for the Business of Being an Artist
From the category archives:
Artists and others can use the WordPress blogging platform as a content management system (CMS) for their WordPress sites. You can manage your portfolio, update your CV, and post upcoming shows and exhibitions by using WordPress PAGES.
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Launching a website or blog involves more than just building content, publishing it, and then telling everyone about it. You need to entice and pique the curiosity of site visitors.
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The new Art Biz Coach will be unveiled next week. Now, I want to take you on a tour of where Art Biz Coach has been over the past 8+ years and how it has evolved–design-wise. No details. Just fun pictures.
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Creating an entirely new website or blog is overwhelming. Tweaking what you already have is easier! Implementing even a couple of these 11 ideas will make a big dent in the way your website functions.
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Audio version of the post with the same name. Creating an entirely new website or blog is overwhelming. Tweaking what you already have is easier! Implementing even a couple of these 11 ideas will make a big dent in the way your website functions.
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You can’t just build a website and wait for the traffic to pick up. You have to encourage visits consistently. Here are 15 techniques that I use to get people to click on my website. Use them to start the wheels churning.
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Audio version of the newsletter. You can’t just build a website and wait for the traffic to pick up. You have to encourage visits consistently. Here are fifteen techniques to start the wheels churning.
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It would be an error to give all of your information in a handout or email. I’m encouraging you to create a special FAQs page so that people must visit your site to get the information they want. You don’t want to turn people off. You approach it with a spirit of generosity. You’re helping them out!
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Artists who are concerned about showing older work can give it secondary links from the primary art pages on a website. If you’re proud of the work and it’s still for sale, there’s no reason to remove it from your site, but you might not want it featured. Use descriptive categories and treat every page as if someone might land there first—before seeing the home page.
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Blogging can give your art career a big boost. It can help you become more articulate about your art, build relationships with fans and future collectors, and give you favor with search engines.But blogging isn’t for every artist. Yesterday I wrote why artists should have blogs. Today, I’m going to let some of you off the hook.
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