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I am looking to promote myself and my art. I don't have any money right now to do this though. I would like to know of different ways to do this (internet especially). When I lived in Phoenix AZ I had no problem selling or getting commissions, but now that I live in central Illinois, times are tough. All suggestions are appreciated. Thanks! You can create a free blog at blogger.com and post your promotion there. Have you heard of Google Adsense program? You can make some legitimate money if you have a blog at Blogger.com of a free website like Google pages which will allow you to publish Google Adsense. http://tashi.web.design.googlepages.com/... It's very personal and it depends on how you define a good career or business. First, set a goal for what? do you want in life. Plan what you will do to reach your goal. I always tell people this, 'You can make money if you can create website or blogs'. by providing free and good information. I'm 41 now, work from home in shorts and T-shirts and sometimes topless. I set my target as low as to make 1 dollar/page/day. I strive to create a new page for my websites everyday but I have all the freedom I need and making money 24/7 on the internet with Google Adsense and some affiliate programs. The only thing that tie me down is 'how much income I want or need'. Because the more websites and traffic I have will determine how much income I can much. Anyone who can create websites or blogs to provide lots of good information can make money from Google Adsense. Blogger.com and Google pages lets you create blogs for free and allows you to make money too. You can also post your comments here in this 2 blogs together with your business link. Please be warned! Updated 24 November 2006: Scammers can access your sim card. Please check this Hot Alert if you don't want to burn your wallet: Latest Telecommunication scam http://lost-newbie.blogspot.com/2006/10/... Be careful if you have a credit card. This is a credit card scam http://latest-info.blogspot.com/... Try the local chamber of commerce. Learn a variety of ways to market and promote yourself by checking out the site below! http://excelyourbiz.com/marketyourwebsit... This is really an excellent question as many new business people don't know how to get free publicity. First consider getting to your local newspaper publisher and ask if you can write an article that is in line with your expertise. This can be done all over the web, in print, through sponsorship at art fairs and places where you can volunteer your services, auctions, etc. Get your name out there. Obviously you must have a web site. If you don't get one. List with the search engines and even consider paying for some links if they benefit you. The major expenses come in the first year of business so use the above first. Get business cards and pass them out. Write your parents and ask them to tell the whole family what you are doing and ask them to support your efforts, You extended family too. Keep pluggin' at it and you will be heavily exposed and soon be reaping the rewards. GOOD LUCK! Hi, I too am an artist in a similar position. Five galleries went out of business leaving me out of work. This was how I was making a living. Assuming you already know the basics like decorating caf茅鈥檚 for free and the like, I will skip them. Problem is, art doesn鈥檛 sell it鈥檚 self. It needs to be sold. So unless a wait staff is mindful to sell it, your efforts will only serve to brand yourself. First change your mindset. You鈥檙e in business to collect collectors. You鈥檙e not in the business of making art. Separate being an artist from being a business person. With that mind set, start advertising for collectors. The best is business cards. Don鈥檛 order just a thousand. Order two or four thousand cards. Put one of your most popular designs on the front. Better yet, put one that鈥檚 for sale. Then pass them out to everyone you can. Gas station, grocery store, where ever you are. Make a goal to get out at least 500 per month or more. (Don鈥檛 buy the free ones, it鈥檚 unprofessional) I can recommend places that have great prices if you post me. Then start sending out press releases. They are free. If you don鈥檛 know how, I have a free link on my home page of my Speechmastery site that will give you 89 tips on how to create and make work your press releases. These will hopefully get you in front of a reporter who will want to do an article. If you do get an article, don鈥檛 ask to see it before it is published. That is in bad taste and can kill your chances at free publicity. Instead ask if they would mind if you did a fact check before it鈥檚 published. Sometimes they will say NO! Tell them that鈥檚 fine. I just know of an artist who had a story written about him and the reporter wrote 鈥渉e paints on acrylic canvases.鈥? It was unfortunate but nobody caught the transposed words that should have been 鈥淗e paints IN acrylic ON canvas.鈥?It was so embarrassing to that poor reporter since he was new to writing on the arts scene. I was the artist by the way. There you have it. One last thing. Don鈥檛 buy any marketing or PR info on the web until you have exhaustively searched. Everything you will need is free. If you don't follow this advice, then before you buy, find a few other artists who have bought and like the product first. Also, if your thinking of getting a free web site, don鈥檛. I did, it was a waste of money. Once learning how to build a site that gets organic traffic, I discovered creating an art web site that will get it鈥檚 own free traffic will be very difficult. No, make that very, very difficult. It can be done. It will be a lot of work. I just talked to another artist who was elated for hitting 3,000 total visitors to her site after several months. She is a brilliant artist and also computer savvy. Contrast this to my over 4500 unique visitors just the month of October. And even that is low. My goal is 1000 per day. If there is anyway I can help, contact me through any of my submission pages. I have lots of free places to go on the web to help with your marketing. There are quite a few of us. From this point on, you are now what鈥檚 known as a 鈥淪elf Promoting Artist.鈥?br /> Wishing you success and many happy collectors, Steeleyjon http://www.speechmastery.com/ Scroll down till you see 89 tips I used to participate in all the local art shows with my watercolors, and joined up with some local art clubs. However, the shows were sporadic, and certainly not often enough to really sell a lot. Websites are the way to go, where you can place quality photos of your work. Try this site: https://ecommbiz.net/websites.html... Once you have a website or blog to show some of your work, you might consider some inexpensive advertising such as targeted emails to known art collectors. These are major companies with offices in your city. They generally like to participate in the local art scene. For wider audiences, you might consider this silly but effective advertising medium: http://www.instantbuzz.com/r/?bryn... I've always been skeptical of free advertising, thinking that you get what you pay for. However, I was quite amazed at the results this silly little program gives. More importantly, it's free, so if you don't like it, just quit, and there's no obligation. Good luck, I hope this helps. |
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