We at FineArtViews encourage you to learn more about the following artists: James Otto, Heather Craft, Diann Haist [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had Clint Watson (Founder of FASO) and art critic Brian Sherwin select artwork that has been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had Carrie Turner (Editor of FineArtViews) and Clint Watson (Founder of FASO) select artwork that has been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had Carrie Turner (Editor of FineArtViews) and Clint Watson (Founder of FASO) select artwork that has been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

I reply to the artists whose works I particularly enjoy and ask them if they have an email newsletter and let them know that I'd like to be on it. And even when I go to the trouble to beg these artists to add me to a newsletter list... they don't. I have yet to receive even one newsletter from any artist in this group. [4] Multiply that mistake dozens of times over and you're costing yourself, over your career's lifetime, thousands of dollars in sales (if not more). Make this mistake enough times and perhaps it will even cost you an art career at all. [...]

This downturn is real and some sobering and tragic stories have come out of it. But many people are still refusing to acknowledge that we're in a "new normal." Now I certainly don't mean to minimize anyone's difficulties, but for many smart, talented, able-bodied folks, if they would actually accept this as the new normal and be willing to make the necessary changes, they could continue to thrive. While the economy is sluggish, it's still a huge, huge, huge, innovative 15 trillion dollar economy and you are entitled to your piece of it. [...]

Clint Watson, founder of www.faso.com, has selected three works of art featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

What all of these different rendering engines mean is that the only way to be sure your email newsletter looks correct is to stick to a small, safe subset of HTML and then to rigorously test each design in every major email program...and different versions of those programs...and with images blocked...and with images enabled. One option for artists would be to pay a designer to design your email designs and test them in all of these email programs. Then you could use the same design over and over, being careful to only change your content and none of the HTML itself. Like I said before, it's a quagmire. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

This article is not to tell you that you should lower your prices...nor is it telling you not to raise your prices. But I sometimes meet artists who feel that they made a mistake in their pricing and wish to lower prices but don't because of the old "never lower prices rule." This post is for those artists. [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

Nobody can "do" you, better than you. And that's an amazing gift. Take inspiration from your "idols" and then embrace your own magic and share it with us. [...]

So here's something that surprises me: I see some other artist website services recommending you use their software for your blogging solution, but, for their own company blogs, they use Wordpress or Blogger. That should tell you something. How do they find the pain points? How do they know what to fix? [1] Why don't they think their own software is good enough for their own use? [2] [...]

For this round of Staff Picks we had three staff members select images that have been featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

The question you need to answer is this: are you having fun playing with the 20% on Facebook, while ignoring the much larger network of people you can reach via the "dark social network?" [...]

There are many people out there selling courses, doing webinars, and pushing products that teach artists how to do SEO. Many artists see it as a path to the promised land of "traffic" and sales. I can see why: for those of us who did business in a world before Google, the idea is enticing... set everything up "correctly" and watch a steady stream of customers come to your site. But, unfortunately, for most artists, that path won't work. [...]

I've often seen masterful works by "amateurs" and truly horrible schlock by "professionals." In fact, I don't think an artist can achieve true mastery without working for the simple love of creating... as amateurs do. I've occasionally met those who are in it mostly for money and their work is usually... lacking. [...]

The things we focus on get bigger and more important in our lives, as if they gain energy from the attention we give them. Those are the things we think about. The things we fix. The things we worry about. The things we improve. I ask again, what are you focusing on? [...]

A common objection I often hear from artists is that they don't have an email newsletter list so who, exactly, are they supposed to send the email newsletters to? Many artists are simply convinced they don't have anyone to send to. But I don't think that's true. [...]

Put on your thinking cap, I'm sure you can think of something more interesting than "check out my art". Your bottom line will thank you for it. [...]

After you've generated your xml sitemap, you have to let Google know about it. I'll cover that in another installment, however as a side note for FASO customers - you don't have to worry about submitting your sitemap to Google, we automatically create and submit your xml sitemaps for you. So the bottom line is (for FASO customers), you don't have to do anything to take advantage of xml sitemaps! [...]

Clint Watson, founder of www.faso.com, has selected three works of art featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

Clint Watson, founder of www.faso.com, has selected three works of art featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

Find your back road. The one where your kindred souls travel. And then sell them the "Best Artwork on the Planet." [...]

Who are your 20 people? If you don't know who they are, well, you should, and you've got some work to do. [...]

Clint Watson, founder of www.faso.com, has selected three works of art featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. [...]

Clint Watson, founder of www.faso.com, has selected three works of art featured on the FASO Daily Art Show. We at FineArtViews encourage you to learn more about these artists. [...]

Nobody will visit your website until they know it exists. So you have to tell people, repeatedly, about it. And email is the simplest, most effective way you can put yourself into one of the “big three” places that most people check every day. [...]

Eventually, FineArtViews grew up, attracted better writers, moved to its own professional domain, and now, everything is right with the world...except one thing...I no longer have a place to offer my own, raw, less-polished musings about the art world. [...]

I can't give you any better advice on how to market and sell your art than Seth's last sentence, "When in doubt, when your (art)* marketing isn't working, the answer is easy: go one circle in." [...]

You don't need reality TV OR a virtual farm -- art is (or should be) your reality. Live it. [...]

Looking back at FineArtViews (FAV) articles from 2011 shows that debate about art is alive and well within the FASO community. [...]

I found the process valuable as it made me write down, in one place, a lot of information I had scattered across our blog posts and in my head. Since we don't know how much of the information will be used in the actual article, the interviewer, John Parks, kindly gave me permission to post my answers here even before the article is published. I've cleaned up the raw answers I sent him (there was a deadline) and expanded a bit upon them. I hope you find some useful information in them. [...]

please remember, if the world loses a single work of art you could have produced because you got sucked into playing Farmville, well, that would be, quite frankly, tragic. [...]

please don't characterize this post as me telling you not to use Facebook. [2] If it adds value to your life, use it. In your marketing, just don't forget all the people who don't. They aren't second class buyers and might just be first class ones. [...]