TO ALL ARTID ARTISTS :
Please be sure to send us an email to info@artid.com with a link to your blog post about upcoming art shows or exhibits. We will post it in our Member Art Shows blog so art collectors have one central place to look for information…
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I attended the opening of a new gallery space for The ICO Gallery in Chelsea, NYC last Thursday. ICO has been using ArtId for the last 6 months to look for and identify artists/artwork for exhibition in their Chelsea Gallery. The first ArtId artist to be exhibited in their gallery is Michael Durst from Cape Town. ICO is also having discussions with ArtId artist David M. Morgan for an exhibit. Here are images and an excerpt from Michael on his experience with ICO and his opening:
Hello to All!…
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We currently have 85 live listings in the ArtId eBay Store and our hits seem to be growing. As administrators of the store, we've got this nifty tool where we can see what keyword searches brought people to our eBay store listings, so I thought I'd write to let artists see exactly how people found us on eBay in the past week…
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I'm sitting in Austin, TX attending a conference on Inbound Marketing using SEO, Social Media, and Blogging .... basically hob-nobbing with the gurus of the Internet. My Goal: to make sure ArtId and all of our members' ArtId's "get found first" through all available outlets on the web. I want ArtId to be THE most effective online art marketing tool for our artist members as well as an incredible source of original art for the art buyer .
So here is Mike Volpe, VP Marketing for Hubspot , dragooning me and putting me in front of his video camera at the conference…
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Linking to web sites throughout the Internet is a good way to build traffic. Especially if you can get reciprocal links back to your website. One way Search Engines deam your rank and importance is by how many 'relavant Inbound links' your web site has. Meaning, the more people who link to your website, the better your rank when someone is looking for you on Google.
So make sure you link, link, link when you are posting a blog on ArtId. And make sure you tell everyone else you know who uses the Internet to link to your website on ArtId!
There are two ways our site recognizes something as a LIVE LINK .
1. Type in a URL. When you submit the post live, our code will automatically convert it into a live link. For example, Come see my latest work on ArtId www…
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In my next few blog posts, I want to hear your thoughts about having a personal website, belonging to art community websites, and how having an Internet presence may have helped you with marketing your work. Here are some thoughts about personal websites and why they may not be working for you.
#1 No one is marketing your web site , including you....it's just sitting alone in cyberspace and you have minimal traffic. You're asking yourself why you're spending money on this electronic business card that just sits there and looks pretty. Why can't it do more for me? That begs the question...…
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