Blogging: Choosing a Blogging Service for Your Art Blog

There’s a lot of choices in services and software to start and run your art blog including Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, LiveJournal, Squarespace and more. So what’s the best choice for your blog? The service or software you choose for your blog depends on a number of different factors including cost, features, and ease of use. Here is some information about different types of blogging services and software available and how to choose the right one for your art blog.

Blogging services vs self hosting

Email Marketing: Email Etiquette for Art Business

Despite what everyone is saying about the death of email because of social networking, email is still a critical component when it comes to marketing your work online. So are you putting your best foot forward in your emails? Or are you projecting yourself as unprofessional, amateurish, or even worse…rude in your email communications? Here are some tips to make your email communications as professional as possible.

1. Always email from your own domain- Be sure to get your own domain name, set up an email account, and send all of your emails from that domain. It looks a lot more professional than an Gmail or a Yahoo! account.

Social Networking: Why You Should NOT Use Social Networking to Promote Your Art

Twitter, Facebook, and now Google Buzz…social networking has certainly been the buzz on the internet for the past few years. If you have an online presence for your art, then you’ve no doubt heard that you need to be on at least one of these networks. Or do you? Do you HAVE to jump on the social networking bandwagon in order to promote your artwork online? In this show, I’ll talk about 5 reasons you might want to avoid using social networking to promote your artwork

Art Business: Disaster Proofing Your Art Business

Fires, floods, snowstorms, hurricanes…all of these things can be devastating to your art business. Whether the disaster or emergency is as widespread and catastrophic as a hurricane or flash flood, or whether is it’s as personally devastating as a major computer crash, illness, or house fire…any of these events can bring your art business to grinding halt if you’re not prepared for it. Here are some tips for disaster proofing your business, and some of the things you can do to prepare yourself and what you can do in the event of a disaster.