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By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

2. Blogs - What Are They and How Do They Work?

A blog is a form of online journal that allows you to write about your subject or field and solicit suggestions or comments from responsive readers. Blogs are like web pages, complete with links, graphics, sound and video if you want to present it that way. They are published by individuals as a kind of diary, journal, magazine, or independent jou alism. Today, there are millions of active blogs on the internet which are created by millions of users.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

5,068 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Selling Your Artwork Online With Etsy and Craigslist

Etsy.com has grown to be the #1 selling site for artists, crafters and jewelry makers. You can create your own store, load it full of images of your jewelry and use the Etsy selling software to take and process the orders. Just like an eBay store, you can create custom headers for your store that help brand your business and upload hundreds of items to sell.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

2,018 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Building Relationships

Social networking has become the darling of the Internet. Why? First, it is free and easy to use. Second, it humanizes your Internet experience. And third, there are so many people now members of social networking sites that it is a powerhouse of prospects and leads just waiting to take to the next level of marketing no matter what kind of business you have. Building relationships with those prospects and members is the key to getting them to visit a webstore and making a purchase.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,404 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Affiliate Marketing For Artists - People Selling Your Jewelry

An affiliate is someone who advertises your products on their website. When a visitor buys one of your pieces from them, they will get a commission. It's a bit like consignment, just online. Unlike consignment stores however, your pieces don't actually sit in the gallery, out of your hands. It's just a picture of your jewelry and a link to your store.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,349 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Twitter - The Current Trend

Twitter has taken over the hearts of millions today and if you do not know anything about it, you really want to get on the band wagon and log on to Twitter and learn about it in a matter of minutes. The 140 character message can go a long way and you will be on your way to social networking with friends, colleagues and just about anyone whom you want to follow for their tweets. It is a very fast moving and fun site be on.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,318 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Making Fans Into Customers - The Facebook Secrets

Everyone has got a Facebook account these days. It is almost obscene how much time people are spending on Facebook playing Farmville, making friends, looking for dates, printing coupons...you name it! But one group of people of Facebook have been making interesting strides in how they use the site: Artists.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,304 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Writing a Good Sales Letter

The elements of good sales copy will make or break the success of your product. You could have the greatest product in the world, but if you can't convince a website visitor to buy due to bad sales copy, you'll get nowhere. Most people's sales copy just suffer from a lack of knowledge about how to write for the web. It is far different than writing for print or a TV commercial, and lots of practice will make a ton of difference.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,300 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Beading Crafters - Making Money Beyond the Craft Show

Did you know that there is so much more to selling your jewelry at art and craft shows? Have you ever thought of making videos for YouTube and other video hosting sites that teach others to make your craft? Information products, especially ones that are instructional and teach a craft or skill, is a multi-billion dollar business. Have you noticed just how many art and craft books there are at Barnes and Nobel? It is big business! People love to watch artists demonstrate their crafts and they want to know how to do it themselves.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,284 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Google Profiles

Google has a great social network tucked away in it's machinery called Google profiles. Just like Facebook, you can make friends with tons of people just like you with the same interests and like-mindedness. These are people you want to get to know better because they could become your next customers. Google profiles provide clickable links to all of your websites, sales letters, video channels and other social sites.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,284 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Affiliate Marketing

Did you know that you could be making sales from someone else recommending your artwork to their readers? Just like an ad in a magazine, a major site could be advertising your art or art expertise to their visitors and driving traffic to your website. If those visitors buy something from you the website that recommended them would get a commission. This is called affiliate marketing and it is a great strategy for making online sales. Why? Because just a like a high readership magazine, that affiliate website may have much higher traffic than yours, especially if you are just starting out.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,280 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Your Success Through Social Networking - Five Important Sites

Social Networking is an every day phenomenon. People are participating on social networking web sites by the millions and interacting with like minded people, strangers, friends, colleagues, past friends and just about anyone. These specific sites can bring you a huge influx of people whom you can discuss and share information and ask questions without being intimidated on either side. It has already created wonders for millions of users and will surely create one for you.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,256 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Creating Extra Income Streams For Artists - Writing A Book

Writing a self-published how-to book on your craft or art could make you a ton of extra money to supplement your business. Art and craft shows are not what they used to be. Making sure you have other products such as DVD's or books can not only make you extra income, but make you the expert in your field. Using self publishing methods, you can be an author in no time without being signed by a major publisher.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,251 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Using the Flip Cam

A flip cam is a cheap and portable digital camcorder that is easy to use and easy to upload to your computer. You can order it online or from WalMart. What is great about the Flip cam is that you can take it to art and craft shows without lugging around an expensive or fragile camcorder. Why would you want to bring a camcorder to an art show? There are a number of reasons.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,223 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Building Traffic For Your Artist Website - Guest Blogging

Being a guest blogger for a high traffic blog is a quick way to not only get some traffic for yourself, but to establish your expertise in your art. As almost every blog knows, getting content for your blog posts can be hard to do. Blog owners also know that to keep their blog high in the search engine ranks and keep their readers coming back again and again, requires fresh content. Often, they look for guest posts to keep a fresh perspective going.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,206 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Opting In - Creative List Building Techniques

Building a list is one of the most important tools to market yourself on the Internet. When people visit your website, it is critical that you collect a important piece of information about the visitor before they get away and click out. Offering something for free in exchange for their email is a good practice to building a list.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,203 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Fine Artist Marketing - Creating Multiple Products

So you have been a fine artist for years. You have sold your paintings, watercolors and oils all over the country for years at galleries, art shows and charity events. But did you know you can turn almost any piece you have ever made into a postcard, t-shirt or even a coffee mug for very cheap? What kind of value would that add to you booth?r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,202 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Video Sharing Social Media

Twitter has changed the way your profile works. You can share videos from a video hosting site URL such as YouTube and when you paste the URL in your Twitter status box, it will play in the new sidebar area that they have created. In the past, the follower had to click on the URL in the tweet and be sent to YouTube to watch the video. Because of Facebook, people are now used to watching videos right in their home page or other profiles without leaving the site. Following suit, Twitter has created a similar experience for their users.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,201 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Online Marketing For Artists - Branding Your Websites With Headers

No one just has one website anymore. I remember back in the 90's when one website was all anyone could afford and it was an all inclusive, one-stop-shop for the entire business no matter how big that business was. Since then however, the invention of blogging, membership sites, social profiles, video channels, auction sites and articles sites have dictated that we have dozens of locations where our products and services can be found. With all of those places to manage, you want to try and keep your branding the same throughout.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,196 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Ebooks and Ecourses - A Smart Approach to Marketing

Writing an ebook or creating an ecourse is an easy way to make big money on the Internet. Imagine selling an ebook over and over with no cost of goods sold. What that means is there is no shipping, printing or storage space involved as with a physical book. The customer can get their product delivered instantly to their email box in a matter of minutes of their purchase. For the author, it is just a file that can be delivered again and again with no large outlay of cash.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,189 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Choosing a Great Keyword

Keywords are the lifeblood of marketing on the Internet. Keywords are how search engines find your website pages, articles or videos that bring information to the masses. Keywords are descriptive words or phrases about your, your art or your business. The more refined they are, the easier the search engines can give a searcher the exact match to what they were looking for. What are good keywords? Let's take a look. If you are a watercolor artist and you are trying to sell paintings on the Internet, good keywords would be: *Watercolor paintings *watercolor prints for sale orr

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,188 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Jewelry Makers - Ecommerce Solutions

If you are finally thinking of taking the big plunge from hobby jewelry maker or part time crafter into starting your own business on the internet...congratulations! Selling your jewelry or artwork on the Internet is a worthwhile endeavor that many people have had great success with. I know you make a quality product and have many satisfied customers, but selling on the web means having an ecommerce system in place to make it happen.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,184 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - WordPress Fun!

WordPress is the hottest blogging platform out there today. What is a blogging "platform"? That is a service that provides the tools, sites and templates to create your own blog so you can have your own website up and running in minutes. Blogging is a powerful tool for spreading information and networking with others...and it's totally free. Have you discovered the fun and profitability of blogging yet? After you read this, you will.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,180 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing - Article Submission Secrets

Article marketing is a powerful way to deliver content on the Internet. There are a large number of article sites that can get great search positioning. Articles provide searchers with fresh and up to date content that can build your business and make you an expert.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,175 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Blog Success - Tips Make Your Blog Stand Out

Blogging is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your websites, sales letters and opt-in pages. Leaving your thoughts down on the Internet on a regular basis helps build credibility for your business or service. There are millions of blogs online for every kind of subject, so how do you make sure your readers enjoy it? Follow these tips to blogging success.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,170 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Creative Genius, TIPS to Unleash Yours: Be a Life Long Learner

Ongoing learning shows us that the world is changing and that we continuously have to reinvent and rewire. When I read a book by Thomas Friedman entitled "The World is flat," I learned much about our global world and how we're all connected to one another. I was especially intrigued when he said, "You cannot remain analog in this digital world." It's true. A person who keeps learning is a person who doesn't stand still. As the years pass, we can either rewire or retire. If we wish to keep our minds alert and alive we have to continue to be active learners at every age.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,166 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Traffic Driving Techniques For Jewelry Websites

There are plenty of ways to get traffic to your website, even if things seem slow right now. Cheap banners ads on a popular jewelry website or blog, can help drive targeted traffic to your site. Some blogs get a ton of traffic on a daily basis and a banner may not be that expensive. For some blog owners, they may have never been offered an exchange like this and you can get quality advertising space for cheap.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,166 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

1. Twitter - The Current Trend

Twitter has taken over the hearts of millions today and if you do not know anything about it, you really want to get on the band wagon and log on to Twitter and learn about it in a matter of minutes. The 140 character message can go a long way and you will be on your way to social networking with friends, colleagues and just about anyone whom you want to follow for their tweets. It is a very fast moving and fun site be on.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,163 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Making Fans Into Customers - The Facebook Secrets

Everyone has got a Facebook account these days. It is almost obscene how much time people are spending on Facebook playing Farmville, making friends, looking for dates, printing coupons...you name it! But one group of people of Facebook have been making interesting strides in how they use the site: Artists.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,162 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Online Marketing Strategies For Artists - Squidoo

Squidoo is a powerful and easy source for promoting your products and services, or better yet, sending high quality traffic to your websites and blogs. How does Squidoo do this? Well, Google loves Squidoo and gives the service very high search engine positioning for its keywords. Squidoo is run and monitored by real people who limit the amount of links that you can put in a "lens" (that's what a Squidoo webpage is called). This keeps spamming from being an issue and the quality of the lenses are what search engines trust.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,159 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Beaders and Crafters - Building a List of Customers

You know that guestbook that you keep at your table during busy crafts shows? The one that people will sign to get updates, giveaways and upcoming show schedules from you? Really...you should have one of those already to build an email list and if you don't, make sure you have one from now on. Most artists don't know how to effectively market to the list they have spent time building.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,158 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Selling Your Art Online - Customer Service

Customer service on the Internet is just as important if not more so, than in real life situations. This is because there is very little personal interaction on the web as compared to a store. There should be plenty of current contact information, easy to access email forms and comment sections, satisfied customer testimonials and a "frequently asked questions" section just for starters.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,157 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - SEO Tactics

SEO, or search engine optimization, is how websites are discovered by the search engines. It consists of many different facets including keywords on the web pages, how many there are, where they are placed, are graphics are optimized, how many sites are linking to you and much more. If you want your website to get good positioning, then SEO is a must learn process. Many of the tactics can be learned and implemented by yourself with a bit of practice. It's finding a good mentor that keeps up on the changes that is really important.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,149 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Creating an Awesome Author Resource Box

This is the number one secret to getting your reader to click out from the article to your website. The author resource box is a text area describing who the author is, that is appended automatically to the end of submitted articles. Internet articles are different than ones in print. On the Internet, a needed conversion should take place...mainly a "click through" to a website. In print, the money has already been made when the magazine is purchased. On the internet, money will be made when the reader clicks out.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,147 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Google Profiles

Google has a great social network tucked away in it's machinery called Google profiles. Just like Facebook, you can make friends with tons of people just like you with the same interests and like-mindedness. These are people you want to get to know better because they could become your next customers. Google profiles provide clickable links to all of your websites, sales letters, video channels and other social sites.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,139 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Video Marketing - Making a Persuasive Video

Free hosting sites like YouTube can help drive traffic to your websites, sales letters and opt-in pages. But how do you know if the video is interesting enough to your viewers and whether it is converting into sales? Following are some simple tips to good video production will help make the connection to your viewers.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,137 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Joint Ventures

Are there any major websites that you like to frequent with education or materials or even artwork? I wonder if they have a big list of subscribers? If they are signing people up to a free giveaway or a newsletter, chances are that they could have thousands of people on their mailing list. Imagine if you could advertise to that website's mailing list with a promotion of your own be it a website launch, a new book or training video, your artwork or even personal coaching. And you sold those products to that big list and gave the website owner commissions on each sale.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,130 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Video Sales Letters

You know those old style, very long sales letters that you always see on webpages? The ones that are always trying to sell you something you don't really need? Well, those old sales letter formats are going the way of the dinosaur and you want to be better than that. After all, your artwork is a visual medium and needs to advertised in a visual way. Video sales letters are the new way of creating excitement for products and services that you are trying to sell on the web.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,125 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Google Speed Penalties

Google has announced that websites that take too long to load will be pushed further and further down the search results. Google is a business and the people who search it everyday including you, are it's customers. If a website loads too slowly the searcher will click on another result and leave the site. This makes this slow loading site less appealing to the search engine and will not give it a high search result.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,121 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

YouTube For Artists - Making Friends, Building Subscribers

YouTube is great for spreading the news about your products and services. You can represent your artwork nicely and even create training videos for people to watch. Nothing gets your name up on the search engines faster than putting up YouTube videos. But there are things you can do to increase your visibility and get more views of your videos.Just like with Facebook and other social networks, YouTube gives you the chance to make friends and build subscribers.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,118 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Video Conferencing

Do you remember that painter on PBS for years, Bob Ross? He entertained people for years and taught millions of beginning artists to be better painters. How did he do this? Because he had a TV show! It was fascinating how you could watch his paintings come alive on your screen all the while teaching exactly how he did it. Now you may not have your own TV show, but you have not only the next best thing, but possibly an even more powerful outlet for teaching your art to others. The Internet!r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,114 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Blogging For Artists - Multimedia Postings

The best way to get your art across to consumers is the make sure they see it in all the forms available. Using videos and multiple images, you can create a virtual experience for your visitors that is much like a real life art show. What do people do when they see your work in an art show? They look at it from different angles, from different light sources and from far away and close up. If it's a sculpture, they will walk around it, look from top to bottom.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,110 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Marketing For Artists - Your Own Social Network

Ning is a bit different than a social network that you join. Ning gives you the freedom to create your own social network in any topic or niche you desire and invite friends to join. You are the creator and administrator of the network and you can manage members and content. This is your chance to provide a social gathering place on the Internet for a topic that may not have a major social network of its own. As the administrator you can encourage dialogue, upload videos and advertise your products right on the site.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,106 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - How Can Forums Help?

Internet forums are not just fun and popular tools for finding information and making friends, they are great places to build your expertise and teach the world about your art. Forums are some of the first places people go when searching for information not because of the valuable resource they are, but they come up high in search engine results. This gives you, the artist and expert, a chance for real exposure to a worldwide audience of potential customers.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

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By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Slideshow Videos Article Source

A great way to show off your artwork is to make a slideshow video. A slideshow video is one where you see images moving slowly in and out of the video with maybe a soft background music playing. These videos are great for artwork because you can show off your work in the best light. These videos are often engaging for visitors as well.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,097 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Search Engine Marketing - 7 Important Things to Remember

We are all aware of the big name search engines like Google and Yahoo. We know how to use it to find any information. We say, "Just Google it" and we have tons of information at our finger tips. Through search engine marketing you are reaching your buyers directly. There are vertical market search engines which are specific to the industry. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an art and also a science. It uses words or phrases from your article, blogs or newsletter and allows search engines to find you. Once you are found, you are given the highest ranking by the search engines.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,096 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Important Traffic Sources

If you are an artist, musician or small business person looking to sell your products and services on the web, videos on free hosting sites are the way to go. How-to DVD's are one of the most profitable products to produce because of the high content and high perceived value they carry to show off your expertise. Using pieces or 'snippets' of video taken from the DVD itself and marketed and shared on YouTube, can generate a ton of traffic to your website. There are many video hosting sites that you can advantage of other than just YouTube.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,095 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Online Business Building For Artists - Ebook Sponsorship

Selling ebooks are a great way to not only make an income from the internet, they can help brand your business and help make your work into a household name. Getting the word out as an artist gives you the tools for creating demand for your work in your local area and beyond. Instructional ebooks can make you the equivalent of a best selling author if it catches on and could skyrocket your art business far beyond anything that a show or gallery could generate for you. But selling ebooks one at a time can be slow and tedious indeed.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,085 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing - Guidelines For Domain Names

It may be trivial to many to pick a domain name but it is hard for others who have never picked one. Either way it would be best to follow these guidelines for your next domain name and you're on the road to success. Always have many domain names if they are available. They can be used for your sites as well as blogs. Easy: It must be easy to say in person. Avoid "dashes" or "hyphens". People have a hard time finding them on a keyboard. Although they are allowed in a domain names, try to keep it as simple as possible.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,082 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - BlogTalkRadio

I know some artist friends of mine that are hosting their own Internet radio shows for free at BlogTalkRadio.com. You can talk about your art as a promotional tool, talk about techniques and promote your coaching services or even just talk about art appreciation. This is your show and you can talk about whatever you want.

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

1,079 views

By Alka DalalRecently published1 topic

Internet Marketing For Artists - Making A Good Opt-In Box

1. Lots of benefits near the point where the person has to make a decision to put in their email address. Opt ins haven't been a novelty for over 10 years. People are afraid you will spam them to death so you must make it extremely enticing for people to risk putting in their email address.r

Primary topic: Career Development

Career Development

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