an international art scam was one of our most popular recent articles and it got me thinking about some of the other perils that artists face in their careers.
Thinking that through I …
We don’t have the fastest internet connection in our office – its a 3 MBit/s DSL service. For some reason, even though Santa Monica has Verizon’s FIOS fiber-to-the-building service everywhere, our street somehow missed out. Now – whoever heard of …
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 …
Art buyers want to find you – but your website isn’t helping very much!
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 …
Do you own your own domain name for your artist website? If you don’t you’re taking a huge gamble with your art career.
Last night we received a frantic email from an artist in Mexico. She had her work displayed …
If you’ve been reading our articles recently you’ll know that we have had some harsh words to day about Flash-based websites for artists. In Are Flash Websites Good For Artists, and Big Artist Website Mistake #3, we expanded …
This morning I was pondering the many important elements required to make a successful artist. It’s exhilarating – or completely daunting – depending on whether you are in a “glass is half full” or “empty” frame of mind. One thing …