June 9th, 2010

Here are some ideas to increase the traffic to your website (If you don’t do it who will?)

  • People need to know that you actually have a website. Tell them, publish your website address on everything include adding it to the signature of all your emails.  I know one gallery who’s business card has only their website address on it and nothing else. Certainly this may drive traffic to their site if only to retrieve their phone number and address. You may not want to go to that extreme but do put your website address on everything that goes out  including on the back of your paintings.
  • An artist I know keeps prospects and clients informed of new work by creating a postcard that announces new work on her website.  The postcard cover always includes her website address as well as an image of the new work. The message on the postcard back encourages her clients and prospects to visit the site. This sends the message of her continual success to her client/prospect base and brings more visitors to the site. VAAA has a great postcard printing program for their members.
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January 9th, 2010

Artbiz has compiled this short list of art shippers. I have only had the experience of using Art Packed; which was a good one and can not vouch for the others on the list.  If you have some experiences or know of a good shipper and want to share them with others please provide your comments below, share and share alike!

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October 2nd, 2009

The first thing you have to do in preparation to add content to your site is to optimize your images. Optimizing is a term used to indicate a change to a photo or a graphic, to reduce it in both visual size and file size, for use in other programs.  For use in an Artbiz website I ask clients to resize to no larger than 800px in any one direction and no larger than 100 to 120 kbs.

Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

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