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Some FineArtViews articles from this time last year that are worth another look: Well-Meaning Art Galleries Come to Wrong Conclusion Posted by Clint Watson on 5/29/2007 6:56:54 PM Van Rainy Hecht-Nielsen Posted by Clint Watson on 5/25/2007 10:23:12 AM [...]

It is essential for you to have a “Join Email List” link on your website. And moreover your site should manage subscriptions and un-subscriptions to that list automatically. Successful marketers know that the best strategists take their offers to the customers rather than waiting for the customers to come to them. That's why the primary goal of your web site is building your "house" email list. In fact, art marketing guru, Alyson Stanfield says that neglecting a mailing list is THE Biggest Mistake artists make when it comes to marketing. But why do I insist upon [...]

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Sometimes, when planning to write a blog post, I look at the screen and just don't know where to start or what to write. Perhaps, as an artist, you've experienced a similar feeling when starting a new artwork. A few months ago, I added a new feature to our blogging platform that lets me start and save unfinished blog posts as "drafts."  The drafts don't appear on the blog, they are just a repository of started....but unfinished ideas. This has been greatly beneficial. Now, whenever inspiration strikes, I just fire up a draft, bang out a few [...]

Some FineArtViews articles from this time last year that are worth another look: A $71 Million Dollar Fool? Posted by Clint Watson on 5/24/2007 4:21:01 PM [...]

Make sure that, on your website, your contact info is easy to find, otherwise you will likely miss out on opportunities. A magazine writer once told me that she wanted to interview a certain artist and planned to submit the piece for publication in a respected art magazine. She didn’t know the artist, so, naturally, she pulled up the artist’s web site. She scoured the site for contact information, but couldn’t find any. Finally, hidden in the bowels of the site, she found an email address and sent an email, only to have it bounce as a [...]

Dear artists, Here are some great articles we've found on the internet over the past week that are directly applicable to helping you with art, marketing, inspiration and fine living: Lori Woodward Simons Explains that There Are No Shortcuts to Great Painting: "You see, as I try desperately to paint gorgeous, final pieces from start to finish, I inevitably fall on my face about half way through the process. Not because I'm such a crummy painter, but because my mind's image of what should happen on the canvas and what ends up being there are two very different things. . . ." (Read Original >>) Empty Easel shares [...]

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