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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]